Intelligent answers?
2007-02-15 07:34:42 · 14 answers · asked by Tanya Pants 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For those who say it only bothers you when people try to force it on you...what are you doing HERE, willingly participating???
2007-02-15 07:44:08 · update #1
Because they do not know the Lord. We will be persecuted. People get angry at what they do not understand. A good Christian should turn the other cheek at such anger and respond with kindness.
2007-02-15 07:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by shepherd 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I personally am very tolerant of religious people. I think that the real intolerant people are the Christians. There are a lot fewer atheists world wide than there are Christians. Christians believe that they need to make everyone else (not just atheists) see what the think is true. Politically, the reasons that atheists are ever intolerant is when religious people try to make us live by their morals. Christians do not like the Jihadists in the Middle East telling the other Muslims there to live by there morals, and they started a war about it. Look how intolerant they are. No one should care about how other people live there life, as long as they are not hurt by the other parties' doings. Every way you look at it, you (hopefully) can see that people always want others to see things their way. This applies to everything. In politics, science, law, even in the area of television (what is who's favorite TV show). People, in general want everyone to think there way. I think that, if something isn't putting us in immediate danger, why worry about it? It is not really a religious question that you are asking, more sociological, in my opinion.
2007-02-15 07:58:49 · answer #2 · answered by xXxkaylynxXx 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think at least in part it is for the same reason some believers get so bothered by Atheists having faith that Jehovah does not exist. When someone firmly believes something that is diametricly opposed to one's own beliefs it can be very frustrating as almost nothing you say can disway that person.
2007-02-15 18:21:19 · answer #3 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because faith in God isn't something that people just keep to themselves. Faith in God affects lawmaking in this country. It affects education, it affects foreign policy, it affects people's rights, it affects scientific progress, the list goes on and on. No one has any problem with the single mother who needs the Bible for inspiration in her life, or the family of four who just likes to go to church every Sunday and minds their own business. Those people are fine and aren't doing anything wrong. But the problem is that Christianity in this country is being put in many places where it completely doesn't belong -- and people are actively TRYING to put it into places where it doesn't belong. THAT is what atheists have a problem with.
2007-02-15 07:44:08 · answer #4 · answered by . 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, it's just that we're concerned for you. You seem to be putting off so many opportunities to make the world a better place because "the world doesn't matter." You avoid pursuing social justice because "God will take care of it." And there are these wars that get started because people don't agree on which salad dressing God prefers.
We think that it would be more productive to concentrate on solving the problems of today than on assuming the correct posture for the afterlife, for the sake of humanity in general and your own well-being. (We also think your God would also get a better idea of your capabilities that way, but this logically violates our first premise, so we won't pursue it.)
2007-02-15 07:50:14 · answer #5 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Faith, by and of itself, does not bother me. What faith causes people to do bothers me a great deal.
If your faith leads you to blow up a building, kill a homosexual, deny public services to people, criminalize constitutionally protected behavior, or attempt to indoctrinate myself or my children, you and I would probably have a big problem getting along.
On the other hand, if your faith doesn't harm other people, I'm ok with you.
2007-02-15 07:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by marbledog 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doens't bother me one bit. If having faith comforts you and helps you get through the night, who am I to tell you not to? So is it okay with you if I say I don't need faith to live my life? If I say that, am I "bothered" by you?
2007-02-15 08:16:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't bother me.
Except when they start ranting at me, telling me I am wrong and evil, and going to burn in hell.
GASKINS: thank you for your very spiritual contribution
BETA_FISHY: what a truly lovely Christian response. Thank you so much for that.
TANYA: we are HERE answering a question YOU asked us. How quickly the young forget!
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2007-02-15 07:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by abetterfate 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That doesn't bother me.What bothers me is when people with faith try to force their beliefs upon me and then abuse me when I don't agree with them
2007-02-15 07:39:58 · answer #9 · answered by rosbif 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is a very silly question.
It doesn;t bother us that you have faith.
We don't care what you believe in your home.
We don't want to stop you from believing.
WE DON'T WANT YOU FORCING YOUR BELIEFS IN THE SCHOOLS< OR POLITICAL ARENAS!!!!
We don't care what you believe....we just ask that you leave us the heck alone...and leave our children the heck alone.
2007-02-15 07:39:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋