or the fundamentalists? They seem to live in a world constrained by so many limits. They hold them selves to impossible standards and beat themselves up when they can't make it. Every where they turn there seems to be a big NO or STOP sign. I would not live their lives for anything.
2006-09-04 05:43:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Brother Michael, I live in a Red State, I can't throw a rock without it's going through a church window. I'm surrounded by you.
2006-09-04 05:58:06 · update #1
Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism!
wow Duckphup, that's good. I may steal that.
2006-09-04 22:42:01 · update #2
Well, not sure what you mean by evangelicals exactly but I envy faith in general, the knowing (whether it's right or not), the certainty, the unburdening of it all. I envy that, but the other part of me feels sad for the people that don't see any gray in this just black and white. They automatically condemn so many people and therefor give up the opportunity to know so many wonderful and interesting people. But ignorance is bliss so for all of us agnostics we are simply stuck living by our own moral code and it's so much harder to live up to your own expectations than "gods." Watch out for the Christian backlash on that one. Calgon take me away.
2006-09-06 16:38:03 · answer #1 · answered by cptv8ing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not feel sorry for them. Yes, they hold themselves up to impossible standards, but it's not only themselves that they beat up. They can't be content with ordering their own lives about, they think they have a right to admonish everyone who isn't following in their footsteps. I find them arrogant, controlling, desperate, annoying, and eternally self-righteous. It's hard to feel sorry for a group that is so determined to insert their religious mores into all of our lives without invitation. Then, when people speak out and tell them they are tired of it all of a sudden they are being persecuted. Never mind that they use persecution as a club to hit anyone who doesn't fit their idea of a righteous believer right over the head. Hypocrisy is something they seem incapable of grasping.
2006-09-04 06:02:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but you really have to feel sorry for them when they die and in the last little glimmer of life they realise that's it, the end, No heaven, no hell, just oblivion.
Even though it might only be for a nano second, do you think they would realise they had wasted their lives and if so do you think that they may feel just the weensiest bit sorry for how they have treated us!
2006-09-04 05:48:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to feel sorry for them... now I am offended by them. I am offended by stupidity, willful ignorance and self delusion... which pretty much sums up the Abrahamic death cults of desert monotheism (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). It offends me to know that three-quarters of the population of the USA are infected with some sort of insidious mental virus that leads them to the insane certainty that the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of a bunch of ignorant Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat herders represent some kind of cosmic 'TRUTH' about fundamental aspects of existence and reality. It offends me that so many people dwell in a delusional reality consisting of an imaginary magical universe which contains a 6,000 year-old earth and heaven, a solid 'firmament' structure (the sky) separating the earth from heaven (terrarium earth), talking snakes (with legs) and donkeys, a shepherd staff that turns into an asp, demons chased out of people and into pigs, friendly spirits, evil spirits, walking on water, multiplying loaves and fishes, food falling from the sky, conception by a ghost, people raised from the dead, the sun stopping in its tracks, parting seas, people being bodily sucked up into heaven (which, by the way, lies on the 'other side' of the sky), world-wide flood that drowned the earth to a depth of 40 feet above the tallest mountain, creating people from a dust bunny and a rib, a magical tree of knowledge, god speaking from a burning bush... and ritual cannibalism, by eating god in the form of a cracker.
In a sane world, anybody running around spouting ANY of that crap, would be locked up in the State Farm for the Funny. Apparently, though, mass insanity seems to convey some sort of free pass for the loony.
It offends me that in our society, such irrational, deluded people as these are permitted to vote, hold public office, procreate, and shape the minds trusting, vulnerable children.
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"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." ~ Robert M. Pirsig
2006-09-04 06:12:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
i feel sorry for the christians who feel like they are bound by some sort of new law, instead of living in the freedom of christ.
but be careful using the term evangelical. i think you mean fundamentalist, more than evangelical.
2006-09-04 05:51:53 · answer #5 · answered by kyle s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes but not always. They are the ones who have decided to shut themselves off from others and other beliefs. It does no harm to learn about other beliefs. It is a situation they put themselves in and only they can choose to stay or leave.
2006-09-04 05:56:15 · answer #6 · answered by genaddt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not really. They choose their path and I choose mine. It's rather simple actually. I just prefer that we don't get tangled up in each other's path.
Of course, I do admire how they can just fling themselves into something. I wouldn't be able to do that. Not even for something I feel strongly about. But that's about it. I wouldn't give my life up for any of theirs.... Except... maybe a body swap? =P
2006-09-04 05:52:29 · answer #7 · answered by optimistic_pessimist1985 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree with everything you say.
BUT, the people involved don't see it that way and they certainly don't want my sympathy, so I won't bother. Unlike the fundies and evangelicals, I don't consider it my moral duty to save them from themselves. If they want to live their lives under these constraints, it's their choice. Just don't make it our laws.
2006-09-04 06:45:04 · answer #8 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I sure do feel sorry for them. I love keeping my mind open so that I can learn new things, I don't know how people can live the way they do.
2006-09-04 05:48:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I feel sorry for all religious people. They close lots of possibilities by basing their lives on an illusion.
2006-09-04 05:46:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋