Please Explain, for example-- I never thought about it, I choose not to be, I don't know what it is, I think it's stupid, whatever. Just please be serious. Thank you for your answer.
2007-01-13 16:22:01 · 27 answers · asked by Julia 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I gotta alot of good answers, so I am going to let the public decide on this one-who should get the best answer. Thanks so much for all your answers!
2007-01-16 09:01:58 · update #1
I was raised Christian. I guess by the time I was 14, I didn't really believe, and by the time I was 21 or 22, I was definitely an atheist... No reason to be a Christian if you don't believe any of it.
2007-01-13 16:24:59 · answer #1 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Roman Catholic, but when I went to college, I had a serious problem come up while attending meetings with other "Christians"...many did not know why they believed what they did, or if they DID know, it was always for a "guilty" reason (I'll go to hell if I don't, I don't want the end of the world to come and be wrong, etc). This made me question MY reasons for believing what I did, and I found, through study, that if Jesus wasn't trying to start a new religion, why should I believe in that religion? I also started to wonder why he was considered so special on the words of people who may not have even known him, but they wrote words in a book nonetheless. I am also a person who seeks the truth and eliminates the false, and while I believe that Jesus might have known some truth (be kind to others, treat everyone fairly), I do not think that he had a monopoly on the truth. There is also truth in what the Buddha says, in what Mother Theresa said, in what the Dalai Lama said. As religion is really the creation of ideas to find answers to the tough questions, I don't believe that only one person would be given the answers, as not all answers work for everyone.
2007-01-14 00:41:21 · answer #2 · answered by jlene18 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not because I have no time, or transportation. The ladder may seem stupid, but I'm also the kind of guy that is into authenticy and what good is a christian who doesn't go to church?
Secondly I think the other answers are foolish, it isn't right to go about analyzing religion useing facts and analytical study, religion is a faith-based operation. Those arguments have about as much use as a rating of a person's looks useing a pH scale. Obviously if you don't need a reason for believing, you won't. The purpose isn't really to prove they're right, it's to give hope and provide support.
2007-01-14 00:41:23 · answer #3 · answered by adklsjfklsdj 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think it's stupid, but their Bible is just not anything that I believe any more than I believe any other religion's holy books.
That's kind of like asking why aren't you Jewish or Hindu or whatever. People who aren't Christians generally are not because they don't believe the Christian teachings.
I do believe that Jesus lived and that he was a wonderful prophet of God. He preached love, generosity, peace, being kind to people, etc. Those are not the things that Christians demonstrate, however. I also do not believe that he was the son of God.
I am a Unitarian. We believe in one God and tend to be pacifists and very tolerant. We have no book of rules that we must follow nor do we have any doctrine except love.
2007-01-14 00:45:44 · answer #4 · answered by crista 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I am a muslim.
I've been a muslim from the day I was born.
1st:.
I am not a christian right now because I love my religion.
2nd:
My religion accepts jesus and many christian teaching
3rd
While we accept many teachings of christianity at the same time some parts of christianity doesn't make sense to me.
for instance,
1) If jesus was god then why did he worship god?
2) If jesus was god then why did he die?god can't die?
3) If he was the son of god why did god let his son die?
4) If he died for the sins of man kind then why is there a hell? sinse he died for the sins of man then sins shouldn't exist in man anymore after jesus.
I mean a person can do anything and still go to heaven according to this believe.
5) If jesus was the son of god then why is mary called the virgin mary?
6) If jesus was god or the son of god then why should humans try to be like him(we are human we can't be capable of following the teaching and triditions of a god or a son of god?
Just because he had many special powers doesn't mean he was the son of god. It just means that god gave him these powers without having him as a son.
2007-01-14 00:43:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an Ex-Christian because after many years of studying the bible I came to the conclusion that the bible God is an immoral, sadistic, deity. I base this not only on all his actions and atrocities he commits but also on the fact that he would create a hell and then send people to it just for not accepting him. What kind of God tortures people for all eternity? What kind of God sets people up for the fall and then makes them suffer? I do not believe he exists in the manner in which most Christians picture him to, they like to picture an all-loving, all-powerful, all-knowing, etc.. type God, which simply does not exist. I do believe the Christian god exists, but I choose not to worship him on moral grounds.
Also, someone once asked me a question that got me thinking, why would you worship a Middle Eastern God, you're not Middle Eastern. Very true. So I started doing research on various European Gods...Norse Gods, Greek Gods, Celtic Gods, etc... I found that the Norse Gods I actually had come connection with. They do not punish people who do not worship them. They have much better morals and values then the Christian God does. So, that is why I am now an Asatruar.
2007-01-14 00:32:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was raised Southern Baptist. Always questioned starting around 12-13...got in trouble in Sunday School for arguing with my teacher. As I got older and really started studying the bible, I just couldn't get the sense that it was real. This plagued me for years. I tried so hard to live my life as a good christian. I even tried other flavors of christianity, but nothing made me feel that god existed. So by process of elimination, I decided that I was an atheist. It was the most enlightening experience ever. I felt as though a weight had been lifted from me. I am truly happier than I ever was. I do respect others for their belief in christianity. I may joke about it from time to time...and I get upset when I am called immoral or evil and constantly told I am going to hell or that I REALLY believe deep down. I usually lash out in those instances, but for christians who don't hound on me I totally respect.
2007-01-14 00:30:07 · answer #7 · answered by Stormilutionist Chasealogist 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I was always raised in church, and was a practicing christian up until my teens, at the age of 15 I became involved with another guy from Church, he then abused me. Later on, I became involved with yet another guy who abused me, and at the age of 18 I was sexually assaulted. No matter how much I've prayed for help, it has never come. I have spiraled downward into a deep depression, and have never felt like there was anyone on my side. And I believe IF there were a God, and he really cared about his so called "children", he would've been there for me in my time of need. But he wasn't. So obviously, he must not be there, or just not give a crap.
2007-01-14 00:29:41 · answer #8 · answered by Ashley R 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The great Christian doctrine of the virgin birth, if looked at logically, is similar to a series of divine births of both Hindu, Egyptian, Persian, Greek and Old Testament gods. Herein lies another 2000 year old case of plagiarism in the first century of the early Christian movement. This mother and son relationship was universal among pagan nations. Each nation would have their own name for their gods and goddesses, but they all adopted each others concepts. This was mainly due to one nation conquering another, and absorbing each other's cultures. Later, this pagan culture was absorbed into the (un)holy Roman Empire, and ultimately by the Roman catholic church. Notice the similarity between the catholic Madonna (Mary) and the Egyptian Madonna (Isis). It amazes me how people never research history or understand how history repeats itself.
2007-01-14 03:59:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I was born a Jew, I love Judaism, I have been in a state of exploring my religion my whole life and I feel no need to convert out...really, for a faith based question you can not expect a logical answer, as I have no proof to back myself up, but there are very few thing about Judaism that I dislike. And in anything in life, if there are only two or three minor details that you take some degree of issue with, you are doing alright!
2007-01-14 00:27:21 · answer #10 · answered by 4ever learning 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋