What have the Christian sect done to cause others to dislike them?

Question

All these other "religions" express how much they detest the Christian sect, but why? What have they done to you personally for you to detest them? Be honest with your answers!!!

fun... how so and what laws would affect you personally?

So far none of you have answered honestly.

What have they done to YOU personally? To one poster... what you have stated affects all "religions" not just Christianity.

Shelby the quotes has nothing to do with being a "cult". "Religion" in quotes is nothing but speaking about all other "religions".

Answer 1

Yeah, but none of those things were done to YOU. Even if laws are passed banning gay marriage; unless you are a homosexual, they don't affect you. Why hate Christians for things done in the past? I could say I hate Spaniards, whose Conquistadores led the slaughter of Natives in South America, but since it didnt' affect me, I have no right to hate them.

Christians don't "hate" gays. True Christians don't "hate" anyone, since we are called to love. I find gays kissing disgusting, that doesn't mean I hate them. I have friends who are gay.

The last abortion clinic bombing I'm aware of was in the '80's, and just about every Christian agrees it was WRONG. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Oh, and the Bible is NOT derogatory towards women. There are two books in the Bible devoted to courageous women doing extrordinary things (see Esther and Ruth). Plus, the very first person to witness the resurrection was *gasp* a woman! Mary Magdalene (the wrongly accused whore). There's also the tiny detail of Jesus being born from a woman (since we're the ones who can give birth), but non-Christians tend to gloss over these issues.

Answer 2

I don't like how Christians try to stuff their faith down my throat. I hate the arrogance and the hypocrisy that comes with most Christians. I hate the fact that the Christians of this country have no will of their own and let a great but severely flawed fairy tail run every aspect of their lives.
I hate the arrogance that Christian lawmakers have trying to impose their own biased beliefs into the law books, forcing good American citizens to feel like outcasts and pariahs? Banning gay marriage? Gay people have the right to be just as miserable as everybody else!
I hate Christians who tell me that I MUST BELIEVE IN CHRIST OR I WILL DIE IN ETERNAL DAMNATION! This is not the 1500s, and there are many proofs out in this universe that tells me that organized religion was great for people hundreds of years ago when the common consensus was that the world was flat, and the universe revolved around the Earth!
Wake up, children! The fairy tail is over! Let's expand our minds and prove that human beings are more than just hairless apes!

Answer 3

In history, the Christian church has treated other religions unfairly. (Think Crusades, think Inquisition!) I don't know if you are just venting, or if you really want to know, but I am telling the truth. Modern-day Christians may not be the same people as Christians in history, but they do follow the same path, so it isn't ludicrous to think that the two groups are similar.
Frankly, it isn't "right" for the followers of other religions to detest Christianity, instead of specific Christians, but horrible things HAVE been done before in the name of Christianity. Again, I'm not saying this is has to do with PEOPLE, only with the religion. Also, I'm not saying that horrible things haven't been done in the name of other religions.
To expand on what I've said, think of the "archetype" of the witch. Green, ugly, hag-like, flies on a broomstick on the full moon, and loves to stir up potions with ingredients such as bat wings and baby blood. This misconception was created by the Christian Church when it was trying to gain power. The Church officials manipulated the works of the country-folk, know as Pagans. (Also known as Wiccans.) For instance, "bat wings" were really holly leaves -which look like bat wings! Broomsticks? Farmers used to straddle their brooms or pitchforks and hop around all night around their crops, trying to show the plants how high to grow. Green and ugly? That just came from years of conditioning and perhaps a few fairy tales.
I'm also NOT saying that fanatical groups are right, either. Impeaching George Bush and elected Osama won't help our country. (Nothing personal, whoever wrote that...)
No one can get around the fact that some modern-day Christians are hypocrites. For instance, when I was FORCED to go to church, I would hear the preacher say on Sunday morning not to drink and dance, because both are sins. However, the night before, he could be seen through the windows of the bar, drinking or dancing (or both!). This is an example of the main points that have caused animosity towards Christians and Christianity - many (often the outspoken ones!) are hypocrites! SO many modern people have experienced discrimination against them because of not being Christian.
Personally, I find it offensive that you (the writer) put the word religion in quotations. It allows the reader to imply that followers of other religions don't actually follow a religion, but more of a cult. Perhaps Christians should be more willing to accept other religions if they want followers of other religions to accept them.

Even more...people don't even have to experience DIRECT discrimination, etc., but just take a look at HISTORY! Some of the things done by Christians n the name of Christianity have affected nearly every person on this Earth. History itself should be giant book on how to learn from other people's mistakes, but modern people (Christian and non...) haven't learned that yet...

Edit: This may sound like a Christian-hate page. It isn't, necessarily. The person who asked this question literally asked other people to tell what their problems were with Christianity! It seems to me that the person asking the question may be naive about the grand scope of their religion, and how it affects other people.

Answer 4

Oh where to start...at the beginning

john the jealous bastard
the roman conversion
the crusades
the knights templar
the Inquisition (what a show)
the witch persecutions
the Klan
the United States of America
Evangelicals
Horny Priests
Gay drug taking married Ministers who advise the President and deny their soul
I particularly love how they tell me I will burn in great pain and fear in the everlasting fires of hells damnation if I fail to bathe in the blood of the lamb before I die. Why does the poor lamb have to suffer (stop!!! I know it isn't a literal command - yet)

Shall I go on? Nah...you get the picture

However that being said I like and Love a great many Christian people, Muslim and Jewish and Hindu and Sikh and purple people...because they are good people who do not judge in the same manner as the righteous religious right (so wrong wrong wrong)

Answer 5

They're not all bad, I'll admit.

But the good ones don't speak out against the bad ones and don't do anything to fight them. So, they tacitly approve of them (I mean, if they're not saying anything against them, I have to assume they approve.)

Plus, most Christians just aren't Christ-like. They believe a bunch of crazy, hateful lies formed by the church, not by Jesus. Jesus was a cool guy. Liberal. Magical. Loving, kind, and absolutely non-judgmental.

Jesus never said, "Believe in me or go to Hell. You'll burn forever!" He said, "Go and sin no more."

He helped the poor, the sick, the marginalized. He loved women, the mentally ill, and the morally bankrupt.

As Gandhi said, "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ."

Plus, all the stuff above, add that to my answer as well. I'm not retyping all that, but I agree with it.

Answer 6

they think of we are idol-worshiping, pagan-loving, polytheistic cannibals who march in lockstep with a guy who's God in the international interior the Pope. None of it incredibly is actual, and with the aid of and massive maximum human beings of it incredibly is a smokescreen to furnish an 'enemy' because of the fact not something brings human beings at the same time than somebody to hate. To Protestants: Please examine, from a Catholic source, what we Catholics have confidence. ninety% of what I see leveled it incredibly is flat out incorrect and 10% is a misinterpretation. additionally, i might invite you to think of roughly why Protestantism began. it began out because of the fact some human beings thought that they might 'restoration' the Church with the aid of breaking off and forming their very own team. Its fairly actual that the Church had its problems back then. Indulgences have been reprehensible, working example. besides the shown fact that, it wasn't sufficient, and human beings thought that *they* might desire to do a greater robust job, and splintered off of the splinter communities, until we get to right this moment and it incredibly is thoroughly nice for some random man or woman with a excessive high quality talking voice to compliment to commence a church in keeping together with his interpretation of the bible with none thought for the millenia of scholarship and custom that have been positioned into the prognosis and dogma of the religion. I mean, I see "Christians" here on YA! who declare their church says the Trinity isn't actual, that Jesus wasn't God, that Jesus became not the word made Flesh... incredibly each long fought and long defeated heresy from the 1st 2 centuries of Christianity as quickly as we did not have a company draw close on what had only occurred has come roaring back. It makes me shudder. additionally, what occurs whilst the splintering maintains? I went to a Unitarian church some months back and that i'm particular that that's what is going again next. whilst Protestantism splinters to the factor that persons get to outline their very own ideals, that's without postpone drawing near if not already here, then the only 'church' that would stay is one that fairly touches on any subject of religion in any respect 'We belive, until you do not, that's nice, in one God, yet once you think of its 3, thats nice too. or maybe 2, in case you think of the Spirit is made up..." *shudders* we elect a heavily prepared and orchestrated authority to maintain us all on an identical website.

Answer 7

Okay, I will be honest Frist of all when I was still a Christian, I followed the bible and did what it said and those who were faith only would make fun and mock me and ridicule me and say mean things, and Pentecostals would try and cast imiginary demons out of me and my dad threatend to shoot me he was a good Pentecostal and finally my parent and sister took me to court, lied and had a free attorny and turned my kids against me. I had one Full gospel preacher to sabotage my machine and then go to the boss and try and get me fired. why?

Because I refused to beleive the way they told me to. Is that enough reason for you? I am now pagan, wicca is my religion and I am much happier.

Christians can be very violent if you stand up to them and especially if you can show passages in the bible to support your beliefs but showa descreption in what they beleive.

I might also add that every single time I was attacked it was after months of those people asking me what church I attended and I never told them, but as soon as I did the atttacks started.

Answer 8

Have you read any history at all?

The Crusades ring a bell? How about the Inquisition? How about the witch trials (Salem being the most famous)? I can keep going. After all the years of studying history in University (odd what Universities consider valid education for a degree in Biology), there is no other religion that has caused more pain, suffering, hatred, prejudice, and terrible terrible acts than Christianity. They've shaped the world but they killed, tortured, and raped to do it.

Most recently, in the US alone, they're trying to force prayer in schools, they don't want to allow the removal of "Under God" from the pledge (even though it was added in the 50's against the Constitution), they're having a fit about removing "god" from the money (even though it was added in the 50's against the Constitution), they're trying to remove science from the science class room and institute religion in its place, they trying to deny the equal treatment of all peoples by banning gay marriage, they're trying to deny the need for abortion (there's always mitigating circumstances that they like to ignore. Things like a 10 year old being raped by her father and getting pregnant), and they're trying to deny things like stem cell research that could heal millions of suffering people while fighting the teaching of contraception (and thus perpetuating diseases like AIDS).

So tell me, what HAVEN'T they done?

I've had people follow me down the street preaching their god. The Wiccans in my college were denied the ability to have Yule ritual in the Atrium because it was called a 'disruption' while the Christians were allowed to have mass in that same Atrium. And about 10 years ago, a store in my city was forced to close because it was a Pagan store and a bunch of kids killed themselves (the parents found Vampire: The Masquerade books and books on Wicca in their rooms). Their parents started picketting the store and harassed the living hell out of anyone going in and out of the store. Patrons didn't want to be harassed.

And the bloody Christians just keep saying "But our religion says its ok" and everyone lets it go.

Well, guess what.... its not ok.

Christians need to learn to keep their religion to themselves. If they want to believe, then I'm fine with them believing. What I have a problem with is that they want to force everyone else to believe, to the point where they're trying to force it through law.

Christianity has done alot to this world and its done alot to me. None of it good.

Answer 9

Making a stand for God's truth over mans truth.

Incorrectly representing the perfect love of God that is in each of us. This is primarily due to our own lack of understanding of what perfect love really is and how to express it in healthy ways.

Answer 10

I hate to categorize people as a group, but I'd have to say soliciting and even in some cases bribing non-Christians into converting. I don't tell Christians they're wrong about their beliefs or leave little pamphlets telling me I'm going to Hell, so what gives them the right to do that to me?