I read an answer to another question an the person said they hated people that told them about God.I know every body doesn`t hate but to get mad because some one is trying to tell you about something dosen`t make sense to me.\,just say you don`t want to hear it and go back to want you were doing.
2006-12-04 07:27:49 · 24 answers · asked by Step 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe we don't want to be told becausew we've been told a thousand times before and its getting boring.
2006-12-04 07:29:26 · answer #1 · answered by Om 5 · 8⤊ 1⤋
In America, it's estimated that approx 85% of us are Christian. (I'm not one of that 85%). Now even if it were only 70% of America that is Christian... what would make you think us Non-Christians haven't already heard it?
Another way of looking at it. Imagine that 85% of America was Celtic Pagan. Everywhere you went that Religion would be in the Public Venues. Seeing that it is the majority, it would be our Religious Holidays that you would be getting days off for. All of this constantly in the public, on TV, on the Net, etc... Would you want a Celtic Pagan coming up to you, even online, and saying "Have you heard the "good news" about Cernunnos?" I'm sure you'd get tired of it and would want to see a change, if for no other reason that the religion is already EVERYWHERE in your country. (Assuming that you are American.)
2006-12-04 16:14:35 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Exactly how many believers do you think stop talking when someone says, "I'd rather not hear about it"? I got stuck in line at a video store behind a man who was telling the Indian (India Indian) clerk behind the counter about the Bible. The clerk said several times, "It's wonderful that you believe that. I also have my spiritual beliefs," and the customer just went on and on about the Bible being the only way to heaven and this man had to know that and accept Jesus into his life. Meanwhile the clerk is TRAPPED behind a counter, at his job in customer service, so he can't be rude, and there's a line forming behind the fundie who won't shut up and take his change. THAT is why we feel your religion is being pushed on us.
Bright blessings anyway, dude.
)O(
2006-12-04 16:02:09 · answer #3 · answered by thelittlemerriemaid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well look at this forum for instance. We look at and answer the questions we want to look at and answer and give thumbs up and thumbs down to the other panelists to show them our approval or disapproval respectively. You don't give us that option in the real world. We may not ask you to "tell" us about "the savior" or whatever else.
Think about it in simplified terms. Do you go around your workplace or school and tell people "i just had tuna for lunch", whether they wanted to know or not? I know I don't, if asked I tell, and every once in a while I will say "you know what I had for lunch?" if they say no then I stop there, but if they say yes I tell them.
We don't go around with our atheist/ agnostic/ deist views going up to every person we cross and asking them if they know there is no god (or insert belief here). and when you do it irritates us that you don't respect us the way we respect you. Do not read that to say we ALL respect you, and you ALL disrespect us, but when something of this sort happens it's a respect issue. Respect our beliefs and stop trying to "tell" us about yours.
I think the world should adopt the policy the military has "don't ask, don't tell".
2006-12-04 15:42:50 · answer #4 · answered by bensbabe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I didn't ask about it, then there's a better than 50% chance that I feel like you're pushing it on me. That goes for conversations about politics, too.
Whether I get irritated about it probably has more to do with the demeanor of the person doing the pushing, though.
2006-12-04 15:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Suppose you only have linoleum covered floors. How would be you feel if you kept running into people trying to sell you a carpet steam cleaner? Try it for free, no money down, satisfaction guaranteed. You turned on the television and there were ads every couple of hours for this same carpet steam cleaner, telling you how clean and fluffy it made your carpet? You find brochures for the carpet steam cleaner in your mailbox. People come up to you and drop references to their carpet steam cleaner in casual conversation. Some even invite you to join them in visiting the local showroom where you can see models of the carpet steam cleaner on display and touch the soft clean carpet? People knock on your door and call your house asking if you have a carpet steam cleaner... carpet steam cleaner carpet steam cleaner carpet steam cleaner carpet steam cleaner carpet steam cleaner carpet steam cleaner.... You still have linoleum. Linoleum does not need their carpet steam cleaner. Are you going to install carpet just so you can buy one of these carpet steam cleaners? Or what if you already have carpet and use a different brand of carpet cleaner that you are happy with, and feel no need to buy theirs? When you try to explain this to people trying to get you to try their carpet steam cleaner, some of them get furious and tell you that your floors are going to rot out from under you and you must love cockroaches.
You may say God is free, you can't sell God, but it still works on the same principle.
2006-12-04 16:17:38 · answer #6 · answered by February Rain 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends.
If you tell someone who asks you or in a public forum (like this) which encourages discussion you are not.
If you go around knocking on peoples doors and bothering them on the street you are. You would also be if you tried to pass laws to promote your religion over others.
2006-12-04 15:33:49 · answer #7 · answered by Alex 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but when we say we don't want to hear it oftentimes the person doesn't listen or gets offended. Besideswhich, anytime someone starts talking about God, they're usually trying to sell you on Him/Her/It. The fact that you aren't (as you say) makes you an exception to the rule.
2006-12-04 15:32:11 · answer #8 · answered by Guelph 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are right.
There are a lot of people in some faiths (Christian and Muslim) who feel it is part of their religious duty to instruct others. I am Christian, and frankly I think that attitude is rude and intrusive.
I try to teach by the way I live. Sometimes people who have come to know me, and wonder, ask me what I believe, and then I tell them. But I don't tell people who have not asked. It's not my place.
I like to have faith in God that he will see what's best for other people and lead them in the way he chooses. Who am I to try to do that for Him?
People don't like to be told by other people how to live! It's really arrogant in my opinion to think you are so much better than others, and so devoid of faults, that you need to tell them what to believe and do. I really don't think God probably likes it much either. ;)
People I meet who preach at others the most, are usually those that need to look inside themselves and do some work, before they work on others.
2006-12-04 15:35:21 · answer #9 · answered by Mac 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If someone tells you they don't believe in God, that should be a pretty clear sign they don't want to hear about it. Missing that ginormous clue seems to be a common Christian trait and is very irritating. If you know I don't believe in unicorns and then proceed to tell me all about how wonderful they are, how do think I'm going to feel about that?
Let's just get it clear: there's no need to tell people who don't believe in God about God. There's no need to tell someone who doesn't ask about God anything about God.
2006-12-04 15:36:01 · answer #10 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Be-leave? Seriously?
2006-12-04 15:34:36 · answer #11 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋