Why is it that most "religious" people seem to be the most cruel and judgmental?

Answer 1

Speaking only of Jews and Christians, we are told to write the truth and mercy on the tablets of out heart.
Unfortunately, most people it seems only get the truth part.
All truth and no mercy makes you cruel.
All love and no truth makes you a piece of spaghetti- no backbone.
If you have BOTH, then you have the truth coming from a motive of love.
And you are right...we can be the most cruel.
Especially if you are in the church and do something inappropriate. I've heard it said that Christians tend to shoot their wounded. They tend to make their firing squads in the form of a circle. Sometimes they don't restore someone to fellowship. They don't forgive. God has a surprise for them.

Answer 2

I am a christian and I will say this. The problem is that some people are claiming to be christian andwhen you have trust in them then they will take you down. It is in the bible also. "There will be false profets in the last days". But not all of them are fake be carefull. There are some christians that think that if you don't live for Christ and that if you don't believe and some times Christian people will shunn you but if they doo, ignore them and keep pressin on, They miss understand what we are supposed to do. But real christian the ones were if you walk by you notice something wierd or if you talk and you notice the love that person has than they are a real christian.But that aint always true, cause I am a christian and you problebly won,t feel anything when I walk by cause I am still learning what to do and I keep falling but God keeps sticking out his hand and pulls me right back up and helps walk through. But what you said is a truth some people claiming to be Christians will think that they are in the right but they aren't and the will make you feel like you are nothing sometimes. Just remember that they are not true and you need to keep living for Chist. Read the Bible it will help better than I can. Just read it and you will see.

Answer 3

I wouldn't say that "most" Christians are cruel and judgmental, because they're not, but I would say that THE most cruel and judgmental people tend to be Christians. The ones that are like that can be the absolute MOST evil and sadistic monsters ever put on this earth. (Like that whack job religious sect from Georgia that shows up at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, and hold up signs saying "God Hates You!" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers!" and "God Hates F*gs!"--not because they're protesting the war, but because they are saying that we're AT war because God is punishing us for tolerating homosexuality. They TORMENT the already grieving families in the name of God. You couldn't be crueler if you planned for a million years.)

Answer 4

That is because most religious ones many times forget, thattheir faith is about making themselves better, disciplining and judging their own actions in order to make themselves worthy of whatever Divine Deities they worship.

Instead, many religious ones get puffed up with Pride, Vanity and Arrogance, armed with the weapons of being "Holier-than-thou" begin judging OTHERS and almost never themselves, being mean/cruel to others under the license of Religious/Godly sanctions and in the process get more lost than the lost ones they themselves are trying to save or rescue.

In this process they do not realise the "subtle trials" that their Lords and Ladies have sent to test their faith and devotion, and continously fail these trials WHILE believing ( in denial ) that they are passing with flying colors, i guess during the Ultimatum "Graduation day", we will all know who were the faithfuls of Divine and who were the "self-deludeds" ones.

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Answer 5

This is so TRUE.
I was forced to attend Christian Boarding School, and I saw this demonstrated first-hand for 2 years. The meanest, rudest, and most cruel "Christians" were the staff at the school. They would scream at a girl and humiliate her in front of everyone, THEN proceed to preach at us about God's love and how we all need to be "saved."
If I could say one thing to Christians it would be... ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.
The fact that they run around trying to point out what everyone else is doing wrong, illustrates their lack of understanding of the Bible and the teachings of Christ.

Answer 6

This statement in itself is cruel and judgmental. Is YOUR religion hypocrsy?



Aside to Tommy, like most dogmatic and faithful athiests, you have your facts wrong. The largest number of people killed and the most suffering has been done in the interest of stateism. Your wonderful athiestic states like Stalinist russia, North Korea, Nazi Germany, and other wonderful anti-god utopias are responsible for murdering hundreds of times more people than all the misgiuded wars fougnt in the name of religion. If you are proud to be an athiest and have such a hatred for people of faith, you have to be doing so from a position of denial.
Bigotry is bigotry, and secularism is riddled with it.

Answer 7

Because most monotheistic religion is cruel and judgmental?

Buddhism is actually just the opposite.

It has often been said the Buddhists are perhaps the only true Christians.

I agree.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 8

In order to control people, religions have been cruel and judgemental to their own followers. They in turn pass that cruelty and judgements onto non-believers. Just like the bully in the schoolyard who is beat by his father, he in turn beats the kids on the playground. Not all religioius people are that way, but the ones that are really stand out.

Answer 9

Why is it that most "anti-religious" people seem to be the most cruel and judgmental?

Answer 10

Religions are by nature cruel and hateful. Some of the bloodiest wars in history have been fought in the name of religion. All the religious texts that are used to justify whatever belief they adhere to have violent passages that can be interpreted in a way to justify this hatred. When these passages are brought to their attention they always say "you are taking it out of context" but they fail to use that when they themselves take "something out of context". Find a passage that says to shun gays and lesbians and they will do that but the passages that tell them to love all peoples will be ignored. All religions are mean, hateful, and hypocritical. Makes me proud to be an Atheist.