Oi. I love Christians. So beautiful inside. I envy the spiritual discipline. Why can't we just leave them alone? The atheist should be concerned with his own intellectual development, and the Christian their spiritual development. How can we be true to our respective beliefs if we spend time attacking the other? No finger pointing now!!!
2007-03-02 09:24:44 · 33 answers · asked by Mike K 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Exactly! The whole debate thing is just a load of crap. Not everyone agrees with everyone so why don't we just let it go and try to get along? It's that simple.
2007-03-02 09:37:52 · answer #1 · answered by fruit salad 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, yes. That's a great idea. Unfortunately I'm a hypocrite.
I'm friends with Christians and people of many other faiths. I have no problem taking the residents at the care home I work at to church or to the mosque. I'm quite happy to discuss beliefs in a rational, polite and sympathetic way.
But as well as education and exchange of ideas I also come here for entertainment.
And every now and then someone posts a Q or A which seems to me to be so stupid or bigoted that I just can't help but poke them to see if they will squeak. It's cruel and mean and most probably pointless. But somehow I just can't help myself. There. I've said it. I'm a terrible person. Oh damn. Just pointed a finger at myself. Sorry.
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2007-03-02 10:04:14 · answer #2 · answered by Nobody 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea we should be able to get along with everyone and this is a spiritual question and answer board I love all people Non christian and Christian I pray that there would be more unity and openmindedness on both sides so that we can live and chat with each other in peace.
2007-03-02 09:29:43 · answer #3 · answered by Nate_777 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian and I don't have any qualms with Athiests. I have been friends with Atheists. I would date an Atheist, I really don't mind and I wouldn't try to convert them. Everyone has their own right to what they believe and just because I am a Christian I do not believe I am better than an Atheist.
2007-03-02 09:32:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do get along with atheists. I think they have a right to believe as they choose. If you don't think there is a god, it doesn't mean that my God doesn't exist. It simply means you do not think he does. If someone wants to worship mother earth, that's fine with me. It doesn't change or affect my faith or what I choose as a religion at all. I think that people sometimes attack what they cannot fathom to be truth for someone else. Others simply do not understand. Some poeple are angry at life in general and find it easiest to attack someone that is the opposite of them in every sense of the word. Regardless of the reasons behind it, it's possible to get along, but as long as humanity is here, unfortunately there will be hatred in the someone's heart-- harboring that anger for someone else.
2007-03-02 10:04:59 · answer #5 · answered by One Odd Duck 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can and we often are, if only because most people don't have the "courage of their convictions"...lol...or even know what their convictions are, exactly.
I seriously believe - call it my faith in humanity - that most "religious" people are ignorant of their own supposed religion, or at least oblivious to their own apostacy. Atheists, meanwhile, are often merely reacting against religion. Precious few people on either side are really informed; and those who are, are misinformed. So it hardly matters what people believe, or think they believe, in practice. We still get along (or not) for reasons that have nothing to do with religion or lack thereof.
2007-03-02 09:29:21 · answer #6 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheists and Christians get along together all the time. It's the Fundamentalists and the self-proclaimed intellectuals who need to be seperated.
2007-03-02 09:29:21 · answer #7 · answered by DarkLord_Bob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever hear the phrase, "You can dish it out, but you can't take it"? Christian fundamentalists have been on the attack for years now, trying to deny rights to homosexuals, trying to outlaw abortions, trying to keep women from obtaining equal rights, and trying to impose their own morals - many of them non-biblical - on the rest of society. Non-Fundamentalists are finally fighting back by speaking out against their campaigns, their media onslaughts, and their mistaken notions of truth, and the Fundamentalists don't like it very much. They can dish it out, but they can't take it. So when people of good conscience stand up for their rights, Fundamentalists cry foul play.
2007-03-02 09:27:43 · answer #8 · answered by gruz 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately Christians keep trying to shove their beliefs down the throats of others.
2007-03-02 09:27:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree. In most circumstances a little HEALTHY debate is OK, but unfortunately, in this category it too often turns into a hate-fest. That's not healthy debate.
2007-03-02 09:29:59 · answer #10 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋