Why does everyone get so incredibly angry and defensive when it comes to Christians ?

Question

They say we " push their beliefs on other people!!"

I reply : What's the problem? You feel threatened by the competition? I think you would be surprised at how little Christians push their beliefs. Everyone has tunnel vision. You see the screaming, redfaced TV evangelist waving his Bible and screeching about Hell. You see the women sitting outside the abortion clinics screaming at the poor girls that go in and come out, throwing **** on them and making them feel like dirt. But those are individuals with messed up minds. They do not represent the whole religion. You don't see the millions of people that are sitting silently at home reading their Bibles and minding their own business.

They say: "Their opinions and statements are extreme, offensive, and irrational!!"

What do you deem extreme, offensive, and irrational? Any opinion that contradicts yours? Any opinion that goes against the convictions of the majority? Please, people, have some individuality.

Answer 1

Yes !!! I agree with you. I'm not offended by atheists or whatever, even though some of the questions don't represent true inquiring questions.

Answer 2

Personally, I am touched when a Christian talks to me about their religion and beliefs. Even when they try to explain that I need to accept Jesus as my saviour in order to be saved.

I know that Christians who really believe are motivated by their love of others to help people that they feel are truly destined for hell. I think that their desire to be inclusive rather than exclusive is very kind.

I think the negative recations you are getting are from people who are rejecting the notion of eternal damnation. I think they find that offensive and are probably offended that there are people that believe they are going there based soley on their philisophical choices. Even if they practice kindness in their lives.

I personally think that Christians who faithfully practice will go to heaven. I also believe that there are many other paths to the top of the mountain and that a life of love and kindness will lead one towards God. That's most likely where you and I disagree.

I think the irrational, extreme and offensive parts of any religious organization are manifested in violence towards "non-believers". However, I'm sure you'd agree with that. There will always be people who use religious organizations to forward their own nasty agendas.

If you're a Christian, I think that's great. Stay true to your faith I believe in you. I don't think there's anything wrong with discussing your religious beliefs.

Answer 3

This is hard for you to understand because, well, you're a Christian. When someone answers someone else's religious question with a Bible verse, you have no problem with that, because you believe in the Bible. And when a religious question is answered with "Our one true God came down to Earth in the form of Jesus Christ because of our sins" ... you don't have a problem with that either, because that's what you think, too.

But what if the majority of the people on this forum were Muslims? What if you asked a question about religion and everyone answered with passages from the Quran? What if people insisted that you accept Muhammed and Allah as the truth? It doesn't matter if they do it lovingly or not; it would irritate you after a while, because you're not Muslim and you just don't believe in that, and you don't want to hear the Quran being talked about as truth.

I say this with no disrespect intended, but the hardest concept for you, as a Christian, to grasp is that nonreligious people don't want to hear about the Bible. You might think that the Bible is the unmatchable, unquestionable, number-one resource for all of life's answers, and that's great. But not everyone feels that way! And when you or any other Christian brings up a Bible verse in a discussion with a nonreligious person, or tries to tell them that Jesus Christ came down to the Earth and rose from the dead and all of that... you might think that you're doing a good deed by spreading the word of Christ, but what you're doing is annoying the hell out of them. They don't believe what you believe, simple as that. Again, think about a large group of people trying to tell you that the Quran is fact. It really doesn't take long to get angry when you're hearing that over and over.

This is a very, very Christian nation. Christianity, even though it doesn't seem that way from your perspective, is everywhere. But with all due respect, I think that if Islam were everywhere instead of Christianity, you'd feel a lot like we feel, too.

Answer 4

Competition? LOL. If that's the way you think of God or religion, then you have some serious issues...

And...aren't you pushing your beliefs right now with this question?

Furthermore, with a LONG history of crusading, torturing, killing, bombing clinics, etc.--doesn't it make perfect sense that people are a little wary of your beliefs? After all, the MUSLIMS only blew up a few buildings and people seem to think it's alright to perceive THEM as "evil". (I smell a double standard here....)

Answer 5

Who are Bush's biggest supporters? Who wants to write bigotry into the United States Constitution? Who wants US soldiers to die in a war which makes no sense, which we can't win, which had no connection to terrorists? Who tries to legislate what a woman can do with her own womb? Who wants to make it legal to heinously torture suspected enemies and lock them away without giving them any chance to defend themselves?

Not all Christians but a good majority of them who let the fundamental extremists infringe upon the rights of other Americans and drag our country into the dark ages.

This isn't anger I'm expressing; it's deep sorrow that our country is being destroyed by these people who in actual reality bear no resemblance whatsoever to Jesus Christ or his teachings.

Answer 6

How about the "christian" supervisor at my former job who told me in front of my co workers that I was going to hell when he found out I am a pagan? How about my former next door neighbors, who threw trash in my yard and defaced my outdoor sacred space in my own back yard because it offended them?
Those are people I deal with every day, and they seem quite normal to the people around them. They don't seem extreme, offensive, and irrational, to most people at all.
Those people give Christianity a bad rep and they are everyday folks. Please explain them to me.

Thanks.

Answer 7

impressive on. once I study something like that, it jogs my memory that there are Christians accessible who're extremely sturdy and form human beings. no longer all of them are the vitriolic narrow-minded little hate-mongers we see so in many situations on R&S. reading Rachel's postings jogs my memory of that too. It makes me conscious that i could desire to be extra unsleeping of warding off generalizations so i will teach suitable recognize to the human beings who prepare Christianity as a healthful expression of spirituality extremely than a motor vehicle for intolerence and condescention. thank you for sharing this.

Answer 8

my dad always said, " I'd rather see a good sermon, than hear
one. " there were many times when my dad would help others without their knowing who had done a good deed. dad was a quiet type never shouting words at anyone as he believed " actions speak louder than words. " we all have our ways to promote our personal Religious Belief System and this was dad's.

Answer 9

I don't think all christians push their beliefs on others, I just get tired of all the (greater than thou assholes) that think their way is the only way to god

Answer 10

Christians are "The salt of the earth". I would expect some people to get a little salty when dealing with Christians. If people didn't get upset, then Christians lost their saltiness!