I am curious as to why most people feel uncomfortable with the topic of church or God or Jesus?
Is it fear? Do they feel as though they will be judged? Is it the way most churches have portrayed the love of God?
Thanks for your feed back it is greatly appreciated.
2007-01-15 12:48:19 · 12 answers · asked by rev_rbm 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Personally, I find Church/Religion controlling and not in tune with reality. It's difficult to get any love from God of the Bible or the Quran. Unless you are doing what He want, whatever that is, you are not in his favor. God's love is conditional otherwise he will punish you, either now or later. If that is what you believe. Plus, I like truth. The deal is with Church/Religion is that if you come across some truth that happens to be contradictory to the Church, they fight tooth and nail. My favorite example is Galileo, here is a man that had proof that the earth moved, yet he was charged as a heretic. It wasn't for many years after that the Church finally accepted that information. Yet this was the truth, why didn't God provide that information to those people, who supposedly had that direct line to God. And that still happens to day, many new and wonderful things keep coming out and there is some Church/Religion out there that will fight tooth and nail.
Basically, the truth is by far more important to me than any Church or Religious organization out there.
2007-01-15 13:03:47 · answer #1 · answered by AZeus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me it has nothing to do with religion itself, it's the people that make me cringe. I choose not to believe in god, but I've found myself in church a few times over the years for various reasons. The thing I always hate is the barrage of people wanting to hug me, welcome me, invite me back, etc... All the touchy, feely, can't take no for an answer, people. Why can't they understand that I'm there in support of a friend or whatever and have no desire to return. People act like it's a personal insult that you don't want to become a member of their church.
I've had people take it as their personal mission to convert me. They just can't understand that I'm happy with my own beliefs. It's incomprehensible to them that anyone could possibly believe anything other than what they believe.
So, in a nutshell, it's the members of the church. Not the church itself.
2007-01-15 12:52:32 · answer #2 · answered by DishclothDiaries 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Church symbolizes the surrender of rational thinking to a religious leader. It does not symbolize religion. Religion is something between a person and a Holy Book. As far as I'm concerned church is something which is redundant.
2007-01-15 13:03:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I traded emails with their webmaster, the pastor's daughter or daughter-in-regulation. no longer positive which. I stated that in all their activities and internet website i'd in no way heard or considered Christ reported once and requested what their view of the Biblical call to evangelism became She on the prompt stated I wasn't attracted to any of their perspectives and that i knew it and that i became going to hell or i'd already understand their perspectives because they are God's perspectives, and she or he began to inform me all the justifications i became going to hell and accused me of being a fag or assisting them. I spoke back to her i became no longer a gay, yet when the ladies of her church were generic lady i'd strongly evaluate it, which brought on yet another quite belligerent lady to start up emailing me insults to boot. As a veteran I actually have found their presence at military funerals, properly, despicable i wager is the word. And as a member of the ACLU i became dismayed, as with the Skokie Nazis, to discover my money assisting the loose speech rights of someone who if I had my way does no longer have the ability to talk because i'd be choking the existence out of them.
2016-11-24 20:15:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i believe it is because we live in a world were nobody wants to be accountable for your own actions so if you go to church god just might show you some things and you don,t want to see it so you can put the blame were you want to but it is not the church or the people if somebody is hammering you about money find another church that teaches basic bible if it is not in the bible and there teaching it there wrong find another church one that teaches truth
2007-01-15 14:53:10 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus is the Way 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well i think because some churches try to CRAM religion down your throat and also some will go on and on about giving MORE money to the church...that in itself is a turnoff not to want to go back!!
2007-01-15 12:57:00 · answer #6 · answered by sugar_n_spice 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's boring, and a lot of the people who go are nice in church but real jerks at school or work.
2007-01-15 13:03:18 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is that so hard to understand?
Because of the behavior of Christians. It has nothing to do with the religion and everything to do with its followers. Read a history book sometime.
2007-01-15 12:52:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because Jesus never went to one.
2007-01-15 12:51:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it's because most churches are boring and they beg too much for money.
2007-01-15 12:51:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋