Are you easily offended by other peoples answers?

Question

especially when it comes to religion!? Why? Why not?
Do you report an answer that offends thee? Why?
Are you open minded? why do you think you are? Would you admit it if you were not?
Are you intolerant of other religions? Why? why not?
Would you consider reading and researching about other faiths, beliefs and religions?

Answer 1

not at all, i get a good laugh out of some of the really outrageous ones.

Never reported anyone for anything

i think i am open minded i try to see both sides of the debate...I was raised christian untill high school and started asking questions that no one could answer and i got labled everything from a trouble maker to a satanist for asking questions about the bible. I was not being a smart *** i had honest questions and got no answers so i went elsewhere and found the answers myself.

i am not intolerant i just dont understand how you can belive something that makes no sence just because its in the bible.

example: Genealogies in Genesis put the Tower of Babel about 110 to 150 years after the Flood [Gen 10:25, 11:10-19]. How did the world population regrow so fast to make its construction (and the city around it) possible? Similarly, there would have been very few people around to build Stonehenge and the Pyramids, rebuild the Sumerian and Indus Valley civilizations, populate the Americas, etc.

and the last question, Been there done that.

Answer 2

I am not offended. It makes me pause to think of the suffering it might cause someone when an answerer is intentionally cruel. I have reported only when the questioner (in particular) is asking a racially/culturally bigotted question because I am aware of the great suffering it could cause someone who reads it. I believe that I am open minded as life circumstances have not permitted me to be otherwise. I am a buddhist who used to be Catholic, my husband was raised Anglican and is atheist, my stepson is Jewish but has no particular belief system at this time, my parents are strict Catholic....I've had to remain very balanced and try to see things from everyone's points of view. It helps me be a better person. I am very accepting of other people's religious beliefs because it brings them happiness and some sense of peace. I have read about every religion I can possibly think having been raised Catholic then became a solitary Wiccan and then through study decided to dedicate myself to Buddhism.

Answer 3

Are you easily offended by other peoples answers?
I'm not offended, but stupid and repetitive ones anger me.

especially when it comes to religion!? Why? Why not?
No. God doesn't need me to stand up for Him.

Do you report an answer that offends thee? Why?
If it's racist or anti-Semitic, yes. Otherwise, no.

Are you open minded? why do you think you are?
I like to think I am. I certainly don't think I have absolute truth and that everyone else's opinions are stupid and irrelevant.

Would you consider reading and researching about other faiths, beliefs and religions?
I do, all the time.

Answer 4

Not easily offended, but sometimes offended, because sometimes the answers are INTENDED to offend. I don't report answers that offend me. That is not the purpose of the reporting system. I am not very open-minded. I am an atheist and as such I reject out of hand whatever is irrational or lacks evidence to support it. I am intolerant of religious faith because I value logic and rational thought and religious faith is neither logical nor rational. I have researched religious faiths, beliefs, religions, and found them all to be equally divisive and dehumanizing.

Answer 5

Calm down, please.

No, I'm not offended at other people's answers. I have many, many people email me directly just to bash my faith, but I really don't mind because half of them just run in circles like tiny chiuauas barking at my heels; they have no valid proof and can't refute the KJV Bible.

I've never even noticed the report abuse button. (I have noticed it, but i dont use it)

I am very, very open minded because I willingly look into every arguement brought before me, consider it, then respond.

I am not intolerant of other's beliefs except for one (and I'm not exactly intolerant of it, I just dislike it more that any other): homosexuality, and that's only because they blast my beliefs of christianity, then yell "intolerance" and try to sue when I quote God's Word.

I am constatly researching other faiths, and that is why my faith right now is absolutely unmovable; i've yet to find a faith that is as sound and provable as mine.

I'm a Baptist PK

Answer 6

wow, big question.

I'm offended by people who state their opinions as fact. I always suggest people dig for the truth themselves and quit asking for opinions. Of course I'll give sources that will support my ideas, but I'll also show what I've found against my ideas and how I've disproven them.

I consider myself open-minded. I won't tell people they're wrong because their view is different than mine. I'll ask them what their evidence/proof is. Most of the time they shut me out because they don't have any, or they stereotype me as a common Bible Thumper. Do I believe all other religions lead to hell? Yes. Will I go up to a complete stranger and call them a sinner and demand they repent? Heck no. God's message was love to the world, not smack them with the Sword.

Answer 7

No, I am not offended and I never reported anybody.
I did research other religions and I am still doing it.
I think you can call me quite open minded, but if there is something I find unjust I will tell.
Open minded yes, over tolerant to the point of being dumb no.

Answer 8

i am not offended by the answer sometimes the question really gets me think because it sounds like people are trying to degrade God never have reported anyone cant see any reason for that everyone has their own right to there beliefs even if they get tacky it is just a forum cant help but laugh at some of the answers would be a waste of everyones time and effort my faith and belief are firmly grounded

Answer 9

I don't get offended by the person or the question.....but offended, mad, angry, upset about the "system".

To realize a "system" that we all live in, has become this mis informed, this mis lead, etc. That is what offends me.

Like the other night I saw a show on TV....asking people basic questions from life.....people couldn't answer who a picture of the first lady was, couldn't name a country that started with the letter U (gee, united states, that was hard), etc.

Its not that people are dumb.....but the system we created is dumb. I have nothing against others religions or ways, for I try to follow these wise words of my fellow Indian.


Great Chief Tucumseh

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the Great Divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none.

When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, die like a hero going home.

Answer 10

Not in the least.
I ignore people.
I only report if they are very rude or cuss.
I don't have to be open minded to ignore what I don't agree with.
I'll not put someone down for their religion yet I'll show them the truth in love about mine.
I have researched many religions. Wicca, Budda, Atheist, Islam, Hindu.
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