I see many people saying they are bothered by people pushing Christianity on others through schools, state, etc. So, that is a political argument. It is NOT hating Christians. It is just atheist people with a democratic bent. These people would also be concerned if some other religion were dominating things in the public realm.
If I were to answer my own question, I would say that some Christians identify so closely with their religion, they think that criticism of the church is a personal attack. But I wonder what others would say to this ...
2006-09-05 05:26:31 · 15 answers · asked by jarm 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think the basic theory behind it is that Christians want to be free to raise their children in a religious environment just as atheists want to be free to raise their children in a non-religious environment. Many Christians see legislation that keeps religion out of schools and other institutions as an attack on their freedoms. It's important to view it in a historical context - there was a lot of change during that time. Religion wasn't always so strictly banned from schools. There was a lot written on it in the 1960s and 1970s. I can't remember the name of the book I read but if you search something about republicans in Orange County in the 60s/70s you might find something interesting and helpful.
Btw, there are a lot of atheists with a republican bent as well ; )
2006-09-05 05:34:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question in an easy to understand way of putting it. : )
As someone who sees it from the non-Christian side, I agree... Wanting to keep it so no group dominates is the better way to go, but these days it seems that some can't take it. They probably do see every little rejection to their wanting to dominate as hating them, when they are bringing it onto themselves and reading wrong into things...
In regard to the schools...they have special schools where their kids can be educated in a Christian environment, the rest of us don't have that. They have the choice of schools, not us, so it is really up to them to decide what kind of environment they want and pick a school for it, not MAKE a school become what they want. If they did not pick a school with the environment they wanted, then it is only their choosing to blame.
2006-09-05 05:37:08 · answer #2 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is a christian? A person who follows christ or who follows church? both are two different things....study what christ told and what church proclaims....Christ was never a christian....leave that arguement aside. Take what happens in India.
There are Christian missionary schools and colleges. They read bible, teach christianity in those schools. There are Muslim run eductional institutions. Even students of that community gets priority on admission to these religious run institutions other than looking for a religious conversion.
All I have to say to all Christians or any other religion is, assume the whole world become christians or any religion they believe. Do you think, the basic problems of poverty, unemployment, war, AIDS etc become nil? So why to waste time? the real problem is something else and let us concentrate there rather than getting few more numbers to their religion to kill and get killed....
2006-09-05 06:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by r_govardhanam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my experience (7 long years of Catholic Schools- mostly high school) Christians, especially the emphatic ones believe there are 2 types of people in this world: Christians and Non Christians. The non's only come in 2 types too: those who the christians have yet to convert, and those who are against them. This whole philosophy fits their warped lil black n white world they have to control tyrannically or else the holes will start to show in their logic and then; gasp, shock horror, n heresy, they might actually be proven wrong!!
2006-09-05 05:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Believing in god or not believing in god isn't some thing that differences in one day. regardless of the reality that some human beings do makeup their concepts from adolescence, for many folk, this is a protracted adventure that starts with asking questions and not getting sufficiently pleasing solutions, this is praying and not praying and noticing that there's no distinction interior the end result between the two situations, this is approximately slowly beginning to to believe in different issues and noticing your life would not substitute, nor are you struck via lightning. you have opened your concepts and are responsive to the data.. i'm guessing in it sluggish you will slowly end believing in god, using fact this is almost impossible to believe in some thing while each and every thing you be responsive to, each and every actuality you learn, is going against your theory. on occasion of direction, human beings nonetheless insist on believing in god regardless of each and every thing, yet this is often out of blind faith and the reality that this is greater gentle to believe than not believe. the way this maintains is as much as you.
2016-10-01 08:27:02 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what christians the people on these boards come across but classifying a group so simplistically is not fair on those of us who do have brains and can actually differentiate between the two. Perhaps the thing is not so much that these people can't differentiate but rather they don't really care?
2006-09-05 05:33:00 · answer #6 · answered by evols1dog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Generally these people are uneducated and fearful. They paint with broad brushes and demonize what is unlike them. They have very little love for themselves and even less for others so they are unwilling to open their minds and see reality.
Simply put they are afraid they would have to change and are so comfortable in their little lives they feel it would destroy them.
They are sad and are incapable or even trying to understand the differences between atheists and Christian-haters. First they would have to look inward and that is hard for them.
2006-09-05 05:32:09 · answer #7 · answered by The One Line Review Guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz some Christians are insecure morons. Just like some Muslims, some Jews, some Buddhists, some Hindus and, yes, some Atheists. It's not a question of religion, it's a question of humanity, and the dumbness it contains.
2006-09-05 05:29:52 · answer #8 · answered by Alobar 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it's hard to seperate the two groups. it is just like muslim terrorists. most/almost all muslims are peacefull, moral good people. but a few misguided nuts make most americans THINK that all muslims are terrorists.
2006-09-05 05:33:41 · answer #9 · answered by forjj 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they might see being attacked as being attacked, regardless of who is doing it.
2006-09-05 05:29:29 · answer #10 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋