Please do not say "that people misunderstand it", or "There is nothing I do not like about my religion". If this is what you want to say then don't answer. I am asking for people to actually acknowledge ONE thing that bothers them about their religion of choice.
I will go first: As an atheist, I do not like feeling that life is unfair and there is no judgement after you die
2006-12-04 21:35:00 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I ask this not to challenge anyone's faith, but simply to help make people more aware of the limitations and issues in their own religions (or in my case lack there of)
2006-12-04 21:36:13 · update #1
great...I ask a simple question and the first 3 answers I get are complete garbage....
2006-12-04 21:48:52 · update #2
Dorky, thanks for your honesty and insight
2006-12-04 21:50:28 · update #3
Here they are...
I believe in Buddhism but I hate it when Buddhists nowadays taught about self-annihilation as emptiness and the way of liberation. In fact, Buddhism never taught these things. Also, Buddhists have very high misunderstanding of Karma, Buddha, etc.
I also believe in Taoism but I hate it when taoists nowadays choose to worship deities as the way towards short-term salvation. I understand that the original Taoism was purely philosophical and has nothing to do with deity-worshipping.
By the way, life is indeed unfair based on my life experience.
2006-12-04 21:48:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of the people within it. No, seriously, it really bugs me.
I know you were looking to see that I disagree with some of the teachings, and I'm sorry, but I really don't.
I COULD say that I don't like how people are judged, but the fact is, we don't KNOW how people are truly judged. Who's to say that God doesn't have mercy on those who spend their whole lives earnestly searching for God, and never find Him?
I could say that I don't like some of the things that are considered a sin, but that's not true. I understand why sex is only supposed to take place within the confines of marriage.
I don't agree that marrying someone who has been divorced is adultery. My husband was married once before; his ex-wife had MANY affairs, and put him $50,000 in debt. Should he not have been able to remarry? I think he should, and not just because I'm in love with him. Why should HE be punished for what someone else did to him? He didn't MAKE her have an affair, she CHOSE to.
Hmm, I guess there is one teaching I have a problem with: The one that I just mentioned.
But other than that, I just have a problem with some of the people. ESPECIALLY the people who try to say that if a woman is raped, she should still have the baby. I argued with a Christian friend about that the other night. I've been there...I don't think I could have handled carrying a child that came to be because of that. I also couldn't picture myself giving the child up for adoption, because I want a baby SO bad. So I'd be stuck, either carrying, and then raising, a child I couldn't love (which would break my heart), or giving a child up that I would WANT to love.
It also drives me nuts that many of the Christians I know truly know nothing of science, and when asked questions about their beliefs, they simply reply to "have faith." Has it EVER occurred to them that not everyone can HAVE faith? I was one of them!
I hope this answers your question.
2006-12-05 06:15:33 · answer #2 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lack of Absolute Truth.
I'm a Unitarian Universalist, which is a "non-creedal" denomination. So, we have no doctrine, and no timeless wisdom attributed to a divine source. We have plenty of timeless wisdom, like recognizing the inherent worth and dignity of all people, etc., but all of it came from a bunch of people sitting around trying to come up with some Timeless Wisdom.
It would be nice to have some divinely-inspired dogma now and again. But it's tricky, what with lacking belief in divinity.
Also, the name of my denomination is a little cumbersome.
2006-12-05 05:53:26 · answer #3 · answered by abram.kelly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a non-believer, so there's one thing that makes being non-religious quite hard : through a hard time you're spiritually on your own, you have nobody to pray to, to call on, you have just hopes and your own strenght. They're enough to make you overcome even the hardest times, but it's a much bigger effort than entrusting God with your fears and insecurities.
2006-12-05 05:52:15 · answer #4 · answered by Love_my_Cornish_Knight❤️ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As an atheist, I don't like being in such a misunderstood and even hated minority.
I also do not like the lack of comfort from the idea of an afterlife, especially now that my father is gone.
2006-12-05 05:42:55 · answer #5 · answered by Snark 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can name thousands of wonderful things beyond my wish.
Before becoming a believer, I see darkness everywhere; now the divine sunshine shows me marvelous beauties everywhere in the creation of the One True God.
No people have complete wisdom to judge, whether theists or atheists.
2006-12-05 05:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I like everything about my true religion......God Jesus is my true religion.
We are judge unfairly everyday on earth, on judgment day at least we will be judge fairly, if we like it or not, no matter who we are, no matter what religion we are. That's my perspective that I believe.
Peace!
2006-12-05 05:54:44 · answer #7 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Its inability to establish itself as truth over evil/ignorance
2006-12-05 05:42:44 · answer #8 · answered by isis 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That there is no mandatory drug use.
I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!
2006-12-05 05:55:15 · answer #9 · answered by Satan Lord of Flames 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caste System in our Hindu Religion................
2006-12-05 05:48:01 · answer #10 · answered by ramasamy j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋