Why do you guys feel the constant need to pick on Christians? Calling them losers, dumb, retarded... etc. I won't mention any names... Look, if you were mature enough, you would just leave Christians and their beliefs alone. This is a free country and they can believe what they want. And I don't care what your guy's answers are, I'll say that I am a Christian! And if someone put a gun to my head and I asked if I was a Christian, I would say yes because I know that I would be going to Heaven to be with God. I don't care what you think about that, it's true. So tell me: Are you guys going to diss me a little more, huh? 'Cause I stand for Jesus and I'm proud!
2006-11-27 08:57:07 · 35 answers · asked by pinknblacksox 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You're right. We need more discussions and less name-calling. The best way to persuade is with rational arguments. Ad hominems are not valid arguments. Most Christians and atheists would agree and usually don't resort to petty attacks.
As for "dissing" you for your beliefs. Most atheists don't care what you or anyone else believes. They do care very much when people try to legislate their beliefs, forcing everyone to abide by irrational superstitions and ancient prejudices. So long as Christians don't try to tell others what they must and must not believe, most atheists are content to let others be.
You're right, this is a free country, and we'd like to keep it that way.
2006-11-27 09:00:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Everyone can believe what they want to believe, this is true. But you are a Christian, you are the majority, regardless of your race, your mind is still the majority. You will have no idea what it feels like to constantly have people jamming their views down your throat and "convert" you. If you are black you can't be converted to white and no one will try and make you. But if you are anything other than Christian, God wants to recruit you.
I'm not trying to be mean I'm simply being frank. Take a look around in some of the other religous forums and even the gay forum and tell me how many "Christians" are slandering Muslims and Pagans. Try and count how many times a "Christian" has gone and told a gay person they were going to burn in hell.
The reason I am using quotations when I say Christians is because these people really aren't Christians. A Christian is suppose to be as Christ-like as possible and telling someone that they are heathens is not doing God's will. You are not spreading God's word by telling someone that they are bad people.
This is why people do that.
2006-11-27 09:25:10 · answer #2 · answered by IceyFlame 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wooooohooooo
Be proud. And when Christians stop prosletyzing and pitying and calling atheists (Note the spelling) and Pagans fools and lost, then, perhaps the acrimony headed in the other direction will diminish as well.
I'm certainly willing to bet that you don't stand up for Pagans or atheists when one of your kind slams them, do you? So, why should you get your dander all up when it happens in kind to you?
Do you really think I'd say I'm a Christian just because some Christian had a gun to my head? Christians burned witches at the stake, and pressed them under rocks. Christians killed the "savage" Native Americans with gifts of blankets infected with smallpox. I think that the non-Christians have much more to worry about.
For trying to teach real science in schools rather than mythology we are ridiculed. For trying to teach healthy reproductive choices we are branded heretics and worse. For trying to teach the truth about human sexuality we are told we are destroying the institution of marriage. We are blamed for everything from 9/11 to possibly world war three and you say we are the ones doing the persecution?
Get a towel and call a Waaambulance.
If you believe in Christ, do so proudly, but don't blame the state of the world on the non-Christians. There are plenty more of you around here than us, and you certainly seem to have had (until the last election) a whole lot more influence.
2006-11-27 09:07:32 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
honestly, i don't care who or what you believe in, but the fact that some christians get upset when anyone (even other christians) question them, I feel, shows an insecurity in their beliefs.
I think it is quite rude that you say ALL atheists... not all of them are rude or feel the constant need to pick on christians, so the fact that you group all of them together is wrong.
I don't claim to be anything, I don't believe in labelling my beliefs and morals, but no matter what anyone believes being boastful and having an instigating attitude will come back at you.
2006-11-27 09:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by bensbabe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gees pink I wish the Christians would do what you are asking others to do. I never call anyone anything and I get a couple of emails a week telling me that I'm going to hell for my beliefs.
I really don't mind this because I see the idea of hell as a fantasy but I'm sure that I am not the only one that this is happening to.
Everyone needs to have more respect for the beliefs of others here.
Love and blessings Don
2006-11-27 09:03:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Atheists could get along fine without bullying Christians, it's Christians that feel the need to convert other people so much. There are so many Christians hellbent on conversion that they forget about freedom of religion. Atheists have the freedom to believe however they wish, and some Christians don't like it because they can't force religion on them. So they resort to harassment. Atheists, and other non-believers for that matter, will defend themselves accordingly. Dun want no sh*t, dun start no sh*t.
2006-11-27 09:16:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheist react to the sort of challenge you put out!!!!
Leave non Christians alone in peace and they will gladly leave you alone!!!
Ask yourself why no other religion is reviled like the christian religion!! Answer - because no other religion is so critical, dictating and self serving.
Answer your God at the day of judgement and be prepared for the fires of hell for propogating such hate filled, ill thought out idiocy.
Hopefully true Christians will rebel and cast sinners like yourself out of the church.
Repent now for you do extreme damage to God and his church!!!!!!!
2006-11-27 09:25:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thing is, no atheist ever put a gun to a Christians head like that and asked them to renounce their beliefs. That's the sort of thing Christians do. Ask Gallileo. He's the guy who was forced to recant his claim that the earth goes around the sun. Eventually the church apologized (300 years later, or so).
Anyway, I've never called anyone a loser, dumb or a retard here, but your question addresses all atheists anyway. So you owe me a personal apology.
2006-11-27 09:03:37 · answer #8 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
Um, I'm an athiest and couldn't care less what you believe. That's your perrogative and won't affect me in the least. It is nice, however, to be able to have a philosophical/religious discussion with someone without having them immediately feel "attacked". If you're secure in your faith, what is the harm in debating it with an unbeliever?
Ugh. This is the crap that gives christians a bad name. (Yes, I'd say that about any athiest who was acting this way too.) How offensive.
2006-11-27 09:11:05 · answer #9 · answered by lizabethe517 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am neither Christian nor Atheist, but have observed the bickering going on ... it has worked both ways. All Atheists do not bash Christians nor do all Christians bash Atheists.
This is at least the umpteenth time this question has been asked. ("Why do the Atheists bash the Christians?") Christians are bashing the Atheists just as much .... and neither is "right" to bash one another.
2006-11-27 09:04:11 · answer #10 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋