how can one be religious with out offending anyone?

Answer 1

Listen we should not worry about offending others. What you believe is your right that no one can take away from you. That doesn't mean we have to force our beliefs on others. I myself am a christian and I will preach the good word if the oppurtunity allows for it. But just sitting at wal-mart screaming in a microphone is going to drive more people away than help people in need out.

Answer 2

Just try not to talk much about it around people you know that aren't religious. I am religious, also. There is someone at my school who is religious. If someone makes a mistake, he'll ask them if they are a christian. That bothers me because he acts like he never sins at all. My advice is to just be yourself, but try not to point out the sins of others. It says in the bible that you shouldn't judge people unless you, yourself, are without sin.

Answer 3

Did not Jesus offend several religious leaders in his days on Earth?

May you receive a large pleasant surprise there today to God's glory!!!

Answer 4

there will always be those who are offended by anyone whose beliefs differ from their own.

but i think generally you can be religious and not be offensive by not pushing your faith on others and showing tolerance for their beliefs or lack thereof. i am generally not offended by anyone's personal spiritual philosophy unless they use their faith as an excuse to start making unfounded assumptions or generalizations about other religions.

Answer 5

Don't claim that your religion is the only "true" religion.

Don't try to threaten people with things they don't even believe in.

Don't try to have your religious beliefs written into law.

Don't tell everyone that they are wrong and only you are right.

Don't go preaching door to door, in the mall, or anywhere else.

Realize that no matter how firmly you believe something, that belief does not make it fact.

Answer 6

Simple.
Someone else put it best when they said, "Religion should be like underwear - on the inside."

- Do not preach racism or anti-LGBT hatred or bigotry.
- Live in your own spirituality without feeling the need to call it more "right" or "godly" than someone else's religion, which is false.
- Do wonderful things for other people without thought of reward.
- Refuse to give in to the urge to proseletyze and "convert" others.
- Treat others as you would like to be treated.

In short, be true to your teachings.

Answer 7

Join the United Church of Canada. They specialize in that.

Answer 8

Depends on what you mean by religious, any particular one?

Answer 9

It is written that when you love God enough to share His word with others, you will be persecuted. That just goes along with the job. But that is what real love is...even loving those who hate you without reason, as Christ did. Also I like this quote someone posted recently...

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

it is also written, "Love does not take offense..."

Answer 10

We cannot. And the issue is more on the receiver's side than on the sender's.

You see, offense, is personal, measured by one's own morality and values. What I may be doing, wearing, or saying, may not be offensive to my own sense of morality and values, but they could be offensive to another's.

As Chistians we have a higher moral authority, God, who has laid out for us how to act, speak, etc. If we follow these laws of God to the letter the offense others' feel is not of our own doing, but rests with the receiver.