i don't want the "christians push their faithon us" answer, what im looking for is a profoundly solid reason as to why our nation accepts the fact that satanists and anarchists promote their religion with no resistance but when someone asks another person about "are you a Christian and if not, do you know Jesus" all hell breaks loose and the Christian is streotyped? Just wondering why the world is so bassakwards.
2006-12-20 06:27:29 · 29 answers · asked by Royal R 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because a life of sin is easier. When you have rules that state that doing as you please without reguards for others will land you in hot water (or fire), people rebel against it. Face it, we're all very selfish people. We want it our way, and Christianity (or most other religions) have rules you have to follow. But we are also a very offended society. We will sit and listen to people talk of any other faith but Christianity (and increasingly Islam) because we don't want to offend them, and we don't care about offending Christianity or Islam. A religion that dictates that you must attend chruch, be held accountable for your sins, and possibly not get a reward will never be held in high reguard in our materialistic, hedonistic, me-me-me society. Those who do follow a religion (be it Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddism or what have you) that carries such a dire threat have a harder time because they fight against their basic instinct to just sin. I hold religious in high reguard because it's not easy.
2006-12-20 06:39:12 · answer #1 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Your premise is false. Christianity is far more accepted than is the Goth style or Satanism.
So here are the better questions:
Why did you think that it was okay to lie about this? Didn't you think that we'd see right through the lie?
Why do you think that it would be "backwards" for people to be more okay with Goths or Satanists promoting their religions than with Christians doing it? You obviously just assumed that's backwards, which reveals prejudice on your part, particularly in light of the fact that you'd just told a lie against our nation, and another in lumping Goths and Satanists together.
If your goal was to show us that Christians have loose morals and hate America, you were effective at it. I have a feeling you were aiming elsewhere, though.
2006-12-20 06:34:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Indeed satan is behind it. He is constantly trying to corrupt people, our society, our soles. And many people (not only in USA by the way) buy it cause it's easier to go that way. It's easy to be evil, mean, not to give a thing about others and salfishly do whatever you want without thinking of the consequences. They say "the world is mean to me, why should i be different?" But the world itself isn't mean. Mean people make it mean. If everybody tried to improve it it would become better. But it requires a lot of work, your very supreme efforts. A faithful Christian has to control and restrict his actions, thoughts, feelings, follow certain rules, comandments to live his life the right way while it takes nothing to give in to evil.
American society accepts the fact that satanists and anarchists promote their cults because it is obsessed with consant trying not to offense anybody. It sarted from protecting citisen rights but now it sometimes comes over the edge. In 1930-s everybody was considered to have a right to be a Nazi. A hope evrybody remembers how it ended. Promotion of cults based on hatred, not caring about other people may result even worse.
It's great when society is based on principals of freedom, rights. But freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want bacause one's freedom ends where others freedom begins. So leting satanists and pagan cults loose while Christians' rights are infringed is not freedom, not equality. It's very wrong that when Christians try to stand for their rights and beliefs, as you say, "all hell breaks loose".
P.S.
To Voodoid :
I bet all Founding Fathers were faithful Christians and they would hate to see what their country is being turned into by stupid a22holes like you. They wanted to create a free country for free people not for crazy satanists and whitches.
To sister steph:
I totally agree with you. Your answer is 100% what I ment to say. It's the very best here.
2006-12-20 08:10:28 · answer #3 · answered by shp_alex 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are terribly mistaken. There is no fact that goth, satanism and anarchism are more widely accepted than Christianity. If that were the case, our laws would be very different. (Side point, anarchism is not a religion).
In addition, any promotion of religion will eventually be met with opposition in a society where the people have freedom of religion. It doesn't matter if you are talking christianity, islam, hindu, or the occult.
And as far as being bassackwards, that's completely a matter of opinion. If your assumptions were true, we would be much better off and, in my opinion, beginning to straighten out rather than become backwards. Cults such as christianity are a plague on mankind and should be plucked from the earth never to return.
2006-12-20 06:50:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Not all Goths are Satanists, and vice versa.
How do Satanists promote their lifestyles in public sphere that effects the populace? When did "In Satan we Trust" get added to the currency and so forth?
There is a requirement to give Satanists the same opportunities as Christians, but they don't get any special treatment. Everyone is granted religious freedom in the United States.
2006-12-20 06:31:50 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs. Pears 5 · 10⤊ 0⤋
As a former atheist and a current believer in Christ, I have a unique perspective on both sides. I couldn't stand Christians who would be "in your face" talking about Jesus. My standard answer was "you delusional, non-free thinking mother f****r, being spoon fed a bunch of BS." Most of the ones who approached me didn't seem like they knew much of anything, just toting the party line. Faith, and Christianity in particular has to be freely accepted without pressure from anyone or it accounts for nothing.
Goth and Satanic style is more widely accepted because it does not demand that you "look in the mirror" and confront what the bible calls sin. Without a genuine faith, no one wants to hear that they are by nature, bad. There is a positive side of Christianity but that would not answer your question, and the information is readily available.
Have a great day!
2006-12-20 06:47:05 · answer #6 · answered by x 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
So, dude, can you like back up yer facts.
You actually think that there are more Goths and Satanist than Christians? That's a laugh.
Goth is more of a pop subculture than a lifestyle, also you don't find a lot of people knocking on doors, passing out tracts about "embracing the dark". Come to think of it, there aren't any Satanist doing that either.
Maybe if people like yourself would spend more time, what the expression? ......................... removing the beam from your own eye? You might find that people wouldn't run if they hear that you are Christian and you want to talk to them.
I don't stereotype Christians, I know some very fine ones.
Maybe it's not the world that's bassakwards, maybe folks are starting to realize that they don't have to be badgered if they don't want to be, nor can they loose their jobs if they don't bow down to the Christian loud mouths.
2006-12-20 06:45:42 · answer #7 · answered by Black Dragon 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't know of any Goths or Satanists that push their religion on others. I'm not really sure what you are referring to by their style. I don't believe the Goth style is truly accepted. Many are considered outcast for the way they dress. Perhaps people are less offended by them as they don't feel put upon by Goths.
I am quite offended when a complete stranger confronts me about something as personal as religion. Especially, by a religion that purports the way I live my life will lead me to a great punishment in the afterlife. The world is not backwards. It's nice your religion makes you so happy, but many people are happy just the way they are. If they aren't they know how to find you. They do not need to be sought out.
2006-12-20 06:41:06 · answer #8 · answered by Angel Baby 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I can honestly say that I've never had a satanist try and convert me.
Nor have I ever noticed stores nationwide closing down because of a satanic holiday.
I see lots of people wearing crosses every day, but I don't know if I've ever seen anyone wear a "satanic" symbol...I'm sure they do, but I can't remember the last time I've seen it.
I know I've never actually seen a satanic church. There may be some, but I find christian churches on every corner.
So, I'm really having a hard time figuring out why you feel that "satanists" are more "accepted" than christians?
I'm sure you feel persecuted, but I don't know why...
2006-12-20 06:34:05 · answer #9 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Well if you don't want the true answer...how are we supposed to answer your question. Christians are for the most part rude, judgmental, elitists, warmongering, haters. They think they know it all and have the truth for everyone. It is not your message of Jesus nor your religion per se, but it is in how christians deliever the message, live hypocritically and try to make your religion the law for all. The world is not bassakwards...it is logical. For every action there is an equal and oposite reaction.
2006-12-20 06:33:35 · answer #10 · answered by Medusa 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
for the same reason that many Romans pronounced as Christianity a dreadful superstition and stated far nicer issues about their personal gods. i do no longer recognize if each person nevertheless believed contained in the Greek gods at the same time as Christianity recognized, in spite of the undeniable fact that the Roman gods were customarily only a remake of the Greek ones. in my opinion, I call all of it mythology.
2016-11-27 23:19:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋