Why do people feel the need to push their own religious beliefs on others without regard to how they feel?

Question

I have family members who are christians and because I have a different faith they are have a huge issue with pushing their own beliefs on me. Some have gone so far to cut me out of their lives disowned me.
Is this something that is considered christian behaviour? If so then I am happy being a wiccan where I am following the treat others rule of thumb.

I just want to say I was a christian before and I found my faith to be more freer and open minded. More loving and less hateful. So please don't tell me I am gonna go to a place called hell, cause that means a road trip to Michigan. Look it up on the map.
Don't preach at me either I don't need to hear it. Been there done that.

By the by upon reading the answers I surely see why I am no longer a christian the hatred that comes from their spirits even online wow.
Blessed be to you.

I hope you find some sort of inner peace making such nasty comments to me when I asked such an innocent question wow.

Thank Goddess I have a good head on my shoulders cause the hatred coming through here is incredible....talk about haters.....is this how your sacred Jesus Christ would speak?

Answer 1

I am so sorry you are going through this. It happens a lot to those of the Wiccan faith where they have friends or family members that treat them exactly the same way.

Unfortunately, it is a christian tenet to turn one's back on those who refuse to "hear the gospel" and many of them take this to the extreme.

Many christians behave this way, but there are also others who are very kind, considerate and loving, and who won't treat you that way.

Try to remember that they believe that there is a literal hell for those who do not accept Jesus as their savior. Those christians who attempt to "witness" to you in a loving manner are truly concerned for you based on that belief.

There are mean-spirited people who belong to all faiths, and a spirit of intolerance is prevalent in many of the mainstream belief systems, not just christianity.

I applaud you for following the tenet of "treat others", which is the belief of many faiths. The Wiccan tenet of "harm none" is also a lovely one as well.

May you be blessed on your spiritual path wherever it leads you.

Answer 2

Most religions believe that they are the only ones that can possibly be right,after all you say you are a wiccan,is your religion wrong in what it believes? Of course you would not say no,but some religious people take it to the extreme that if you don't believe as they believe then they either want nothing to do with you or they spend all their energy trying to convert you. Or in worse cases they do as early Jews and Muslims and take it to the extreme that they can kill you if they feel your presence as a non believer threatens them. And both also at one point had laws ordering death for those that abandoned their faiths. Thankfully at some point the Jewish people seemed to choose to make that more ceremonial than literal,but many would disown those who abandoned the faith or married outside the faith,essentially considering them dead. I say worrying about what others,even family,feel about your religious choices is an exercise in futility. If they cannot accept your choices then they're really not worth having around anyway,so not worth worrying about. I am who I am,and those that cannot at least respect that are welcome to leave,I have no use for them.

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Answer 3

I'm sorry that you are experiencing this. Sometimes one of the negative things a religion can do to people is make them hostile towards other beliefs. This is in part because they want to feel that everyone sees their "truth" and those that don't are somehow threatening to their belief system. It is not right, if someone loves you they need to respect your beliefs. I am not Christian but I still love and hang out with my Christian relatives, I even participate in some of their rituals when it is important to them in order to facilitate unity. It doesn't undermine my beliefs so sometimes I think people who behave in the way you describe must be very insecure. I hope you will be able to rise above this all and not be too hurt by it. Best wishes to you and Merry Solstice.

Answer 4

No Christian should be shoving their beliefs on anyone. A Christian's responsible is go make disciples, but in a peaceful way. All we can do is try to reason with people on what the Bible teaches, but that person needs to make their own mind over and do their own research to see if what that Christian preaches is the truth.

Answer 5

Shame on them. I'm a Christian. My closest friend used to be an agnostic when we first met. I never told her she was going to hell. I never told her she had to believe what I believe. But, when she came to me for advice, she knew that God was gonna come into the equation. She solicited my advice, so therefore, I was given permission to express myself within the context of who I am. And God is part of who I am, so He would definitely come up in conversation here and there ;) I loved her. I supported her where she needed to be supported. I was a friend to her. She's not an agnostic anymore. She's not a "thumper", as we are so lovingly called, either. My brother was an atheist. Never loved him any less or treated him any differently. If people are concerned about your salvation, they would do well to pray for you and live their lives as an open book. If there's anything desirable about their walk with God, you'd see it. If not, they might wanna open their Bibles and see how Jesus treated people.

Answer 6

How they are treating you is NOT christian behavior. To be a Christian is to be Christ like, and if you read in the bible about Jesus, that is not how he treated people. So many people today claim to be christians, but just remember that the bible says we will know them by their fruits. Jesus asked us to love one another, not shun them out of our lives and treat them bad for being different. I'm on the flip side, I'm the only christian in my family, my brother is wiccan too, but i still love him and treat him with respect.

Answer 7

Well, don't judge all christians by a few.

I would have to know more about why they did it to judge them though. I can only speak as a christian. My hubby has a wiccan aunt and I have never had her push her views on me. She has always been very loving toward us. And we have never pushed our views on her. However, if she started acting overt about it, Talking about wiccan stuff in front of my kids... or if she started rambling on about how horrible christians are, I certainly would.
Not that I'm saying you have. But like I said, if she started preaching on about how wonderful it is to be pagan, I wouldn't want to be around her.

Answer 8

LOL i'm a Christian and that i agree that the two aspects are greater suitable than slightly responsible. that is hilarious because of the fact not basically have we appeared to annoy independent human beings, yet we've gotten to the element the place we harass one yet another to no end. We have confidence the precise opposite of the different. that is pointless. Atheism is predicated off of excellent judgment and scientific information, on the same time as Christianity is predicated off of affection and faith. Atheists get all up in Christians's face approximately not being "logical" and how there is "information" Christians are incorrect, insulting God to spur unfavorable outcomes and calling us ignorant. yet Christianity isn't approximately any of that so measuring our faith by using such issues does not make any experience. meanwhile, Christians make contributions to the feud and grow to be purely as snarky by using giving lame comebacks and calling Atheists names and such. i think of Christians could end struggling with back, and purely tell them the understanding. in the event that they don't have confidence it, so be it. one human beings is incorrect, however the version is: is that if one human beings is incorrect, mentioned incorrect all of us is going to hell.

Answer 9

Because family members care about you, and it seems like your family wants to help save you from the mistake of following a trendy but false religion.

Disowning people is not Christian behavior -- but trying to show someone the truths of Christianity, especially if it's family members, is definitely Christian behavior.

We are meant to share our faith -- not keep it to ourselves. Telling someone about the truth of Christ's gift of salvation is not "pushing beliefs" -- it's an act of charity.

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Answer 10

A wiccan?
if your not for Christ Jesus your against him.
As a wiccan you know your not for him, is it that important to you that it is o.k. to make your family so upset that they sadly disown you. Do you know how much pain it is to disown family?
You much really love wicca way more than your family!
Bye the way they are not fully mature christians You can tell by there actions but your not making easier for them either!