THOSE WHO OPPOSE CHRISTIANITY: what would you like to say to christians?

Question

no slander, insults or demeaning words........
Just share your insights and reasons you oppose or disagree

I feel a great deal of respect for these reasonable response to the question. Thank you all for your honest insight and your willingness to share this. Honesty and insight are treasures I value a great deal and it is good to see us willing to share with each other

Answer 1

Dear Christians,

First of all, I want to say that I think it's awesome that you guys have found a belief system that you're comfortable with. Worshipping God and following the Bible is a large part of your life and I'm not going to tell you that that's a bad thing. But if I may suggest one thing, I want you guys to realize that we're all on different spiritual paths in this world. And I ask you to respect the beliefs of the people who have not chosen the Bible as their spiritual path. You obviously won't agree with their decision, but religion is a personal matter and the only person who can make that decision is the individual person themselves. For this reason I ask that you stop saying or implying that the people who are not on the same path as you are in some way "lost", "confused", "hopeless", or otherwise not at peace. I'm not saying that each and every one of you have made statements like that, but those kinds of remarks float around forums like these all the time, and they are totally invalid. Just as your right to be a Christian should be respected, another person's right to not be Christian should also be respected. Thanks.

Sincerely,
Parrot

Answer 2

Read the Old Testament. The God of Abraham is either a creature of great stupidity, cruelty, or a falsehood. Christianity is the product of all three.

How can you ask me to explain my opposition for Christianity without being insulting or demeaning?

Christians are responsible for more death, despair, and wickedness than any other group in the history of mankind. Their policies, goals, and means have not changed in thousands of years; we continue to watch the crusades even to this very day. Ironically, Christians are the historic masters of religious persecution. Early Christianity also took the focus of mankind away from the concrete world and directed it toward a spiritual afterlife- the direct result of which was the Dark Ages.

Volumes could be filled with all the insulting and demeaning things to say about Christianity. Slander I'll save for another day.

Answer 3

Apply a little logic and knowledge.

Christianity is based on the concept that Jesus was/is the promised Messiah to the Jews. If so, he should meet all the Jewish requirements for being the Messiah. The fact is he meets none, except for some very general things that could apply to anyone.

Christianity hold that the Jewish Scriptures must be true, as the Greek Scriptures must be true. Yet, it is clear to anyone with intellectual honesty that the Greek Scriptures are in opposition to the Jewish Scriptures and thus both cannot be true. If the Greek Scriptures are true, then Christianity is based on nothing...if the Jewish Scriptures are true, then the Greek Scriptures (and by dint, Jesus as Messiah) cannot be. Christianity seeks to have it both ways. But the two ways are mutually exclusive.

Therefore, Christianity must either be false in concept or baseless in fact.

Answer 4

The idea that an all loving entity would condemn anyone to eternal suffering is ASSININE. The idea that a fetus has POTENTIAL for life and shouldnt be killed cannot be justified - every time a man masturbates, he kills 200 million plus POTENTIAL babies - should he be prosecuted? The idea that our lives our planned out (Psalm 139: All my days are written in your book) cannot be rectified with the idea of Free Will. Either I have free will or my life is planned out. Free Will is an illusion.

However, even though your entire religion is really based upon Judiasm, Mithraism and many other pagan religions, Jesus was still a wonderful teacher and prophet. But, he wasnt a God. Gods dont exist.

Answer 5

I would like to ask them to really examine their beliefs. Do they make sense?

Does it really make sense that an all-powerful being would want us to worship him? Wouldn't that be like us wanting ants to worship us? What sense does that make?

Does it really make sense that the universe was created in 7 days, and that this all-powerful being did it? Doesn't it make more sense that primitive man just made up this explanation, because they had no other facts to work with?

Does it make sense that the earth is 6000 years old, when there is plentiful evidence it is 4.5 billion years old?

Does it make sense that an all-powerful being wouldn't communicate with us in some way that WASN'T mysterious? Couldn't he just appear in the sky to everyone and speak every language for 5 minutes? Why not do such a simple thing?

Does it make any sense at all that god would create adam and eve, then tell them not to do something, and they do it, and then he banishes them, and then thousands of years later god impregnates a woman and the son grows up and is killed and then somehow this redeems our sins? Bizarre!

Does is make sense that you have to constanlty make things up to justify your beliefs? When there is so much evidence that your core beliefs are wrong, why do you insist they are right?

Can you not simply realize that you are just repeating what your parents taught you, without doing any real research on your own? Isn't it time to think rationally?

Answer 6

Whoa, wait. Why should I have anything to say to the people when it's the religion I oppose?

Understand very clearly -- I don't have a problem with 98% of the Christians out there. Most of 'em are pretty cool. Only a minor few are the fundie extremists. It's the religion itself I have an issue with.

Answer 7

I would say theology and dogma have no place in modern society. I don't have a problem with religion based on experience and sentiment that people find spiritually uplifting but there is no place for meaningless doctrines like original sin, liturgies, creeds or clerics-those should be consigned to the history books.

Answer 8

I don't necessarily oppose Christianity, but would like to encourage Christians (and people of any religion) to practice tolerance. Christianity is not the only way of life. If you look closely, you'll find that many people have the same beliefs as you do. Truely act as Christ did and show love and compassion to EVERYONE.

Answer 9

I would say: I think that faith is an excuse to lie to yourself in order to believe something you want to believe in. Once you decide to make decisions based on what you want the outcome to be rather than the facts involved, your whole way of looking at the world changes and you will never be able to be completely honest with yourself or others.

Answer 10

I find Christianity pushy, pessimistic and down right cruel. When you look at the theological depth and spirituality of Judaism, Budd ism and Hinduism, Christianity comes across as bubblegum theology.