2007-02-08 19:16:55 · 28 answers · asked by Brofo 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The insidious tactics they use to turn peoples' brains to mush.
2007-02-08 19:49:27 · answer #1 · answered by Rabble Rouser 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
~That a lot of them are hypocrites. I'll go to church and see people that know me, but they stick their noses up in the air. This hasn't only happened to me in a Christian church. The pastor of the church I used to attend is a hypocrite. He's a completely different person in person.
One "friend" who is a Christian helped me move while putting me down the entire time. If she didn't want to help, why didn't she just tell me that? She would only call me a friend when I would be doing everything she wanted, even her sister noticed this. We aren't friends anymore.
I do have another Christian friend though, he's cool. It really depends on the person.
Then there are others who think their better than everyone else.
I believe in God, I pray at home and I believe he hears me. I'm far from perfect and I haven't been to church in a long time.~
MARK, you say you're a Christian, but you are making serious judgments.
2007-02-09 16:09:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lakasenna- Where did you meet Christians like that? I want to know so that I don't get around them either!. I have been a Christian for years now and never met one of those!
My Bible teaches that all men will sin but not that they are all inherently bad. No one is perfect is all that it is saying. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that you have to follow every command to get into Heaven. Just one, belief in Christ. That's all., The rest we are to strive to follow. I can wear what I want to Church, I REALLY enjoy sex and sweets, and it is allowed. It is even allowed to be fun! The one with the psychological problems is you. You were either kept a captive by a sociopath using religion for his favorite delusion, or you are a compulsive liar.
2007-02-09 03:39:28 · answer #3 · answered by mark g 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Once one of my very respected teachers, who was a pious christian, told me that I would get rid of all my problems if I chose Christ as my Saviour... I did share some of my gnawing problems with him, but I did not expect this type of advice... I remained calm and later did not know how to resume communication with him, since I much respected and valued his relationship - he too was much attached to me perhaps because I was good at studies... Then I broke the ice, writing a long letter which I hope would serve as a probable answer to this question as well...
I told him - in the letter - that what I gathered from Lord Jesus's message that we accept Him as our Saviour was... the same as what Lord Krishna asked of Arjuna during His counsel at the battle field - to surrender to Him completely while doing his duty...
In either case, the message was not the commonly held religious view that people accept the form of Jesus or Krishna as the ultimate, but the DIVINITY that they represented... in which case a believer in Divine dispensation - whether xian / hindu - was a follower of God...
For those who do not believe, it is not a question if any religion has acceptable or appalling messages... Unfortunately all religious clerics insist that their own perception of Godhood is right and all others are wrong!
2007-02-09 03:59:26 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Christians
2007-02-09 03:21:54 · answer #5 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
the blatant hypocracy, and most un Christian behaviours of many of them. Not all, however, but many. COndemning others to hell, telling people that they 'will pray for them', shoving Jesus down peoples throats, the cloying, braying about Jesus, and the holy ghost this, the holy ghost that. God, I could fill a book about the appaling nature of Christianity.
2007-02-09 03:21:51 · answer #6 · answered by Nestor Desmond 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The Christian directive to convert everyone to Christianity. It's the attitude that they have a monopoly on truth that bugs me.
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gandhi
That said, I have known some very nice Christians who were tolerant of others.
2007-02-09 03:25:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Its core teachings!
Perhaps the best place to start would be that which makes Christianity essentially Christian -- the existence of Christ, and his crucifixion. The concept of another person dying for you might fill some people with joy, but I fail to see how telling someone that they are responsible for an innocent man being humiliated, tortured, and killed, is beneficial. Not only is the person responsible, she is directly responsible: Christ died for her sins. It is her fault that a man was brutally murdered. The guilt inspired from this is immense: since it is her fault, she must "make up for it" somehow -- by being Christian, by accepting that Jesus was God, by being a good person, by going to church every Sunday. After all, it was her fault he was killed, so the very least she could do is accept him as ruling her life.
The subjects of "being saved" and "original sin" also tie in here. The doctrine of original sin basically states that we are all born imperfect -- that we are by nature dirty and sick creatures, who are incapable of being "good" in our natural state. Our best-laid plans will go to waste, and all our good intentions will turn to rot and dust. In essence, you are telling a person that they are born worthless. There is, however, a way for the person to 'redeem' herself and become something 'good' -- by accepting the additional guilt that Jesus was mutilated and killed because she is only human, because she (like all humans) has strengths and weaknesses, good points and bad points. But instead of accepting this -- that humans are naturally both good and bad -- it is emphasized that all humans are bad and will never amount to anything unless they have an innocent man suffer for them. This, too, I cannot see as anything but psychologically and emotionally damaging.
The very basis of Heaven and Hell themselves, of sinning and forgiveness, are horribly cruel things to impress upon a person. No matter how good a person you are, no matter how sincere or kind or generous, if you do not obey every command in the Bible or given by your church, you will burn in Hell forever. It is, bluntly, a leash to keep people in line. Because they are naturally wrong and dirty, they need constant guidance to keep them on the "straight and narrow" -- guidance provided by either a church or a book, and always at the sacrifice of individuality. Don't wear this, don't say that, don't think, don't speak, don't do -- this is how to be a good person. Your natural desires, be it for sex or for sweets, are denied to you; your natural emotions are stifled, and you are told what to think at all times. If you do not think this way and wear these clothes, you will be punished forever. If you do not accept Christ as god and take up the guilt of knowing an innocent man was slaughtered for you, then you will burn in Hell. Again, how can this be beneficial to teach someone? That they must either give up their own minds and own lives, and not suffer; or that they can be themselves and be human and be punished?
2007-02-09 03:27:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
The missionary paradigm... Convert The World!
2007-02-09 03:20:39 · answer #9 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Simply the fact that it exists. It is so utterly lacking in logic that anyone ought to be able to see it as a fraud. Are we really supposed to believe that God created Jesus to intercede with God to remit sins? That is just as silly as it sounds.
2007-02-09 03:31:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋