It is important that you do not confuse them.
2006-12-15 16:00:46 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Religion. People are bad representations of a good idea.
Oh-Tami...
Wow. You're the kind of people we hate. :)
2006-12-15 16:02:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sorry. God and religion are associated with one another. That's not going to change. In the new testament, the word religion is mentioned a few times.
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." new testament, James 1: 27.
Modern paraphrase bibles divorce religion from God.
Here are reasons why I don't:
The term religion has been explained with subterfuge and nonsense. The new testament has rarely been searched or consulted on the matter. Thus the misinformation.
The term religion appears in the new testament in connection with law. The true meaning of the term religion has to be the royal law.
In other places of the new testament, the word religion is mentioned alongside of the words sect, church, and tradition.
If you go to church, and tell people that you go, they automatically associate church to religion. There's nothing you can do about it because the new testament has them along side each other also.
Religion and superstition are not the same, and translators of modern bibles confuse the two. They can't believe that God could choose his own words.
Also, Numbers 9: 3 mentions "rites" and "ceremonies," related to the passover. If God does not despise rites or ceremonies, there's no reason why I should.
It is not God that many people hate, but misinformation about him.
Unbiblical terminology has been used to explain the gospel or change the words of it.
Conversion is an act of God that has been turned into an artifice and device of the manipulative, pushy, and arrogant.
For many who shall read this, it is not God that is hated. It is a cruel and rotten world that destroyed their hopes.
It is important that YOU do not confuse them.
2006-12-18 21:58:30 · answer #2 · answered by Bubba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion
2006-12-15 16:14:39 · answer #3 · answered by buttercup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speaking for myself, I do not like religions. More evil has been done in the name of religion than any other cause (with maybe the exception of economics). Man tends to bend or interpret religion to meet his own needs at the time, and therefore it gets distorted over time. However, it continues to be a source of peace for many other people which I find ironic.
I feel that others should have the right to believe whatever they choose, but not the right to "inflict" those opinions on others (hence the need for complete separation of Church and State).
Therefore, to answer your question, I wouldn't say that I hate religion, I just don't like them or what they become. As for God, I haven't met him /her/it (yet?).
2006-12-15 16:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by Lee W. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't confuse them - if there is a God, I don't hate god (unless god is a mean spirited god in actuality). I don't hate all religions, or all religious people. Just the religions that act more like cults, and the religious people that are crazy.
2006-12-15 16:03:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't hate God or religion. I just have no respect for people who use God as an excuse to treat other people poorly. The mistaken belief that "My God is better than your God" has been the basis for most wars and murders in our history.
2006-12-15 16:12:18 · answer #6 · answered by idahoturkey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If God is real then I hate God, but if religion is just pretending there's a God then I hate religion.
2006-12-15 16:03:29 · answer #7 · answered by mrkitties420 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't hate either, thank you very much.
I can't hate God. Hard to hate something that doesn't exist.
Religion? Clearly it exists, but I don't hate it. Religion in and of itself isn't harmful to anyone. It's a principle, a belief.
People, on the other hand, oh, I'll freely admit I hate some people. Few, but they exist. And I don't hate them because of their beliefs, be it in God or something else.
Want to know why I hate the scant few people in this world that I hate? I hate them because they were disrespectful, hateful people themselves. One of the people I despise is a child molester. Please tell me you don't actually believe I'm supposed to love this guy or even tolerate him to any measure. I can't even list a QUARTER of the dreadful things this person's done on this board. To his own SON and DAUGHTER no less.
Another person I despise was a person I trusted for the better part of the last decade who turned out to be a manipulative creep who wanted to get me drunk and rape me and is a wife beater. Catholic fellow, that one, but I don't hate him on account of his faith. I hate him because of what he would've done to me and has done to others.
Religion has NOTHING to do with anyone I might hate. It's their actions as decent human beings. Most of the time, I just cut ties with jerks and people that are nasty and let it alone. I don't hate them, don't care about them, they're just out of my life. Period.
I don't consider myself a hate-filled person by any means. Hate of everything is pretty damn pointless. It has to be an exceptionally nasty, foul, mean-spirited individual to earn my hate. Few people have. The two above are probably about half of the total people I actually hate in this world. I either like you, and if I don't, you're not worth my time. Period.
I don't hate Christians or any religious folk. Sure, I've been hurt by some(including some family members), and a lot of 'em irritate the hell out of me, but I don't hate.
I would hope that it's not you that's confusing irritattion and frustration with rebellion and hatred. Not everyone truly hates God or religion. But I know a LOT of people who are irritated to no end by some religious folks. Maybe it's not hate so much as irritation, y'know?
2006-12-18 04:17:28 · answer #8 · answered by Ophelia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists DON'T BELIEVE in God. Hating something requires having some concept that it exists. Every person who asks this question misses the whole point. The only people who can hate God are Theists.
2006-12-15 16:07:12 · answer #9 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion is a problem, specifically the Christian one. I have no problem with God or Jesus, it's the blasted church.
They kept assuming non-human peoples were servants of the devil, and tried to commit genocide against us. What crime did we commit? None as a race. We descend from Adam too, just not through Eve.
2006-12-17 09:09:55 · answer #10 · answered by Wolfman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate Religions(but not all of them) I hate whats crimes have bin done in the name of God. I dont hate God. I cant hate something i dont think is real. If God is real my feelings are indifferent since i dont know what kinda God he is.
2006-12-15 16:07:27 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋