Why all the hate?

Question

I have been on Y answers for just a short time now and I have noticed that only one thing seems to be consistent. People attacking other people's beliefs. I just want to know, why? This question if for anyone. Atheists, why do you feel the need to attack christians and call them stupid? Christians, why do you feel the need to attack others to justify your beliefs? I am truly curious. No one is accomplishing anything exept to argue pointlessly. WHY?

I realize this has been happening outside of this website for centuries and am ashamed that it has. I guess I am just getting fed up with some of the nastyness that is happening on both sides. Although some have good intentions there are many who have nothing better to do than flame.

Answer 1

Cheers...we need to talk about ideas, not engage in personal attacks and generalizations.

Unfortunately, many people on this site are not honest about their faith or their motives. Baiting, provocative questions are commonplace here, and doesn't help anyone arrive at answers that they might need at a place in their lives...

Answer 2

Since our existence is a logical impossibility, debates about the ultimate questions are incapable of rational solution.

Religion is based on faith, not evidence and logic. Everyone believes their faith is the right one and everyone gets totally frustrated when they cannot change other people's opinions with their arguments. If the truth was that clear, there would only be one religion and everyone would belong to it.

This has been going on as long as there has been organized religion, and wars have been fought over conflicting religious beliefs for thousands of years. This isn't going to change anytime soon.

I think aetheists and agnostics feel particularly hard done by. They are trying to look at things objectively and rationally. They are in a minority in most countries. They are often shunned socially for being non-church goers. Religious people love to preach and pressure people to convert. In America it is hard to go to a meeting without being expected to pray. The people who presently run the country think God is on their side and they can do no wrong. Intolerance is growing. Fantasy is parading as science. There is a battle being waged to preserve the First Amendment, and to defend the separation of church and state, one of the pioneering achievements of the American Constitution.

In my short time on Yahoo Answers I have noticed that most non-technical questions are not genuinely open. People are not looking for answers so much as seeking reinforcement for their own beliefs and prejudices. Some are deliberately provocative and antagonistic.

I do not consider myself an aetheist or an agnostic. But I find most religious beliefs seriously flawed. And most Christians, when questioned, turn out to be quite ignorant of what the Bible actually says. Everything they understand about their religion is based on second hand knowledge of selective and often unrepresentative passages. I believe life is a constant search for truth, but one which must ultimately fail. Nonetheless, I'm enjoy the search.

Answer 3

This IS a problem, and it's been going on for millenia. This is what the Crusades were all about. It's all about people feeling insecure, or people feeling so extreme about their faith or lack thereof, that anyone who doesn't agree with their views must either be a "godless bastard", an "atheist dog", a "naive Christian" (among other insults I've seen).
As a non-extremist Lutheran believer myself, I've seen issues of Catholics inulting protestants, so this exists in-house too. I, however, am content to allow others to believe what they will, while I do the same, we all have our reasons. I will try to suggest friends and co-workers go to church if they're going through difficult times, and I have converted some people, but I will never insult someone just because they don't believe in God.

Answer 4

I think that it is good to have people openly express that they think something is good or bad. How else can they learn, grow, and change if need be.

If I call something stupid, dumb, purple, red, or blue, what I'm really doing is asking someone to correct me, or verify that what I see is what is real.

All groups religous or not are in fact 'groups'. Groups are lead by people. People are not perfect.

Religion is the concentration or prayer to stop human suffering.

Jewish people had it with nature and crooked governments. Their answer was selfish introversion.
Pre-Muslim businessmen had it with the Jews controlling trade. Their answer was blood. Curious that when the infidels are gone from an area they end up killing each other.
Catholics had it with the crooked Jewish leaders and Romans feeding people to the lions. Their answer was prayer.
The King had it with the war in his pants. His answer was condoms and another wife.
The Puriants had it with the king killing people. Their answer was America.
(That's my understanding of Western Religion.)

The King is cool w/me. Fat birthday Budda's are cool in resturants. And the Mormon (15) wives thing...if you can handle more than one wife you are more of a man than me. Amen. I am so, not worthy.

I only have a problem with Muslims chopping peoples heads off if they change religion, and 80% of New York Muslims supporting the bombing of the World Trade Center.

There's your hate thing.

Answer 5

You are so very right, It really is pain full to see how the people get inflamed with some corrupt politicians and religious leaders, and also some unhappy creatures how just live their sick wishes in yahoo with different names, and hoping that they are going to have some followers, to Hate like them, the truth is that it is not religion, because if this people how are writing so hatefully, would just study at least the three earths religions would know that they are brothers and are followers and believers of one and same God.
and as to what is happening in med east has very little to do with religion but with politic and politicians and tarriest try to link it as much as possible to religion in order to link from the reality and make more effective as long as we Hate we are not able of logical conversation, and discussion. and the problem is unsolved .
but about Y it is pain full to see the contends of discussions Shelden something with contends or intelligence, which you would expect from people leaving in must powerfully and rich country , but their is nothing but , some fanatic people from all sides with very primitive arguments with no discussion of intelligence or deep meaning . and some of them are using different names to answer the same questions, with different town.
What a pain, What a pity,
I apologize for my pour spelling, I am writing in this pages to improve my English, that is at least useful for me.

Answer 6

Right on! Not just on Y answers, in all the world.

Hate ( my belief is right, yours makes you insufferable ) is just manifested fear that comes from non-understanding, and it causes horrible things to happen ... like 9/11.

Wecome to earth and the primitives ( who are evolving slowly ) who live here. You are ahead of the curve ... congratulations!

Don't believe in attacking ... believe in understanding and love.

An honor to meet you.
Jonnie

PS my e-mail is avalible any time you want to talk.
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Answer 7

The key is being secure within yourself of what you believe, and understand that usually anything that may come across as hateful or attacking is spun out of a lack of understanding.
Good question by the way.

Answer 8

Have you ever seen the episode of friends where Ross is talking to Phobe about how she doesn't believe in evolution? And he says something like, "it's like math 1+1=2, I can't stand by and have you think that 1 + 1equals 3... or 4... or yellow."
I am personally offended by the ignorance that I see creationists professing to impressionable people.

Answer 9

True Christians don't attack questions, they simply inform others of the truth, that is, the word of God. All the attacking is due to peoples insecurities about themselves and their spirituality, or lack there of. Christians are supposed to help people realize the life changing reality of Jesus Christ. Good question, but you wont see attacks from the ones truly at peace with Jesus.

Answer 10

Human nature. That's why. Thousands of years from now, if all present scientific theory has been proven wrong and Christianity no longer exists people will still be fighting. Because we're human. It's what we do best.