now we all know if you take one sentence without telling the whole story in the passage or chapter it can easily be taken out of context. Anyway, I was just wondering why some sit around and read the Bible in order to do this. Why can't they just live and let live? If they do this to a real christian who reads the Bible, then obviously the christian knows what the story was about and pays no mind, so why try?
2007-02-19 20:57:03 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
shaolt200: case in point
read this man's questions and look at the answers. he bends quotes out of context. why do this on answers. find something constructive to do dear
2007-02-19 21:09:09 · update #1
I think they go to anti Christian websites, and pick the ones off of there that are out of context.
2007-02-19 21:01:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
Because SOME christians take specific verses in the bible while ignoring others in order to convert them atheists. After several encounters from them, some atheists will decide to read the bible and see for themselves if what the christians say is logical or true...
If zealot-like christians can live and let live the beliefs..well, the non-beliefs of the atheists, wouldnt that also be a place to start? So since the atheists already has his/her own understanding and a set mind about what the bible story means and pays no mind to the interpretation of the Christian viewpoint... why do Christians still try? Same reason...
The answer to your above question is the same as the question itself asked from an Atheist's point of view point.
2007-02-19 21:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Tiara 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do the small percentage of christians who have actually read the bible insist on taking specific scriptures out of context to beat others over the head with?
Bible quoting christians are incapable of carrying on a discussion in any other context. The issue of abortion is a perfect example. There is no story that addresses it. There is absolutely no biblical argument for the anti-abortion stance taken by those who occupy the lower levels of christianity other than disjointed, unrelated passages that SEEM to support their argument, while the ACTUAL word of their god says the exact opposite.
If you want to communicate with someone from France, you learn French. If you want to communicate with a radical christian, you learn how to distort the bible.
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2007-02-19 22:08:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
People who follow the bible always take the bible out of context, its the beauty of religion. You can take one passage and say it must be taken literally, but at the same time you can use the same passage and say that you must interpret it to bend it to your benefit. The bible was written by men in order to control the masses, and apparently it is very effective. Atheists read this book, in order to understand your view points, because that is what we do, we study and learn, we don't blindly follow and call it faith. We are objective and truthful, and the reason we can't live and let live as you say, is because we are not allowed to live freely, because religious people are always trying to control people. Muslims are doing it by force, jewish and christians are trying to take over governments and the rest of us are simply trying to make it a better world for people, not a religious background. 99% of all wars and conflicts are of a religious nature, its time religion stays where it belongs, in the home and in the church.
2007-02-19 21:04:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
To ask this question is to assume that there is only one context in which anything in the Bible can be understood.
It also seems to imply that 'christians' ALWAYS use the ENTIRE verse they are bludgeoning the world with, and that they are using it in its EXACT DIVINELY-INSPIRED context.
Kind of like the signs that Fred Phelps holds up saying 'God Hates Fags' with the verse from Leviticus beneath it.
Now THAT'S Christian compassion and using proper context.
Right?
2007-02-19 21:19:31 · answer #5 · answered by pasdeberet 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We are on a mission to save the world from religion. We want everyone to be free to make their own decisions. The world needs freethinkers and religion inhibits freethinking. The world has a lot of problems that need attention. We need all of you to wake up and think. Religion is the equivalent of burying your head in the sand. The only thing you learn about is sand.
2007-02-19 21:14:22 · answer #6 · answered by Vlasko 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
there are a number of Bibles seen to be the works of a God! What all of them have in uncomplicated is there creation via adult men of various cobbled jointly writings via adult men for the purpose of having means & administration over the susceptible inhabitants! regrettably even the supposedly clever fall prey to this additionally, for this reason this is undesirable effect on our international as we communicate nevertheless!
2016-10-02 10:42:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they sway weak-minded people and gratify their own hostility toward religion. I have greatly learned that whenever someone quotes the Bible to show "fault", if you read the entire passage in context the Bible will come out stronger because it is no error at all. Just for instance, one person quoted Mathew, Mark and Luke "immediately after being baptized, Jesus went into the desert for 40 days" but in the gospel of John "two days after the baptism he was calling the disciples, and on the third day he was at the wedding". But if you read the gospel of John, it does not even describe the baptism. All it does is say that John "testified" that he baptized Jesus already. John begins his Gospel after the baptism, then, and there is no error whatsoever. For all we know, John begins his gospel after Jesus' return from the 40 days. And that makes sense too, because John, unlike Matthew, Mark and Luke, begins his gospel on the day when he actually "met" Jesus for himself. He doesn't say what happened before he met Jesus, he just says John the Baptist "said" he baptized Jesus already.
2007-02-19 21:06:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Meh. I never feel bothered enough to attack Christians. But I can be provoked into defending my position by accusations of how I'm a sinner this, a sinner that, and how I'm going to burn in Hell if I don't believe in a certain somebody.
2007-02-19 21:11:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Myself, and the atheists I know... read the bible trying to believe and to learn. We really don't have to twist anything, the bible has alot of nasty stuff in it. Haven't you read the whole thing yet?
2007-02-19 21:04:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋