It seems the religious catagory unlike the other sections of Q&A has become a place where people don't feel the need to restrain themselves. The questions are no longer questions but are excuses to attack. That is ashame. since so much could be learned from both sides. I personally would enjoy learning and having respectful disagreements with opposing views. If more people would stop answering and responding to these out landish remarks, maybe they would get tired of posting rude questions. I personally have lost hope and interest in this catagory. Please give me a response or point of view that would help me to see this different.
2006-09-27 17:45:35 · 8 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
People shouldn't feel the need to restrain themselves as this is a forum for discovery of truths that transcend limitations imposed by religions or society.
If you give up answering and asking, you let them win by making their voice louder than yours, and by looking through the words of others, no matter how painful, you can actually learn things you did not know and find ways to consider others, even ones with opposing viewpoints, as equal.
I posted a question earlier, and some people believed it was a direct attack on one religion because they are of that religion and had heard of the connections to what I was asking, and they chose to not read my whole question and missed my point, also robbing me of the ability to see how open minded they actually are.
I think as long as they answer your question when you ask it, even if they answer it in a way that angers you, they may give you more knowledge and help you. I think as long as they ask questions that anger you, you can find out exactly why they anger you, probe that region of yourself until you find out what is hurting, and fix it so it is stronger and doesn't hurt anymore. Learn more facts so when they attack you in that manner it shows how ignorant they are. Make your mind bulletproof in a way that lets things you don't know in and keeps things you know are wrong from hurting you.
I am a believer, but I post as if I am not so I can get more information about what keeps us apart.
2006-09-27 17:50:17 · answer #1 · answered by AmbulotOdd 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist. I have a really great friend that is a believer. We've had some awesome conversations. I respect and admire him. He's what I would consider a moderate Christian (not "conservative", but definitely not "liberal" either). He has gay friends, and supports civil unions for gays that would give them legal status, but he doesn't want gay unions to be called marriage. He thinks "macro evolution" doesn't happen without God's intervention, but full accepts micro evolution. I think he's wrong, but we agree to disagree. He fully accepts a lot of other science, such as the Big Bang theory, quantum mechanics, etc. He volunteers a lot of his time helping others (troubled kids, migrant workers, etc.). He's republican, and I'm democrat, but we both dislike this administration and we agree on a lot of specific issues. In all of our conversations about religion, he never once tried to conver me, or implied in any way that I would go to hell for my beliefs. Most importantly, he fully supports the separation of church and state.
If all Christians were like him, then there would be far less Christian bashing.
2006-09-28 01:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by Jim L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem isn't that people don't restrain themselves; it's the absolute rigidity with which they hold their ideas. Ideas are just that: ideas, mental representations of what we experience. People confuse ideas with reality. They also confuse ideas with themselves: I AM an atheist, I AM a Christian, I AM a Muslim.
When you say you're losing hope in this category, remember that this kind of thing isn't isolated to Y!A. It goes on in real life, too, where, instead of reporting or typing hateful messages, people kill each other.
2006-09-28 00:58:45 · answer #3 · answered by RabidBunyip 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Given the fact you are a Level 1, on what do you base the claim that Y!A's has become anything?
Y!A's is pretty much the same as it was when I first began participating over 7,000 answers ago.
If you don't like a question, don't respond to it. But, whining about the content is pointless since no one is going to listen to you.
2006-09-28 01:08:04 · answer #4 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Actually the one thing I do get out of this catagory, and politics and sometimes society, is a much thicker skin. So, in a way it's a good thing.
2006-09-28 00:50:50 · answer #5 · answered by niwriffej 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have learned to just skip over those type of posts. I do learn from my visits here but when it gets under my skin, I take a break and visit again later.
Blessings )O(
2006-09-28 00:49:23 · answer #6 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Wish I could help you to see this differently. ... but sadly I don't spend much time here anymore either, for the same reasons you have stated.
2006-09-28 00:48:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
people have been bickering over their beliefs long before yahoo answers came along.
Think of it has a more civilized way then burning people or dunking them or throwning them into arenas to figh to the death
2006-09-28 00:51:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋