2006-10-23 19:37:58 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Definitely! Because those who "truly" Believe have a relationship with God and want to be pleasing to Him. True Christians will be givers while practicing honesty, loyalty, caring, and other attributes of God as they mature more into His likeness. Those who don't believe have nothing to base their lives on....they are mostly focused on self and all that pertains to their own personal lives.
2006-10-23 19:45:33 · answer #1 · answered by HomeBody 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I see good characters and bad characters in both believers and non-believers (I assume you mean Christian believers). The Dali Lama, a non-believer by the Christian definition, has done much good, as have many other non-Christian people, religious or otherwise. Many Christians have done much good too, including Mother Theresa, Mike Propp (kindomadventures.org), and untold Christian workers both known and unknown.
Of course, many non-believers are of very poor character and have done much evil, such as Ghengis Khan and Adolf Hitler (wait, didn't he claim to be a believer?). But the same is true of many so-called believers, such as Jim Jones (the Jonestown massacre) and David Koresh.
Also, when one is discussing poor character and improprieties done in the name of religion, one must think of the more or less mainstream "believers" such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson (who has also done good works in the past) and others of the fundamentalist movement who try to force submission to their beliefs, and therefore to their authority, upon an entire society. One must also mention those in government who use them and the facade of Christianity to secure their own power and greed, including our current President and several political leaders in both parties, but mostly the Republican party, the party of so-called "family values."
2006-10-23 19:54:03 · answer #2 · answered by Don P 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes - those who believe are closed minded (for the most part), smart, intolerant, loud, unwilling to accept that there might be an answer you can't find in their book of fairy tales, are easily led, and always say bless you or jesus loves you after you insult them.
Atheists and agnostics are (for the most part) intelligent, well read, tolerant, open, more scientifically minded, opinionated, loud, not easily led, and will insult you right back if you insult them. So what's your point?
2006-10-23 20:04:25 · answer #3 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do see a certain naivety in Christians and a certain hard headed pragmatism in non-believers. People who think deeply probably aren't going to be Christians.
2006-10-23 20:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
True Christians would not be looking to judge others but pray that those who don't believe will go to heaven any way. It is not ours to judge others or throw stones, we are not without sin.
2006-10-23 20:04:14 · answer #5 · answered by marirene74 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think those on both sides of the question who think they have all the answers are actually of exactly the same character.
2006-10-23 19:42:39 · answer #6 · answered by hankthecowdog 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
if you are seeing such things, either:
1) you haven't met very many of either.
2) you are in denial of the obvious.
there are nice, stupid, ignorant, racist, generous, selfish, ... ect... of EVERY group. any attribute you could, from either side, categorically attach to either side... could be found to an even further extreme in the other side.
2006-10-23 19:42:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You should have elaborated. I can only guess that you think your character is the finest being Christian and mine is corrupt being non-Christian. If so...that is BS.
2006-10-23 19:40:28 · answer #8 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Believe in wat? their life mission yes i can see the difference certain people have faith in the things they do and other people don't
2006-10-23 19:54:50 · answer #9 · answered by good advice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beleive what dufus?
2006-10-23 19:44:13 · answer #10 · answered by Pie's_Guy 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋