Why do believers spend so much time worrying about what non-believers think about them?

Question

They ask the same generalizing question every half an hour, basically saying that because we have different views from them we are "bashing" them or "hating" them. How hard is it for them to accept that someone just might not agree with them?

Here's one SIX QUESTIONS below mine!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgN_tMPpkFwmOzT5JwueJIjd7BR.?qid=20070117152210AAMzDGh

I thought believers were supposed to be secure in their faith - that's why it's called faith, right?

So why would the opinion of a blasted non-believer make the slightest possible difference to any of you?
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There's no end of them - check out this guy's other Qs afterwards! He's obsessed!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtBSSSVWrSaYI_LQ4y.GM7Td7BR.?qid=20070117153456AAOw8os
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lookn2cjc,

It might sound like a bit of a cop-out, but your examples are obviously attention-seeking trolls. They exist on both sides, and I routinely ignore them. I don't think that's true of the theists who keep asking why we're here or questioning what we think. That happens too, but I wouldn't take Julia any more seriously than you do. But these questions are asked by people who seem genuinely concerned. My point is, they shouldn't be.

And I'd prefer if you didn't call me darling, however sincerely (which is 50:50 at best, I suspect).

Answer 1

I don't agree with you at all. I'm a Muslim and I don't spend anytime worrying about what non-believers think about me, or think about them at all.
I don't ask generalizing questions or any questions at all, as I'm really not concerned about there opinion on anything really. Does not take up any of my day. There are plenty of people on here bashing atheists, bashing Christians, bashing Muslims, hating atheists, hating believes I don't think it is restricted to one group bashing the other.
I have no problems at all accepting someone not agreeing with me. Just like I'm sure you have no problem accepting that i don't agree with your question. We all have to worry about our own selves and its no skin of my nose if someone else has no faith, does not affect my worship in any way what so ever.
Peace to you.....

Answer 2

I don't care what anyone thinks of me, since nobody here knows me personally anyway, save for a few friends. I wonder why atheists aren't spending their one big HOORAH of a life, doing something more productive than bashing Christianity all day long. And yes, I used the term bashing, because there are very few atheists who are genuinely unmotivated by ridicule on this forum. A brief look at the questions with an honest, open, intelligent, seeing mind will tell you that.

Answer 3

because they have been lead to believe that evolution and the big bang are impossible! No joke!

I saw this documentry that showed the Christain socailization tactics compared with the methods the Nazis socailized their citizents. The methods they socailize then endoctrine can really make them believe complete fallacys! Really, they are sooo damn simular i was stunned. Look how the many older Germans to this day believe of an arian race, When clearly they are wrong. There methods and christain methods on the psychology are almost identical.

Answer 4

i am a believer, but I spend a very minimal amount of time thinking about nonbelievers. The most attention I ever give to them is to pray that God's will be done, because it is His will that all be saved. Other than that nonbelievers have no effect on me or my life one way or another. God bless you.

Answer 5

If human beings start up writing law in accordance with their beliefs in Leprechauns, struggling with wars interior the call of the holy rainbow and sending toddlers to Leprechaun camp to be terrorized out of having a seen their own, i might want to be the first one to voice my opinion about why i do not position self belief in Leprechauns.

Answer 6

First of all, we don't care what ya'll think of us. If we did, we would go with the flow. Whether it be right or wrong. But truthfully,we want unbelievers to go to heaven. We are doing God's mission for us. That is also the meaning of life: to live with God & fulfill His task by getting more people to be His children to have eternal life. What's the harm in that? And you don't have to be so rude. Obvioulsy, I don't care if people disagree with me. It's their funeral in hell. Not mine.

Answer 7

It's a waste of time when there is so much else to do. We must all clean out our own back porches before we tell some one else to clean theirs.

Answer 8

I ask the same question of unbelievers....why would you spend so much time on a Religion & Spirituality post?

Answer 9

The only comments I see about bashing are when other people are talking about the one that is supposedly getting bashed saying that they're complaining about being bashed. I don't ever see complaints about being bashed, just complaints about the complaining about being bashed.

Answer 10

"Bashing" and "hating" is usually more than disagreement. Calling someone brainwashed, stupid, or uneducated, or intentionally blaspheming someone's god with crude or vulgar language is a far cry from disagreement.