Many people come here and slander people with different beleifs than them. We all have a right to believe what we want to it should not matter to anyone else what you believe.
for example there are alot of religions in the world and alot of people believe in each one and there are also people who do not believe religion to be true and believe science can give us all the answers. Some of these people think that everyone should believe what they believe and they all say they have evidence to back it up and then they try to push their beliefs onto someone else. Why do people do this to each other? As an example do you think god if he really exists would be happy about christians puting other people down just because they dont beleive the same religion?
My belief is that although i dont believe in religion it has helped us develope and keep some order in society and i dont try to push this onto other people. I only hope people will accept that i have my own veiws as i do theirs.
2007-01-04 12:05:42 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's great but religions push there agendas and dogma forcefully onto people who don't agree with them. Those people have the right to disagree and explain why.
Don't they?
2007-01-04 12:13:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree to some extent. If someone really believes a certain religion, chances are he believes everybody needs it, and that any religion saying the opposite is mistaken. That's logical, isn't it? However that is a far cry from running down and insulting other religions, and calling people stupid or evil who don't share their belief. Belonging to the right religion, according to christianity, is not what get's you into Heaven. It's having a right relationship with God through Jesus Christ. So many "Christians" are no more Christian than the most convinced Hindu is a Christian!
Christianity is not about feeling superior. It is about saying "I don't deserve anything but Hell, but God in His mercy has offered salvation". If that is true, then there is no call for a Christian to boast about being in the right religion, or to despise someone who is in another religion.
I realize not all of what I am saying here will be satisfactory to you, but I do agree with much of your point.
EDIT:
Having read other answers, I would add that debate is fine, but we can be polite, charitable, respectful, and loving. To be anything else, (I speak for Christians here) is far from convincing, for one thing! Yes, le's debate, let's pull out all the arguments to back up our beliefs, that's fine. But let's do it respectfully.
Another point: Some here seem to believe only Christians are at fault here. I haven't noticed the same thing. there have been an equal number of disrespectful non-debaters within all beliefs, or non-beliefs. It is more upsetting to me, however, when I see people who claim to be fellow Chrisitans acting that way, because they bring shame on the name of Christ.
2007-01-04 20:13:00 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well......
1) I completly agree with you. I am a christian, but i NEVER force anyone to believe what i said. I let htem know that I THINK that they are wrong, but i never put them down for believing something else
2) You said that some people believe in more than one religions or believe in them all. That is highly incorrect. It is impossible for someone to be of two religions or to be of two things. It says in the bible that no servant can serve two masters. Either he will love one and hate the other or he will hate the one and love the other.
Both Matthew 6:24 and Luke 16:13 say this:
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
I believe that this does not apply just to believers. It is an example of something that happens naturally and logically. I am sure that someone else has said this outside of a religious sontext.
2007-01-04 20:13:58 · answer #3 · answered by Master O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll have the same arguments when people talk about baseball.
Me, I believe in the One True God and all the false religions have caused sufferings and killings throughout history.
2007-01-04 20:09:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, if people continue to think that they are the one and only true religion, and there are more than one of these religions that think so, then there's always going to be controversy.
2007-01-04 20:08:09 · answer #5 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
`yes i get done that way i don't believe the earth getting warmer
it cost me when i buy a car it the people who be it animal right
they try push it on me people who don't smoke i can't have a bar
that i set in because some one deon't think i need a place i can do what i want seat belt maybe i don't want wear them yet someone tell me i have to what i wrote is some one believe beside mine gay right why it got be brought in to the church let us what we want to kkk can't they believe what they want
2007-01-04 21:01:49 · answer #6 · answered by rnd1938 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The do this for the same reason that you promote yourself as 'above the fray', beyond the spats of others: to develop a self-concept and identity.
2007-01-04 20:14:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya but when christians come on and ridicule others about why dont you accept the lord and savior of this planet it heats it up, and thus begins the debate.
2007-01-04 20:08:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK, now I'm irritated. there's a difference between a right to express adn the right to never be argued with.
2007-01-04 20:07:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I agree, but good luck convincing the majority on here, they would not even come here if not to "show their asss" in my opinion
2007-01-04 20:12:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋