Why is it a crime to share Jesus with others? Why do people get so offended? I would get offended if anyone came at me with a "holier than thou" attitude, but what about the rest of us? For me, if I'm taking the time to share the Word with you, that means I care about you and would like to spend eternity with you in heaven. Please.....can we learn to give and take things with the love in which it was given? I'm not talking about those people who talk just to hear themselves talk or to just get attention, either. I'm talking about those of us who really love the Lord.
2006-10-08 23:38:16 · 14 answers · asked by It's Been Cool 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ye are the salt of the earth. Salt preserves, but when it is rubbed
into a wound it can sting a little.
I Cr 13;8a
10-8-6
2006-10-08 23:40:57 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why the hostility?
Why is it a crime to share atheism with others? Why do people get so offended? I would get offended if anyone came at me with a "holier than thou" attitude, but what about the rest of us? For me, if I'm taking the time to share reality with you, that means I care about you . Please.....can we learn to give and take things with the love in which it was given? I'm not talking about those people who talk just to hear themselves talk or to just get attention, either. I'm talking about those of us who really love reality.
2006-10-09 06:42:09 · answer #2 · answered by eantaelor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This Jesus character you are selling has as the ultimate goal of Humanity, the end of the world. Not only should you not be respected, but because so many of you are so zealous about this goal that you may try to cause it to happen, you should be vigorously repressed. A little bit of Religion is like a little bit of syphilis, unless eradicated, it always gets worse.
2006-10-09 08:58:03 · answer #3 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To many people, including myself, what I believe spiritually is very private. To have other people telling me what I ought to believe seems rude. Proselytizing is just plain rude, frankly. There's no getting around it. People do not like being told how to live their lives, that the things they do are considered sin in your book, that if they don't get with the program they are doomed to eternal torture.
Why is this so hard for proselytizing religions to understand? It's not "sharing," it's imposing. Imagine an Islamic person laying their trip on you, and you will see what I mean.
2006-10-09 06:51:23 · answer #4 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1 It's not a crime
2 People are offended because they are simply tired of hearing about it.
3 what about the rest of you?
4 can you learn to keep it to yourselves instead of pushing it off on others that have no interest in hearing about it?
2006-10-09 06:44:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the whole problem. YOU want to share. That means YOU want to be right, have the last word and ultimately win. Tell me, have you ever, for no reason at all, helped someone without telling the rest of the world. Have you ever gone out of your way for anyone, without telling the whole world you did it. Don't preach to me honey, I don't need saving, save yourself.
2006-10-09 06:48:06 · answer #6 · answered by WAKE UP 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus came to the world healing and bringing hope and salvation and look how He was treated.
John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
2006-10-09 06:41:32 · answer #7 · answered by beckini 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sister, I totally agree with you. Though I am a Muslim, I do not respect Jesus (pbuh) any less than you do. I really sense a lot of hostility and offensive mockery in responses in general whether against Jesus, Prophet Muhammad or whatever else.
Can we respect one another?
2006-10-09 06:42:05 · answer #8 · answered by daliaadel 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The only 'crime' that I can see being perpetrated by members of nearly all modern faiths is the belief that their faith is the only true one.
If it can be understood that there is a God and if that God is as omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient as is claimed by so many of the faithful who adhere to monotheistic faiths then should not ALL faiths be accepted? If God is omniscient then shouldn't HE/SHE recognise that a Muslim (let's say) has faith in his/her own religion and should not God also recognise that faith in Allah is just another representation of faith in God and vice versa? All that is truly required for entry into the Divine Afterlife (be it Heaven, Nirvana, Stovokor, the Ellsyum Fields or Communion with the Great Spirit) is FAITH; faith in God, in Allah, in Buddha, in Satan (true Satanism, not the HollyWood B.S. that we've been forced to swallow for the past few decades but the veneration of Satan as a Fallen Angel who can demonstrate to us the value of Humility before God (see 'The Church of St Peter')), in Oneself (does not the Book say that one's body is a temple? Or that God made us in His own image?), or purely Faith in what one believes to be true. The true crime is NOT the professing of one's faith, it is having the unmitigated gall to suggest that one's own understanding of the True Faith is the only one that counts. Please, no more prosletizing!! Don't try to convert me unless I very directly and succinctly ask you to.
2006-10-09 06:57:50 · answer #9 · answered by Tim H 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We all need blassing and saving.Perhaps you could try and spread your humanity to include the whitehouse.Show them the error and wrath that awaits the ungodly
2006-10-09 06:43:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋