Ok so I get the fact you think we are all brainwashed. Wrong- but I get it. I am so freaked out be some of the responses of atheist that I gotta ask- what kind of convuluted cult did your information come from?
My beliefs are nowhere near anything like what you are saying about Christians. My church is nothing like anything I have read. Man- if you have really experienced what you are saying- heck if I had experienced what you are saying - I would run fast and not look back from that church or religion. You are in the wrong place baby.
I just don't get the hate and the misconceptions. So I want to know your church experience.
Mine's pretty basic- NONE- wasn't brought up in one Nope- wasn't indoctrinated. Didn't become a Christian until my late 20's. After college, 3 years after my first child. No societal influence- believe me no-one I knew was Christian.Felt a little tug in my heart... now I am a Christian. Believe me nothing like what you guys are saying about us.
2007-02-13 05:24:25 · 37 answers · asked by momof2 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am really trying to understand this. Not getting much help. BTW I never siad my experience was better- I just said my experience is (sit down...)- My Experience. that's it. No agenda.
Christianity is not a cult. The problem I am seeing is with religion in most answers. Religion is the problem. Believing in Christ is not. BTW- believing in Christ has nothing to do with anyone else. Christianity is the act of believing in Christ. Can I please get some more real answers. That make sense. Maybe the religion was wrong for you.
2007-02-13 05:40:01 · update #1
My experiences as a Christian have come from many different denominations. I was brought up as a Christian and tried several denominations, looking for acceptance, and truth. I generally found that there were many good Christians but also many judgemental Christians as well. Over time I made a point of learning what the leadership in these organizations were really like, and what was happening to offering and tithes. I really suggest doing this as it will open your eyes. My experience was that the money was being misappropriated, and that the leadership were all very political, judgemental and mean spirited. It is sad but true. I wouldn't say I hate Christianity anymore, I did at first, because I felt deceived, but now I just feel sorry for it.
2007-02-13 05:34:25 · answer #1 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm...interesting. My religious experience was bland-I grew up going to a church I chose to go to when I was five. Liked the bldg or something, I guess. My parents are 'Christian' but never really tried to force it down my throat. The preacher was nice enough, his daughter was a *itch but that hardly had any influence on my beliefs. Instead, over the years, I just couldn't believe that a 'loving' deity would allow the horrors of the OT to happen. The 'tough love' argument was just silly when someone who has already been hurt by some worldly event gets punished by being sent to 'Hell'. Since Hell is in the Bible and that was incomprehensible to me, I started reading the rest to see what was 'real'. I didn't get very far before reading the Bible turned me into a non-believer. Just the creation story brought up questions with no logical response. Like, if Eve already did not know the difference between good and bad, what was to stop her from eating anything? How could she know if following God's orders were good or bad? How would she know death was bad? Since then, I've been aware that everything has an opposite in nature, so how could a singular deity exist? I know Satan is his opposite, but supposedly he's not an equal, so that doesn't make it perfect. And, the theory is, He is perfect, right?
I'm reading a book called 'The Jesus Mysteries'. It mostly seems to be describing Gnosticism and it's ties to pagan religions and the more literal Christianity we've been taught. It's upbeat-I don't find it hateful at all. I emailed back
& forth with a Gnostic-It seems to be more about teaching, not preaching.
2007-02-13 05:54:36 · answer #2 · answered by strpenta 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an atheist but I am definitely not a christian... anymore.
I was raised in a christian church, by Christian parents, and went to a christian school. I was told on a daily basis that I was not to question but have faith. I was taught straight from the bible and I must admit that I enjoyed those stories when I was little, but even as a little child I knew, intellectually, that the stories could not possibly be true.
Then when I got older and realized that the "church " used the bible to promote bigotry and hatred of anyone who was different, and I realized that no matter what I prayed for or how hard I prayed, that nothing ever happened that couldn't be attributed to coincidence, and I was told on a regular basis that I was nothing, I realized that christianity really wasn't for me. It did help that I really never believed any of it to begin with though.
I don't know about other people's experiences but I think mine were pretty typical, nothing spectacular.
2007-02-13 05:36:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The whole "us" and "all" part is what invalidated this question. I don't hate Christianity. The religion itself has its benefits and drawbacks just like any other belief system. I am extremely irritated with people who feel our entire legal system should be structured around their own breed of Christianity, all living creatures should follow that breed without question, and anyone opposed even slightly will be headed toward damnation and public scorn.
Its good to hear you're not like that, even though I could care less about your beliefs- you're entitled to those. So am I. So is anyone else. Its the people who would disagree with that statement many of us have a problem with.
As far as people needling you and being idiots- well, being an ****** doesn't have any religious boundaries... Anyone can do it, and you will see a lot of it on here. This is a free-for-all.
I hope your experience on Yahoo improves, though.
L8R
edit: andymcj66 hit the nail right on the head.
2007-02-13 05:41:01 · answer #4 · answered by B-Hole 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Think about the zealots and extremists and you'll see that it IS true.
Its NOT Christianity thats the problem. Christianity I can deal with. I don't agree with it in the least, but I can deal with it.
Its the Christians themselves that are the problem because so many of them are extremists that accept nothing else but their religion. Maybe you've been lucky enough to find a church that doesn't treat you that way but most of us have not.
Look at the things Christians justify doing using their bible. All you have to do is look at it.
They don't agree with things other people are doing because of their bible but they think they have the right to regulate what everyone else is doing whether that person wants them to or not.
2007-02-13 06:10:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm not atheist-I'm Agnostic-but I understand their views..Honey a lot of people who are Fundamentalist, Evangelicals and Baptist to name a few,try to place their beliefs into our government and schools,which is wrong according to the Constitution of America and that Constitution is what makes this Country great! I was forced into Catholicism ever since I was a child and so many people were force fed the same garbage and they are now atheist.So try to understand that some people cannot stand religion and what it does to "some" people not all.I have met many nice religious people and sadly)more not so very nice religious people-This and alot of their hate is why not only atheist dislike them, but many people, even from the same covenant dislike some of them as well.
2007-02-13 05:41:10 · answer #6 · answered by Art 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm the son, grandson, nephew & cousin of Methodist ministers.
In college, I majored in religion (& also vocal performance) & then spent a year in seminary. But I left when I realized that, as a gay man, the United Methodist Church would never ordain me. But that was a long time ago, & I now work as a psychotherapist & consider myself an atheistic-agnostic student of Buddhism.
The full range of Christianity is what I've rejected. All the way from Fred Phelps to Liberal Christians. If you think Jesus rose from the dead, and want to convince me of that, then we have nothing to talk about.
If, however, you think that Christianity makes sense for you, but that other thoughts about life are equally compelling to other people, then we have a lot to discuss. Just don't attempt anything close to evangelism in my direction unless you are prepared to hear all the reasons I think they qualify as fairy tales.
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2007-02-13 05:31:04 · answer #7 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋
I have seen with my own eyes the cruelty and intolerance of so called Christians...and they are more of the majority than not. The fact that most of the Repub. party are Christian shows how many of the Christians have turned from the Biblical principles set forth by God. I don't consider myself an athiest by any stretch of the immagination, but I do have a problem with the beliefs of 90% of church-goers...
But I do love Jesus, it's his followers I have a problem with.
2007-02-13 05:32:32 · answer #8 · answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Why the lies? no one hates Christianity, god or Jesus yet undesirable Christians that post such as you do are the reason Christianity suffers so! Anti atheism is doing lots harm to Christianity that that's in certainty anti Christianity – David Manley It takes in certainty in trouble-free terms one to make a quarrel. that's ineffective for the sheep to bypass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, mutually as the wolf continues to be of a diverse opinion. - William Ralph Inge. Why so unaware of what reasons the backlash against christianity? all the different religions and atheists stay in peace and are in trouble-free terms attacked via undesirable christians which reasons all sturdy christians to melancholy on the wear they do! Up till approximately 40 years back Christianity grew to become into thriving and there grew to become into no conflict with others yet in basically those few short years the famous christians are becoming to be illiberal, hate crammed, bigoted and persecuting ensuing in a becoming backlash against christianity and inflicting christianity to unfastened over ten p.c. in below a decade with the loss accelerating! The self destruction of Christianity is underway and the only difficulty that can provide up that's to desert the unfavorable human thoughts, seek for to rediscover the belief of a loving god and act like it! Posts like yours thatcontinual human beings greater far flung from God are employing you in direction of hell. So who're you working for the devil or the antichrist via fact it specific ain't the loving god!
2016-10-02 02:06:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why did you choose to beleive? Is it mainly because you do not want to go to hell?
What did you think of hell when you were younger? Did you beleive in hell as a child? IF not, why did you change your mind as an adult?
I'll wager you were "pressured" into religion by a boyfriend or some other family member.
And yes, I was raised in a protestant church where the pastor committed adultery, his teenaged daughter was an unmarried mom, and my own mother physically and mentally abused me. Yet both my mom and the pastor claimed they were good christians. To me they were hypocrites. Thats why I left.
2007-02-13 05:32:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋