2006-12-18 00:43:03 · 19 answers · asked by jsjmlj 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why do you hate? What an enormously sad way to go through life.
There is so much joy in loving and being grateful for our blessings.
Oh, I imagine you have never experienced a blessing, I'm sorry for you.
2006-12-18 01:20:41 · answer #1 · answered by June smiles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so. There is no room for hatred in relgions, so if a Christian hates a Muslim or vice versa, that person is a hypocrit. And we know there are a lot of those out there. There is no religion that exists that states that it's main focus is hatred. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, etc. all express love. It's the followers that must comply.
I wonder why a person who believes that God does not exist, that there is no high power that created this all would even bother hating any religion. You might not like a particular religious person because they keep bothering you and seem to force God on you. That's one thing, but to actually hate religion, I don't understand. Religion(s) have been around since the earliest man and always be around. So why waste your energy hating something that you allow to bother you?
Peace!
2006-12-18 08:49:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The problem with hatred is that it spurs from not understanding the other point of view. Don't get me wrong, religion is a pretty illogical point of view that it is outright out-there sometimes;BUT you must learn to understand the mechanisms for it's creation. These are strictly evolutionary traits, which seem necessary for an organism to transcend primitive thinking to more logical thinking. It's the why this' and whys that's. Most people either don't understand a lot about their world or don't want to accept it. (Either because it contradicts what they were told from an early age or fact is the opposite to what they "feel" so strongly, in short it doesn't fit their conviction.) Take for instance .99999.... = 1. It does. A decimal place followed by an infinite number of 9s equals 1. I don't like it and it makes me angry just thinking about it because it is so absolutely ridiculous; but it is true. (Here's the proof. x = .999.... 10x =9.999... 10x - x( .999....) =9x = 9 9/9 =1 therefore .999... =1) For you to hate religion is probably based on the same concept. Also involved is the fact that something so ridiculous has the audacity to try and impose illogical fallacies on hard facts and tested science as well as try and compare itself to it. This is their right. It's annoying, a waste of time and stressful on everyone; but they have every right to do it. You must learn not to hate them for it but to accept them with their flaws. (Just as they should learn to accept you with yours.) If we hate each other neither party is right or justified. One may be called a hypocrite but that really doesn't solve the underlying problem. Hating gets us nowhere unless you believe that peace can only be achieved through the eradication of mankind. In that case hate on I guess. The rest of us will just have to learn to love each other for who we are and what we believe in, no matter how ridiculous it may seem. And for the record I still don't accept that .999... = 1, mathematicians love me for it. Yours truly,
Mervin DePervin
P.S Athiesm is NOT a religion. Nor is it faith in anything. As hard as it may be for some spiritual people to understand not everyone believes in or has faith in something. (I don't) Athiesm is a strong stance towards logic, not an act of faith. I repeate, for those who may not have been paying attention, ATHIESM IS NOT A RELIGION. Thank you for you time and understanding.
2006-12-18 08:57:21 · answer #3 · answered by Mervin DePervin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it's no the same. Religion is not a person. And an atheist can't have personal hatred for religious beliefs the way some religious people hate each other.
When there is hate between religions, then religious people don't hate each other's religions. They hate each other. They see each other as being in cahoots with the Devil who is their enemy and who is out to destroy them.
2006-12-18 08:54:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As an atheist, you just have a different religion (where you do not BELIEVE in the power of anything divine, not even a talasmin or lucky object) To be an atheist would, I imagine be a very difficult thing to BELIEVE in. I mean you BELIEVE there is a hatered between religions...how could you know; an athiest would take no interest...an athiest would just see Themselves.
Religions, do not hate each other, they just BELIEVE in what empowers them...unfortunatley we humans tend to be unable to seperate out our egos , therefore we mistake Hate for Judgement. At the end of the day I BELIEVE if you just have a faith in something,, God, Source, Universe, Buddah, Jehova, your lucky coin...practice your faith in honor and privacy, you have enough faith to keep going in life.
2006-12-18 09:55:36 · answer #5 · answered by heart 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know how you feel about it. But for me it isn't hatred. It is frustration at the level of ignorance.
I mean if I have to tell anyone else that we didn't evolve from monkeys I think that I will scream. My other big one is that they think you can't have lower species because there are higher ones. Then they want to try to push that off as if they know a damn thing about science and how it works. Worse yet want to spread it around the schools so we can raise another generation as ignorant as they are.
I really wouldn't care what they believed if they just stayed out of the schools and science. If they want to go through life blissfully uneducated, that is OK. It is just that we need to raise kids that are not.
2006-12-18 08:55:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, hatred of one religion for another is actually an expression of fear that the other guy's religion might be the real mccoy and yours the phony one.
As an atheist, you hate religion because it represents ignorance, hypocrisy and the real potential (and, in many cases, fact) of killing in the name of some nonsensical supreme being.
Not at all the same.
2006-12-18 09:06:45 · answer #7 · answered by Brendan G 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, religious people hate other religions because they believe they are right, Atheists hate religions because they are all wrong.
2006-12-18 08:52:24 · answer #8 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nah because at the end of the day you don't believe in and approve of people being tortured for all eternity for having the same beliefs as you.
2006-12-18 08:49:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why hatred? As an atheist I have contempt or disdain for institutionalised religion but not hatred. Hatred I reserve for something worthwhile.
2006-12-18 08:53:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋