We don't hate you we love you desperately and don't want you to burn. We are no different than you just saved by grace, not because we deserve it but because we believe in the only begotten Son of God. I would be offended if my neighbor didn't try to wake me up cause they didn't want to wake me from a blissful slumber. Why is this so hard to see? Is it our fault?
2007-01-15 07:19:06 · 29 answers · asked by HAND 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I agree with you, my brother in Christ. It is painful to watch and it hurts. We need to continue to pray and do our best to serve God. Have courage.
2007-01-15 07:23:39 · answer #1 · answered by Schnickle 3 · 2⤊ 17⤋
ok look i'm agnostic okay anyway i was catholic and christian but i'm not anymore the religion turned me off why can't you understand that maybe people were christians as well but turned away from it because of what we saw was going on i appreciate that some of you truly do care so i don't want to sound like an ingrate but that's how i feel and i've always truly wondered if a higher power existed and i was baptized into the religion and i never truly felt that presence what i'm saying is that sometimes people tend to smother and push people away instead if you ever felt the way that i felt then you would truly understand where i'm coming from the last church i was in it seemed that all they wanted was money man damn it's frustrating i felt trapped and more lost so it didn't help me out at all it hurt me more then anything to be used like that and then the hypocrisy i saw as one of the pastors would preach about the spirit of god and then he'd go home and beat his wife and step kids
2007-01-15 15:36:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
So because you're an idiot, I'm supposed to do something different?
While I know and respect many Christians, the ones like you are like a person sleeping in an asylum. Pitied and avoided.
Quit acting like we've not heard your message. We have and have rejected it. Perhaps you should consider taking your head out of your nether regions. Your arrogance is breathtaking.
The insecurity in your own beliefs is astounding. You can't feel secure until you get everyone marching in tune with you. That's pretty sad, really.
You harrassing us because you think we are too stupid to see what you see, YES THAT IS YOUR FAULT!!!!
You can lead a horse to water. That's it. Quit trying to force us to drink!!!
2007-01-15 15:29:34 · answer #3 · answered by Radagast97 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's a poor analogy. Fire has been proven to burn and kill people. That's an indisputable fact. Your religion is a belief, not a proven fact. Like it or not, your book isn't proof.
It's kind of like me saying that YOU are the ones in the burning house and the only way to save you from yourselves is to make you not Christian. I doubt you'd think that was a good thing. I imagine you would resist me and proclaim that I was wrong.
You've told us we (nonChristians) are going to Hell. We get it, we just don't believe it.
2007-01-15 15:30:16 · answer #4 · answered by crista 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting that you say that when you follow a religion that burned many, many people at the stake for not "waking up". Better to start their eternal burning early, I guess?
And I don't know how to make this clearer to you - there IS no fire. It is just an illusion. You fear the fire because you fear death. The son of your god did not grant eternal life. Life was always eternal. It is your own dogma that keeps you from seeing this fact. I am sorry that some of us are ahead of you on the spiritual journey, but please stop trying to drag us back to where you are.
)O(
2007-01-15 15:26:08 · answer #5 · answered by thelittlemerriemaid 4 · 9⤊ 0⤋
It's always nice to try on other perspectives. For instance, some (not all) atheists consider it their moral duty to help Christians and other theists "wake up" from their fantasy about higher powers. We care about you as real people and want you to make good decisions based on reality, not a 2000 year old work of fiction. Have a truthy day!
2007-01-15 15:30:28 · answer #6 · answered by vehement_chemical 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
That's quite arrogant... Maybe the "Non-Christians" houses aren't actually on fire, that's just the way you perceive it, and you're waking them up from a really nice dream for no reason - that'd irritate me! Each to his own, I reckon. [Besides they're probably just doing that fancy cooking where the alcohol in the pan catches fire in that impressively bright blue flame and you mistakenly think the house is burning down. Don't get me wrong, I think you're trying to do them a favour, but you just haven't quite understood what's going on in their houses...]
2007-01-15 15:29:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Because I do not accept the idea of "original sin", the notion that we are tainted from birth and intrinsically bad, as does Christianity. Thus, I do not need "saving" in the first place.
I also would never worship a god that would burn people simply for not worshiping him.
2007-01-15 15:29:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Its like my neighbor coming over every hour to tell me that my house is burning down and I keep insisting, "NO ITS NOT! I'm just barbecuing!"
The neighbor keeps responding, "NO, Your house is burning down and you're sleeping."
"NO! I'm not sleeping, I'm wide awake and I'm barbecuing steaks!"
After a while the neighbor is so annoying and I finally say, "If you bother me again with your hysterical misinformation, I'll be forced to have you restrained! Thanks just the same for your concern but you are worrying about me for nothing. Go home and mind your own business. If I need assistance I will call you...thanks for the offer but NO!"
Are you alarmed when a Moslem, Hindu, Jehovah's Witness comes to tell you your house is burning down because you're using your fire place? Are you annoyed with them when they keep insisting that if you use your fire place, your house will burn down because theirs did 2000 years ago? I didn't think so. I'm not alarmed either by your predictions concerning "my house."
Sometimes we just feel like rolling our eyes at the mass hysteria of superstition and fear. Don't you feel the same about people who try to warn you about their false ideas about what is dangerous? I'm sure you do and you won't tolorate it anymore than I will. You religious people remind me of cave men who are afraid to use fire and reason.
Sure fire and reason can be dangerous but they can also be so very helpful in improving life. Learn to use them both well and the human condition will improve greatly.
Please evolve already. I am very concerned for you...its dangerous living in fear. Its dangerous to love safety more than life. Its dangerous to not question authority. Blind, unbridled FAITH is as dangerous as a bunch of lemmings falling off a cliff.
Of course you probably don't agree but that's okay, I won't insist. I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
2007-01-15 15:39:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Your analogy only applies if the house is really on fire. What if your neighbor, with the best of intentions, woke you up night after night after night saying that your house was on fire? Once is ok. Twice might be ok. After the 20th or 50th or 100th time you would start getting annoyed with him or her.
We understand that you are trying to help. But we don't agree with your assessment of the situation.
Thanks for the nice thoughts, though.
Good question!
2007-01-15 15:26:46 · answer #10 · answered by Alan 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Could it be because some of you are constantly trying to shove your religion down our throats. And you don't seem to get that we all worship the same God, whether he he's called Yahweh, Allah, or if he has a female counterpart! We respect you're beliefs, and yet some of you don't seem to respect ours.
Did Jesus preach love, tolerance, respect. And doesn't your bible say Judge not lest thou be judged yourself?
And it wouldn't it kill you to realize that we don't want to hear about what Jesus said? Or that we really don't want to be proselytized?
2007-01-15 15:45:35 · answer #11 · answered by Silver Wolf 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋