Atheists: Granted, you don't believe in God. Other than annoying holier-than-thou attitude of many?

Question

Christians, do you really believe that Chrsianity is a bad faith?

Answer 1

Yes I do. Every religion that tries to take away basic human rights and even succeeds at that, should be outlawed.

The freedom of a woman to choose how she uses her own body, the freedom of homosexuals to love, etc. If religion gives humanity problems, it's a bad religion.

Humanity and the basic human rights for all human beings is far more important than the faith in a fairy tale.

Don't get me wrong, anybody is free to believe whatever they want. A long as they don't try to force their religious ideas into the political arena.

Answer 2

There are too many Christianities for an answer to be possible. Even the denominations can't agree. I know and respect plenty of Christians and there are ways of behaving that I admire completely. But they aren't exclusive to Christianity and many (or more) atheists live moral and sound lives without a god. Meanwhile, people use their Christianity to justify some very, very bad things. On balance it's a bad thing. If they were all as they should be it would be different. But they are not.

Answer 3

A true atheist doesn't really think any faith is "bad," because we don't care about others' beliefs. At least I don't. There aren't any bad faiths, just bad people. If some religionists were less hypocritical, did less proselytizing, and stopped treating atheists like we ride to school on the short bus, maybe we'd get along better.

Answer 4

I believe that most religions breed exclusivity and separation. They limit diversity. They also spread misinformation in order to support their belief system in the face of differing information. For these reasons, I believe religions in general are not good. While some have some redeeming qualities (like charity work), the control of knowledge is still alarming.

Case in point: Evolution. While I can understand questioning the Theory of Evolution as it explains how diverse life flourished (since we don't have ALL the information), you can't deny the fact that organisms genetically evolve to incorporate beneficial mutations. However, there are many people whose faith has led them to deny this simple fact. They honestly don't "believe" in evolution. THIS is a travesty. The lack of understanding of science that supports this denial of evolution is even more disturbing, but would have to be blamed on our education system. Even that education system, however, is stifled by Christians who don't understand the science of evolution, trying to keep schools from passing on this invaluable understanding of our world to our children. I think this clearly demonstrates why religion is generally not helpful.

Answer 5

As an Uber Christian I would have to say yes. It's hopelessly convoluted and contradictory. It's very bad. All of us Uber Christians and regular Christians as well should resolve ourselves to the hopelessness of our lot and prepare for an eternity in hell. The only hope we have is to collectively reject this madness for some other crazy state of rationalizing our existence and frankly I've invested to much of my consciousness into this faerie tale to remove myself now so it's eternal damnation for me, it's the only thing that makes sense.

Answer 6

Any religion that holds ignorance as an ideal is a bad faith. Religions that believe in talking animals, genocides as good things, rapists as future husbands, and magic over reality are not good things.

Answer 7

I believe any faith that is used to deny rights to others or make people feel guilty to some angry man in the sky with the threat of eternal damnation is bad.

Answer 8

I will say this twice, the first time without my opinion of religion, and the second time with it.

Without:

First, let's deal with the rarest of rarities, the christians who keep their religion to themselves and never talk about it outside of their home or church. Such people cause no harm, so I don't object to them.

Second, those who carry their religion openly and talk about it. They unfairly afflict those who don't want it, much like people who unthinkingly use racial slurs and see it as acceptable, that it's "not hurting anyone".

Third, those who inflict their religion on others are no better than rapists, and usually worse. Some/many/most would like to create "solutions" (usually, final solutions) for those who won't join them or pervert - oops, convert - to their religion.

Now, with my opinion:


First, let's deal with the rarest of rarities, the christians who keep their religion to themselves and never talk about it outside of their home or church. Such people are wasting their time instead of being using their time to be productive, and worse yet, poisoning the minds of any children they have.

Second, those who carry their religion openly and talk about it. They unfairly afflict those who don't want it, much like people who knowingly use racial slurs and see it as acceptable, and pretend that they're "not hurting anyone".

Third, those who inflict their religion on others are no better than rapists, Nazis, sociopaths, and usually worse. Some/many/most would like to create "solutions" (usually, final solutions) for those who won't join them or pervert - oops, convert - to their religion. The only reason more godbots don't commit violence is because they're either spineless or they're concerned that they can't avoid responsibility for the crimes they would like to commit.


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Answer 9

Not saying it is a bad faith. More worthless than anything else.

Answer 10

A gun is not a bad thing until you put a nut behind the trigger.