Why do some hate fundamentalist Christians? Do you even know what a fundamentalist is?

Question

I looked it up in the dictionary. It is foundational belief.

Islamic fundamental belief are totally different thatn Christian fundamentals.

Answer 1

One person answered: "because christian (and islamic) fundamentalists are the most annoying people on the planet who spend their entire lives trying to force their religion down other peoples' throats.

Maybe you've heard of a little group called the Taliban? They are the alter ego of christian fundies, they just have a freer hand to get what they want. "

I have to address this!

1. I believe that the most annoying people on the planet are people who try to convice the world that Christian fundamentalists try to "force their religion down other peoples' throats" as was said.

2. The Taliban is not the "alter-ego" of Christian fundamentalists! Heck, this was addressed on the TV show "The West Wing" best when the character Josh Lyman compared "Islamic Extremists" to the Ku Klux Klan.

You might not like Christian Fundamentalists or what we stand for, but we aren't strapping bombs to our chest to go kill people because of their faith. And lumping us in the same category is very, very insulting.

Getting back to the original question: Why do some hate fundamentalists Christians? My answer, plain and simple, is "Ignorance" ... and that ignorance is shown by the poster that I spoke of above!

Answer 2

Islam and Christian fundamentals are different because they are different Religions. Now if a person wishes to adhere to the fundamentals of their religion, without dragging other people into their decision... more power to them. When the Fundamentalist decides that the laws are undeniable and begins to kill others because of a broken law, THEN they become a Fundie - which is, more or less, slang for a Fanatic.

Look at it this way... if a Pagan Fundamentalist who follows the Norse Pantheon decides to declare "war" on his neighbor who is a Christian and starts making open attacks, physical and verbal and continuously does so to the Christian.... and then moves on to include ALL Christians... wouldn't you end up hating the "Fundamentals" because of how that one person deals with them? I'm sure most people would. Look at how Islam is portrayed and they claim THAT is the Fundamentals of Islam (though some Muslims would disagree).

And, actually, Fundamental was not used as a term for belief till it became a denomination... and they were similar to the modern Evangelicals who scream about how terrible everyone else is while trying to appear "Holy" themselves.

Answer 3

Here is the American Heritage definition:

"A usually religious movement or point of view characterized by a return to fundamental principles, by rigid adherence to those principles, and often by intolerance of other views and opposition to secularism."

What is their to love about that?
Since Fundamentalists are very intolerant of others, why should others be tolerant of them?
If you cannot love or tolerate something, the only thing left is hate.

So to answer your question:
Intolerance and hatred beget intolerance and hatred.

Fundamentalists are well known for their hatred/intolerance of homosexuals, communists and Jews ... to name a few.
I have met some very nice Fundamentalists who are children of God in every sense but the vast majority will live their entire lives with huge timbers in their eyes and hearts of ice. Jesus' words of love and tolerance have little meaning to those searching for reasons to justify their feelings of "righteous" anger and spiritual superiority.

The focus of the Gospels is to help people make wise choices when faced with new situations. The rest of the Bible is all about specific behaviors that were unacceptable to the people of the day. The teachings of Jesus provide wisdom for the ages and all the rest were just cultural prohibitions for the people of that age.

If any fundamentalists read this,
stop thinking why I am wrong for one brief moment and ask yourself:

"When was the last time you quoted the words of Jesus when trying to make a point or read the words of Jesus when faced with a difficult choice?"

The Gospels of Thomas, link below, is my favorite collection of His teachings. They are fragmentary but every time I look thru them they seem more complete.

Answer 4

As said a million times I do not hate anyone or anything. Fundamentalist Christians believe in a childish version of Christianty that humanity should have grown out of by now at least since the Enlightenment. Sadness rather than hate is what I feel concerning them.

When I see fundamentalists of any religion I weep a little for mankind.

Answer 5

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian




10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."


3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

Answer 6

we live in a fallen international. somebody interior the international is being taught to hate you no count number what your faith, or lack thereof. i'm confident the respond is sure for some fundamentalist team someplace. some everybody is taught to hate human beings, some to hate Jews, some to hate gays, some to hate Catholics. The human race is a bad bunch of people -- this is why all of us desire a savior.

Answer 7

There is no such thing as an "Islamic fundamntalist" - its a Christian term erroneously and ignorantly applied to Muslims

A Christian fundamntalist is one who believes the Bible is the unchanged word of God - some Christians dont but still believe in Jesus

A Muslim must believe the Quran is the word of God - if you dont belive it your not a Muslim

Although Muslims dont worship the Quran and analogy with saying you can be a Muslim and not believe the Quran is like saying you can be a Christian and not believe in Jesus

Answer 8

Do you know what a Wiccan or a witch is? Or do you just assume that we're Satan worshippers, deceived by the devil, practicing blood sacrifices of babies and children, and should not be suffered to live?

That is why I do not keep company with Fundamentalist Christians and do not take the time or effort to hate them. They insist they understand my religion better than I do, and I'm sure you would agree it's very insulting to be told what you believe.

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Answer 9

I think paranoia makes fundamentalist Christians think that others "hate" them. Paranoia is a symptom of fundamentalism. Mistrust of others and a feeling of being persecuted because they're "right". Along with this, fundamentalists want to control the lives of everyone (not just themselves), to suit their own narrow religious views.

Answer 10

As a Christian who is a fundamentalist, because I believe that the bible is the inerrant word of G-d and that it rules our life, I understand that the world which hates G-d and what His word represents, hates those of us who believe the way we do. This is not unlike any other social squabble in life. We've had forever blacks against whites, the Irish against the English, Greeks- against Turks and so on for millenia. Certainly the Jew is hated because they, at least the Orthodox (fundamentalist) ones, stand for G-d and for His word. Some of it is as much attitude as anything else. It is possible for those who are liberal in their faith to get along with the conservatives as long as they both uphold the divine inspiration of the scriptures. The church has had warring factions along various lines of doctrines, yet we agree on the deity of Christ, His resurrection from the dead and ascension into heaven. Would that people learn that the basic element of all faiths is about how we can get along with our fellow man.