This may be a loaded question, but...?

Question

Why do those who have no use for God, the Bible, church, and/or prayer constantly use then as weapons against those of us who do?

Answer 1

Because we feel threatened.


The exact opposite of this question is true also, ma'am.

Answer 2

As for God, I have a use for God- just not the way christians portray God.

I have a use for church-My church is nature. It doesn't look like a christian church.

I have a use for prayer- I pray all the time...just not the way a christian does.


As for the bible, why, if we have no use for the bible, do christians use it as a "weapon" against us? Where did Jesus tell you to do that? Where did he set that example to a non-believer?
He quoted Torah, the Tanakh, and some Talmudic philosophy according to your bible, but that was toward the Jews of his day.


What I've found is that I know the bible better than most of you.. I've read it cover to cover in many translations over 50 times.. I get fed up with christians who throw scripture at me and think I don't have a clue what the actual context is, or they show their ignorance of their own bible with their usage of it.

If you're going to come to a debate, or provoke one, you should be prepared to defend what you put out there. If you don't want me or people like me using your scriptures, then don't quote them to us. If you choose to use a weapon, better understand how it works before trying to fire it off.

Answer 3

I don't know if there's a god, I think probably there isn't one. But the bible is a wonderful book with good, moral themes. Whether or not it was inspired by an actual god doesn't matter--it's a good philosophy to follow. Churches are not a bad thing--many churches do wonderful things for their communities. The Episcopal Church was the first, I think, to not only allow for the ordaination of women, it helped deal with the issues of AIDS. Other churches, of course, thought it terrible to help gays, etc. But I think generalizing about atheists, or agnostics, is dangerous in that when you over-generalize, you almost never can be correct. Notice, I said "almost never." I don't know how people use god or prayer as a weapon against the religious, but I believe religious people and non-religious people can be good or bad--it's their choice.

Answer 4

When it comes to god, not everybody uses the bible, church or prayer to express their beliefs about god. Having no church or bible does not mean that a person doesn't believe in god. There are as many paths leading to the source as there are conscious beings.


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Answer 5

How can anyone use something that is perfect and or good as a weapon? Hence god, the bible, church and or prayer must not be perfect or good.

Answer 6

You have to appreciate, religions are deadly things. You may not think so, but they are to many people who live on this world. We have no other home, and this one is under threat from great multitudes of our brethren who believe it's inevitable that our home and all our lives will end in a great catastrophic war, of good (their respective belief) versus evil (everyone else's).

The major religions involved in the ongoing, escalating violence around the world all contain some form of this belief, and it is subscribed to by their followers. Those followers kill one another over those beliefs. They pass those beliefs down to their children.

It may well be self-fulfilling prophecy. We now have the technology to destroy ourselves several times over, and there are 7 billion people and counting alive in the world, most of whom belong to one of those religions.

We non-religious types don't want to see that catastrophic end happen. We want to see how great and bright humankind's future can be. Sadly, we won't, if the forces of religion have their way. It can't. Our long-term survival is diametrically opposed to the doctrine of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Everyone who subscribes to those religions is working, either actively or passively, to bring about that end. To answer your question, finally, that's why.

Answer 7

They don't. Only those who have a use for them do. Some claim not to have a use for them, but they are really using them
in their arguments. Other folks don't care and have no
use for them whatsoever. However, it is probably annoying
to them that churches get tax breaks. In the end, it'd just be
nice if folks could be calm, nourished, and content both now
and later.

Answer 8

because the church (and christians in general) have used them as a weapon against the rest of us for the last 1500 years.

and the best thing to do with a weapon that is used against you is to dismantle it and find it's weaknesses and exploit them...

the bible just made itself very easy to do this with.

Answer 9

All I can say is that although many don't do that, you have to realize how hard it is to live in a world where a 1/3 of the population is smugly telling you you are going to hell if you don't believe what they believe. I don't think reacting immaturely like some atheists do is the right way to get that across, but please don't judge all atheists by that as you wouldn't want to be judged by those crazy Christians that do and say horrible things.

Answer 10

This may be a loaded answer, but you can't use love as a weapon, and love is the basis of everything Jesus taught and that Christians practice.

Answer 11

Because you have chosen the rules. You won't accept that there is no reason to believe there isn't a god because your book says it is true. So we are left with pointing out how absurd a book written in the bronze age really is.