Why do religions fight in front of athiests?

Question

People in mental assilimes surely don't fight so much over who which one of them is the real Nepolean or the real Elvis, why do religions feel the need? Why not just accept that you are all behind the same fence and play nicely?

Answer 1

Because religions are all buisnesses and hate competition!!

My thoughts:

Religion is broken down into 10 major religious groups: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Bahá'í Faith, Confucianism, Jainism, and Shinto. It is difficult to acknowledge any one religion as being accurate or any one God as being exact when there have been numerous throughout human history. None appears to have any greater claim to being more credible or reliable than any other. Why Islam and not Hinduism? Why Christianity and not Judaism? Why monotheism and not polytheism? Every position has had its defenders, all as devoted as those in other traditions. They can't all be right, but they can all be wrong.

Perhaps the most basic reason for not believing in God is the absence of good reasons for doing so. Once an individual gets past the bias in favor of belief they may realize something critical: the burden of support lies with those claiming that belief is rational and/or necessary. Believers fall short of meeting this burden and thus fail to provide quality reasons to accept their claims. As a consequence, those who don't already believe in God and/or who are not biased in favor of believing in God aren't given a reason to start.

Hope this helped

Answer 2

Most major hospitals were founded quite some time ago, when religion and state were more tightly intertwined. Even with the separation of church and state, the public itself was much more highly religious and devout than today. It makes sense that all those older hospitals might have religious overtones, as did monuments, universities, schools, etc. However, new hospitals are mostly secular, since non-belief is statistically connected to education, you'll find doctors and medical staff are proportionally higher athesits than in the general population. So I see you have a natural bias to believe that religion is serving the people more than the non-religious community, which is a guess on your behalf, and I find it very disappointing that you think that way. The desire to help others did not arrive from a belief in Jesus. Ancient civilizations like the Minoans in Crete the Chinese and Japanese had medics and healers, morals and a desire to help each other. Helping each other is as natural as hunger, thirst and love. I have a lot more I could say on this matter, as you have made a lot of assumptions, about athiests "crawling back to sin" and "feeling the guilt of sin". These assumptions have no meaning to me, as I have no reason to feel guilt and no "sin" to worry about. I know some types of guilt comes with religion. You were born guilty due to original sin, and need to thank god for sacraficing himself, when he posed as his son to conduct his suicide mission. Since I am free from believing in Thor, Zeus, Nepture, Isis, Allah, Buddah, Shiva, Gannish.....oh yeah....AND JESUS, I don't need to feel guilt unless I do something bad. Since I haven't you can kindly remove your biggoted thoughts about non-believers, and know next time you are being treated in a hospital the doctor is probably an atheist too.

Answer 3

Religion is a big part of the religious peoples life. If someone tries 2 prove it wrong it attacks his entire existence. Even if someone doesnt try 2 do that still he feels unsafe because religion is all about belief. The 'hit-back' is just for self defence, a primitive instinct.

Answer 4

True. Also, if religion is so great, why fight all. I thought the religion is supposed to work for you and not you work for the religion. Why do they feel the need to defend themselves.

Answer 5

But he called me a stinky first!

Answer 6

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