2006-10-25 14:35:08 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, I understand faith.
I am devoutly religious but I am a non-Christian.
Religions other than Christianity have faith. Your question was either ignorant of or purposely insulting to those of other religions.
2006-10-26 04:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by Witchy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think about it. If you were born in China, and was raised in China, you would not be Christian either. Much of "faith" realy depends on when and where you were born.
I am practical. There is no proof of God, and I will not accept his existence until I have proof.
There is evidence supporting the Big Bang theory, as well as evolution. Yet, why do so many people believe in God, who has never given us any evidence that He exists? Jesus' followers believed he was divine 2000 years ago, but did we not believe the world was flat just 600 years ago?
If God does exist, why does He not give us a sign? The only sign we ever received was Jesus, and tales are exaggerated and changed over time. Changed, perhaps, from a tale of humor to a tale of faith.
The only things faith and religion have brought us is hope. Hope during famine, drought, hope during war, many of which are brought about by religion. However, humans cannot live without religion. Religion is a way of explaining things that cannot be eplained.
Humans desire knowledge, and if some knowledge cannot be gained, we create our own versions of it. Since life cannot be explained, we create God. The Greeks could not explain why the sun rises and sets, so they created Apollo. They could not expain why lightning occurs, so they create Zeus.
We non christians ask "why" becuase we want to know.
2006-10-25 22:03:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell yeah but if you are referring to the fact that christians are always challenged on their belief the reason is this.
Christians are the most close minded, ignorant, uneducated, naive and self absorbed individuals around. They are challenged on their 'faith" so that hopefully they would be able to realize that their faith is not "end all of all faiths" just part of many faiths that exists.
Christians need to learn to respect other peoples choices, which is very rare for a christian.
2006-10-25 21:41:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith Kills People Every Day.
Do you not know what critical thought is?
Having faith and beliefs is all well and good, but as Rufus the 13th apostle said, it's much better to have an idea. Ideas are living breathing things. Belief based on blind faith is static. And in the end, ideas makes more feel more secure in my relationship to my maker and the world he ceated for us.
(Yes, I know Rufus wasn't in the bible, he is a fictional character created by Kevin Smith in the film "Dogma" Yes, I know the difference, but I still will chose ideas over beliefs any day.)
2006-10-25 21:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by Merelda 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why ask why about what? I know what faith is. I also know where mine is. I'm not sure how you came up with the idea that non-Christians do not know what faith is.
2006-10-25 22:06:27 · answer #5 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My big question is why there have been more killings in Christ's name than any other.
No probs with your faith, just the intolerance of other points of view. You assume that because I am a Non-Christian that I do not understand faith - thats lame.. should I assume that you give most of your income to the less fortunate? Didn't think so.
Jesus is A-O-K in my book, it's just that so many of his followers are asshats.
2006-10-25 21:50:26 · answer #6 · answered by Redcap the Druid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just don't believe in Christianity. Everyone have a faith in something. This also includes Atheists. Although they may not share the same faith they all believe in something such as Christianity, science, evolution, Buddhism, etc
2006-10-25 21:39:32 · answer #7 · answered by Patrick W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Surely you don't mean *all* non-Christians. Many of us have faith, too; it's just not in who and what you have faith in.
I feel that Evangelical Christians have a very insecure sort of faith, since they need to see it mirrored around them all the time.
2006-10-25 21:42:02 · answer #8 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all too clear that it is the Christians who do not know what faith is.
Look at how many Christians here insist that they have evidence or even proof of their beliefs. There's practically no faith in the entire bunch.
2006-10-25 21:37:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Why ask why?
Because they (non-christians) are thinking human beings!
We ALL need to ask why! Stop being led like blind sheep.
*John S* Hitler may have been raised in the Catholic faith, but he certainly was not one while he was an adult. The Third Reich wasn't a Catholic idea, but one of a sociopathic madman.
2006-10-25 21:45:18 · answer #10 · answered by mesquitemachine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋