Do you get so fustrated?

Question

when you try to respect everyones race, religion, sexual preferance & everything else but they seem to be disrespecting your beliefs? For example I'm for gay rights, I think that the Rabbi was right in wanting a menorah at the airport in Seattle & I think the Christians should just leave the athiests alone & not preach to them. I also think that people pick on the Muslims sometimes. I'm a live & let live person, but then I see comments like Christians are sinners & we believe in a fake God & I get sad because I feel like I'm trying to respect everyone elses choices but I get mocked at.

Biyguy is one of the people that I'm referring to. I would never talk to a non judgemental person that way especially when I'm trying to do whatever I can to make sure he has the same rights as I do to get married

Answer 1

Well, your one-in-a-million. Be proud of your good heart. Its a rarity.

The reason you get mocked at is because no one (well, very few) believe the way you do, and its the "group mentality" that allows others to feel safe in mocking those different. This should make you feel like your on the correct path, after all, even the second perfect man was mocked to the day of his death. If he was not protected why should anyone else be? Its a test of fire, what doesn't break you, should make you stronger in your convictions. I know, it doesn't sound fair, but trust me, it is in so many ways. After all, how do we truly know WHAT we believe until we've been tested? Many people say what they believe, but when tested find they can give up those beliefs. You on the other hand have been tested and still have an open and honest heart. Hold your head up, your one of the good guys!

Answer 2

Trust me, you are part of a group of people who try to respect others and not wish hurt others, unfortunately, as we all know the group isn't very big.

I get frustated too, but I don't think I have seen or heard as much as you. Because I live in a harmonious environment and nobody has actually discriminated me directly for who I am and what I believe in. But I have heard of first hand experiences from people I know, and it's awful. Imagine an educated lady making a teenage boy, a 17 year old boy, cry. And she did it by insulting his religion. This is a boy studying in a boarding school, he must be a strongwilled person to leave home to study, if she had made him cry, imagine what she had said. I was shocked that anybody from an educated background could act so shamelessly towards a student, towards any human being.

You are not alone in this, many people go through this too, and we will always suppport each other because we know that offending or hurting others just because they are different is wrong.

I am a Hindu and I have heard and seen not-so-nice comments about my religion, they were not directly hit at me, but I somehow get how you feel.

It's like these people offend you, you know it's not the whole world or the whole community mocking you, but the people around you think differently, they want to mock back and a mocking war happens. When this happens, you feel frustrated because you see people getting offended and you want to help them but when you turn to the other side, the same feeling issues.

Anyway, when somebody directly mocks you for who you are, you know it's wrong. You respect people so you don't mock them, there are people who respect you and do not mock you. You know that people are wrong when you see them mock others, well, others learn that people who mock you are wrong when they see you being offended.

It happens to everybody, whether you respect others or not, the only difference is that you are in the group that will never turn against you, they are in the group that can have a mocking war any time.

There is also another more simple way to say it, you respect people because you respect them, it is not a must that you receive respect in return. But the difference is, you know what is right and what is wrong, you respect, and like I said just now, this group of respecting people will always be supporting each other, at least I know I will.

Answer 3

I get frustrated at both those who do not respect others beliefs and those who want to shove their own beliefs down others throats before educating them as to why it is not a bad thing. The Rabbi in Seattle could have asked to have a menorah placed in the airport since Christmas trees were already present and, if the airport did not respond, organized a protest and if that was not effective then threatened a lawsuit. Instead, a lawsuit was threatened immediately which did not achieve the goal but resulted in people not being sympathetic to what the Rabbi was trying to achieve. In regards to gay marriage, if specific laws targeting hospital visitation rights, inheritance rights, and taxation were targeted one-by-one (ex. someone is more likely to support joint homeownership inheritance rights than supporting gay marriage in general) there would be broader support to have these rights equalized and avoiding knee jerk reactions. Once the laws were equalized, there would be less opposition to calling gay partnerships marriage. Concerning Muslims, predominantly Muslim counties are not free societies and the people in those countries should not be judged by governments they may or may not support. An editorial on my local television station this evening commented on the Holocaust conference in Iran and saying Muslims in the United States should speak up while barely mentioning that an attendant to that conference was a Christian from the United States (former KKK leader David Duke). Some Christians are viewed in a bad light since evangelical Christians are quite vocal in their hatred of others, and that hatred can cause others to paint all Christians with a broad brush since Christians of other denominations are not as vocal and can be seen as complicit bystanders. Wars are not won all at once, but by individual battles concentrating on the eventual outcome. Most of us want a certain outcome, but we often disagree on the path that should be taken.

Answer 4

I agree with you and I too am saddened by this. I believe that we have almost gone to a point that things have become too politically correct and it almost impossible to completely respect one's beliefs without somehow infringing on anothers. Where do we draw the line? I would hope that someday we will be able to get to a point where everyone can be more accepting and better able to express our discomfort with something that is being said about our "group."

I don't believe that anyone should have the right to believe that his or her beliefs are better or more moral than anyone elses. We are all in this world together, most of us looking for our place and trying to figure out what we're supposed to do with our life. No one knows exactly. We are all searching in the dark for answers. Different people find their enlightenment in different directions and in the different forms.

I believe that eventually that we might find that it's the same light, just reflecting off of different surfaces. So, who's to say that I should try to sway someone to believe my way when they might be heading in the right direction all along? Really, if you really listen to most religions...they all have a very similar basis.

Answer 5

The reason this is so, is because, throughout history religion, specifically christianity has sought to impose and have imposed it's will and values on other peoples through conquest or cohersion. You should truly study the history of religion, naturally there is hatred and dislike because of this.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, (1882), Sec. 130


It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

from Nietzsche's Daybreak, s. 563, R.J. Hollingdale trans





[Christianity] is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world. Your Majesty will do the human race an eternal service by extirpating this infamous superstition, I do not say among the rabble, who are not worthy of being enlightened and who are apt for every yoke; I say among honest people, among men who think, among those who wish to think. … My one regret in dying is that I cannot aid you in this noble enterprise, the finest and most respectable which the human mind can point out.
Voltaire, Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 156 from Voltaire to Frederick, 5 January 1767.

Answer 6

Well you can't get down to their level and start mocking them, besides doesn't you belief say that you will be judged by your actions not others? So let them do what they want, there are ignorant and bigoted people every where and there is nothing you can do about it. Just keep your head high and keep doing what you do. Don't let it bother you too much.

Answer 7

Lack of sleep is mainly one of the vital undoubtedly causes she is so annoyed, it might even have some thing to do along with her peers. It is ordinary for gossip and such to occur at sleepover, perhaps she heard some thing she did not like? My idea is to simply permit her settle down. If she's nonetheless annoyed after you have an entire night time of sleep take a look at to take a seat down and speak to her. There is also some thing on her brain, or bugging her. It might even be hormones relying at the age

Answer 8

Yeah, it pisses me off cuz i'm like you live and let live.

But the only thing you can do is continue to be a good person, and let them other people talk crap! as long as you're being a good person thats all that matters !

i dont care if people disagree with what i believe, but when they start bad mouthing my beliefs then i get angry, but just forgive their ignorance!

Answer 9

Yes it gets me frustrated constantly, I know what you are saying, and you know what, at times like this is when I think of my late dad, who said the religion was a very private thing, and each one is entitled without discrimation to worship who they please, no one religion is the best or the worst...so try never to discuss religion or try to force someone to believe what you believe. He passed at 45 years old, but I know he was wise beyond his years, I was eighteen when he passed but he is the one that taught me not to judge or discriminate anyone for who they are....we are all brothers and sisters, we all bleed the same, but unfortunatley we don't think the same. So just be yourself and don't worry about the ignorant ones who choose to be evil in destroying your beliefs. Hope this helps you, stay true to you and don't worry about the ones who try to hurt you, they are just miserable themselves. God Bless.

Answer 10

Not for some time until recently when a young relative of my late partner waved to me across the street. She was slapped and shaken by her parents and taken away before I could say a word.
I had previously forgiven them but their hate goes on and on and on.and I begin to despair.
Rose P.