Why are we sometimes attacked for our beliefs? Not like beat up, but verbally? In our religion, gay marriage is wrong. And if we say it, somebody starts to get upset. Some people tend to think that we are mean people, and that we think everyone is going to hell. My family is really nice and don't judge people like that.
2006-11-08 12:44:03 · 23 answers · asked by Jessie 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i agree; its not like we go out looking for a gay to argue with, i don't tell people how to live their life but if they ask me my opinion about it they're going to get my opinion. good Q :)
2006-11-08 12:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by Nikki 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Everyone gets attacked because of their beliefs not just Christians, whom who can be plenty rude at times. I'm Christian but very, very open. That whole gay wed thing is because alot of people go around saying that as if that is proof of something and in a way try to bring them down. alot of the time people who are Christian say things in the bible that they want heard but when they do something wrong they don't say anything at all. Everyone who is Christian sins so maybe people should stop attacking them. Besides I think there should be a separation b/t church and state. Everyone gets attacked not just Christians.
2006-11-08 20:57:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry Christian descendant, but hope that you will still except this answer, even though I am not. Everyone is attacked for their beliefs, and it doesn't matter the religion. When someone has blind faith, and cares to express it to the world, they are viewed as people who are not tolerant to differences. I think the line is drawn, when it crosses the lips. Believe what you do, because it will make your life complete, and then you will be true to your convictions.
2006-11-08 21:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by wen 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is the nature of mankind to live in darkness, since the fall. I guess people just don't like it when you tell them that their choices in life are wrong. Also, alot of cruelty has been done in the name of religion. Christ loved the sinner and came for him. He got upset more with the Pharisees, because they thought they were so righteous. Rather than tell ppl how wrong they are, why not spread the gospel of Christ and let the Holy Spirit deal with their sin. What is the greatest sin" To reject Jesus, everything else can be forgiven,
2006-11-08 21:03:32 · answer #4 · answered by angel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fact is, many people who get upset over this stuff ARE going to Hell. Just because we're based in reality does NOT make us mean. We've (Christians) always been attacked for our beliefs and always will be. Let's see who we see in the End Times, and on what side of the gate. Keep doing what you know is right.
2006-11-08 20:51:49 · answer #5 · answered by Johnny P 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I think they want us to agree with them so they feel better. Of course they aren't going to admit this. Only Christians reading this ??? Right or wrong I'm still going to call it the way I see it as long as I'm not out to condem. Jesus was the most loving person to walk the earth yet He spoke the truth. He did not speak the truth to condem, but to warn people so they will repent. In fact Jesus says of Himself in Luke 9:56,"For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." If that is our desire to see others saved then we are only doing what we have been commaned to do. It is not the will of our Father that not any should go to hell, but come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved. Of course only my believing sisters and brothers in Christ are reading this and you know this. So keep it up--telling the Truth in the most loving way.
2006-11-08 21:44:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
beacuse in the Bible it says we will be persocuted for our beliefs. So basically people will find us different. I will get to a point in time that we as Christians can not even say it wrong that we do not believe that we do not believe in gay realationships/marriage. I think that is say but it is true. I do not think that you should worry about it. People who think that you or your family are mean. Definitly need to read a Bible and find the Truth.
2006-11-08 20:50:14 · answer #7 · answered by Allison 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I posted this in my blog and I feel it an appropriate response to your question (and, no I'm not Christian).
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[A portion of an interview of Dr. Ronald Moglia conducted by Gloria G. and William D. Brame]
"I want to tell you a story about Sri Lanka. When I was there, we had to take a ride; it was only [about] 30 or 40 miles, but it was across country. In Sri Lanka that takes about seven hours by car. We didn't know that, so we kept asking the driver, "What time will we get there?" He kept saying, "Oh, soon, fine, pretty soon, just a little while now." The next day I told a medical colleague who's Sri Lankan, "I'm amazed at how people don't care about time here," and I related the story. He started to laugh and said, "You don't understand. Time is in God's hands. If that driver said, 'We'll be there in six hours,' he's taking God's right to determine how long it's going to take to make that trip.'
"How stupid of me, to take my values and my cultural learnings and throw it on this persons shoulders. I think that's what we tend to do all the time with behaviors ... We take our learnings and our understandings, being outside of that subculture, and try [to] understand and explain it ... or we reject it."
How many times have we (whether we're straight and looking at gays, or Christian looking at Pagans, or white looking at blacks) forced our model of cultural values upon the other group?
Is it inherently better to critique a group from outside that group? Considering the groups to which we say we belong, is it more valuable for us to critique our group based on the observations of those not in our group? Is it better for Christians to judge themselves based on the critiques of Pagans just as it is valuable for Pagans to judge themselves by Christian critiques?
Dr. Moglia's observations aren't about "My way is better," or "My God is better." His observations are more "How can I be so arrogant?"
Well? Are you so arrogant as to hold a group to which you owe NO affiliation to the values of a group to which you ARE affiliated?
2006-11-08 20:49:33 · answer #8 · answered by Eric 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's not just Christians honey. Whenever someone expresses a view that is different from another person and the second person doesn't agree with it they will start something with you. Just pray and ask God to help you be patient and help watch what you say and how you say things to others.
2006-11-08 21:04:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christian beliefs culminate with the fear of death and the terror of possible separation from one God that is supposed to be everywhere....and this because some guy named Jesus elaborated on that possibility. Christians claim that Jesus was always right. That is a hard pill to swallow for a thinker. Jesus called people names at times and continued the Jewish idea of a hell in afterlife and this was continued by preachers who want to tell people that if they dont say that Jesus is it in their hearts, that he was infallible as a human, unsinning, then they go to some separation from the rest of the "good people". So they must give their life to a person who on earth made some tactful mistakes ...if you think that getting yourself crucified is a mistake, which most people do.
2006-11-08 20:49:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Some of them don't mean to do it but when you come at a gay person and tell them that being gay is wrong they get upset because they don't want to be judged and they want to do what they want. It's not like they don't know.. but it's like they want to be rebelious against what the Father is telling us
2006-11-08 20:48:30 · answer #11 · answered by Foxxy 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋