I'm an atheist, but I sometimes feel sorry for Christians who are clinging to their myths. They need something to believe in and they want to think that when they die they'll live forever. It's sad that we want to take this away from them, but they need to know the truth. Also, it takes these thoughts out of my mind when I think how they outlaw stem cell research and try to outlaw abortion. My parents are getting older and they are Christians. I make sure not to talk to them about their faith because it would just serve to make them sad and resentful of me. Anyone else feel sorry for the religious sometimes?
2006-10-01 18:07:50 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you want to see something really sad, watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZ0IMayCO4
2006-10-01 18:16:59 · update #1
wow....this is a serious video and I'm sorry that this is happening in the young mans life....but as I watched this....I cried and felt for both him and his parents....somewhere along the line someone stopped talking and the other one let it keep going on.....we are all human and fail all the time in our relationships...but what is sad is when one rejects a loving God who had nothing to do with them separating in relationship....but just so happens to be a way to get some sympathy from the one your heart really longs to have stop rejecting you......Jesus isn't the one who turned his back on you....your Mom and you have a problem and you need to work it out ...but Jesus loves you, never stopped and is very real....he is not a game piece that you can take off the board when you feel like not playing any longer in the game and then put him back on the board when it is convenient for you.....he is always there waiting for you...but real relationship with him comes when you trust in him to help you heal the relationship with your mom and work things out in your life......don't reject the one that will never reject you...for hell like it or not is a very real place and you need not enter into its gates...for you really know the truth...but you reject it out of hurt from your mom....at least that is the way it seems....I mean you post all these questions on here so hateful to chrisitans but then I see you answer another question by a muslim that you defended us.....it isnt God you are mad at ...its your mom...stop blaming him and work it out with her...and dont feel sorry for us chrisitians we know in whom we trust and he has never let us down.....I pray you let him show you who he is too.
2006-10-01 20:24:52 · answer #1 · answered by shiningon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! I don't feel sorry for the religious people. My parent's are also Christians.....it serves their need to believe in that type of tradition.
I'm grateful that my parent's taught me about God and Jesus and the trinity and they made me read the Bible. I learned a lot from their faith in Christianity. I have chosen a different path.
It is enough that they don't question how they can condone the Santa Clause myth, on the same day that they worship their Saviour, Jesus Christ....they cannot see the hypocrisy in their own actions....while they threaten those of us who do not believe in their choices with "hell".
No! I don't feel sorry for them....they can live their lives as they choose.
2006-10-01 18:23:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Carl Sagan reported that "For me, it quite is lots extra desirable to attraction to close the Universe because it is than to persist in fantasy, in spite of the undeniable fact that pleasant and reassuring." Is it incorrect for an atheist communicate what he/she thinks is sweet? As an atheist, I stay for on the instant, not for worry of punishment or desire of advantages in some afterlife. existence is not any much less eye-catching. the international is not any much less awe inspiring. What i've got faith finally only comes right down to the chilly confusing data (and doubtless purely somewhat of introspection). what number constructive religions are there in the international, all in keeping with not something extra desirable than faith? If there's a God, i think of he'd desire us to apply the awesome minds he's given us to look on the international and ask some questions instead of only blindly following the convictions we've been raised to love. it is that some atheists act egotistically; even awesome men like Richard Dawkins would be obnoxiously boastful. yet as George Santayana reported "to sentence egoism intolerantly is to share it." attempt analyzing some Carl Sagan a while. you will not detect a stronger guy in any mosque or cathedral on earth.
2016-10-18 08:17:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that we all believe in something, it seems to me that atheist are just a bit confused in what it is that they do believe in. I understand that many people chose not to believe in a higher power in a christain way, yet in the bottom of everyones soul there are some fundamnetal beliefs. Is live realing meaningless and purposeless for antheisist. If you are a true atheist God simply does not exist for you. You where created by an unexplainable accident through the collections of random elements in a unverse that came from nowhere. The Universe that was alway in existence that was from the beginning and God know how it came to be.
Hmmm.. sounds like there is more to exixstance than just nothingness. Nothingness is loneliness.
But if God does not exist, life is empty, the future is empty. And if God exists, everything changes, life is light, our future is light and we have guidance for how to live. Therefore, believing constitutes the fundamental orientation of our life. To believe, to say: "Yes, I believe that you are God, I believe that you are present among us in the Incarnate Son", gives my life a direction, impels me to be attached to God, to unite with God and so to find my dwelling place, and the way to live. "Those who believe are never alone".
Many people gathered for a celebration of faith. But the question immediately arises: What do we actually believe?
Once we realize this, two things become clear. First, faith is simple. We believe in God - in God, who is the Beginning and End of human life. We believe in a God who enters into a relationship with us human beings, who is our origin and our future. Consequently, faith is, always and inseparably, hope: the certainty that we have a future and will not end up as nothing. And faith is love, since God's love is "contagious". This is the first thing: we simply believe in God, and this brings with it hope and love.
We believe in God. This is a fundamental decision on our part. But again the question has to be asked: is this still possible today? Is it reasonable? From the Enlightenment on, science, at least in part, has applied itself to seeking an explanation of the world in which God would be unnecessary. And if this were so, he would also become unnecessary in our lives. But whenever the attempt seemed to be nearing success - inevitably it would become clear: something is missing from the equation! When God is subtracted, something doesn't add up for man, the world, the whole universe. So we end up with two alternatives. What came first? Creative Reason, the Creator Spirit who makes all things and gives them growth, or Unreason, which, lacking any meaning, yet somehow brings forth a mathematically ordered cosmos, as well as man and his reason. The latter, however, would then be nothing more than a chance result of evolution and thus, in the end, equally meaningless. As Christians, we say: "I believe in God the Father, the Creator of heaven and earth" -I believe in the Creator Spirit. We believe that at the beginning of everything is the eternal Word, with Reason and not Unreason. With this faith we have no reason to hide, no fear of ending up in a dead end. We rejoice that we can know God!
I am not sure which is sad, living a life without belief or hope and love. Or believing in a life with a God who loves us and waits for us. In the end we will know who is right or wrong. It would be scarey if you standing on the wrong side and this would be very sad.
2006-10-01 20:07:13 · answer #4 · answered by Peace 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not sorry for myself nor any of the saved souls in the world. And I praise God for your parents salvation.
I dont feel sorry for you either, because you are just blinded by scales in your eyes and do not see the truth and need to be set free.
Now that you have alerted us answerers about your situation, rest assure we will pray for your salvation too, and trust me, your parents would have been doing the same for years now.
God Bless.
2006-10-01 18:26:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Once a teaching takes root, even if the tree is cut down, branches can spring from the roots. You'd have to use like agent orange of athiesm to get rid of people's faith. and even so, lots of seeds hide in the poisonous ground, waiting for the rain to wash it clean. The amount of agent orange in proportion to rain...well, no contest, dude.
2006-10-01 18:22:59 · answer #6 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not feel sorry for the religious. I respect you for letting your parents hold onto what they believe because it makes them happy and that is what counts. Sometimes people need to have that guidance to stay on the right path and if it works for them than so be it. To each is own I say. Do not judge me for I will not judge you.
2006-10-01 18:15:55 · answer #7 · answered by Delores B 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Son, I, and MANY others like me, are NOT clinging to a "myth". It is our FAITH that we "cling" to. Our faith and our belief in an UNFAILING, LOVING, and FORGIVING Saviour is what sustains us. If you avoid your parents because you think they 'resent' you because of your unbelief, I think you are very wrong. If you would talk to them, and explain how you feel, I think they would be very understanding, especially knowing how Satan tries to mislead our youth, and would, hopefully, help you back to the road of Salvation!!!
2006-10-01 18:27:29 · answer #8 · answered by Lover of GOD 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel sorry for those who see it as their mission to denegrate well-meaning people of faith because of some mental pathology namely a Superiority/ Inferiority Complex.
How pitiable a creature you are....
2006-10-01 18:11:30 · answer #9 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's very Christian of you to be so respectful of your parents feelings in their waining years.
2006-10-01 18:24:05 · answer #10 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋