Pagans heretic's and other heathens - Do you think Christians feel threatened by you ?

Question

I think they do

Oh and why is it that you think they might feel threatened by you ?

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I think they feel threatened by another view The idea that someone might contridict them and the concept of another god - esp a god thats good

In their theology all other gods have to be evil demons remember ?

cera_chao...

No no no - I don't advocate threatening them I suspect they came feeling that way

I just wanted a little off the cuff survey

Answer 1

Only Christians who aren't secure in their belief are threatened by non-Christians. You can tell who they are because the yell the loudest. They feel that our lack of belief means that they may be wrong. They fight, yell, sometimes even burn people to demonstrate how right they are. Christians who are secure in thmselves and their faith couldn't care less about what we believe or don't believe. It is these insecure Christians that are so fun and easy to bait into debates. I think they alone are the reason that many non-Christians come here.

Answer 2

I went to a Pentecostal church for a sturdy 8 years; and then I delved into Paganism. "do you think of that having a Christian training could have had the opposite effect on many little ones, sending them to Atheism and Paganism, somewhat than making them stable Christians as they was hoping?" i assume that particularly relies upon on how strictly enforced the theory equipment is. The extra harshly it is implicated, the extra the youngster will pick to get far off from it; and vice-versa. For me it replaced into stressful and demonic. Being dragged to church... Sitting status sitting status sitting status--greeting time--even so to many times sitting and status for hours. then you had the hyppocrites... and the fundamentalists... and the final "you are going to Hell" previous women. i'm not sure how Pentecostal church homes artwork at the instant, and not all of them are a similar, yet it is how mine replaced into... maximum of my closest friends are Christian, and function been so on account that they have been sons and daughters; so, this leads lower back to the implication and mindset element. frequently speaking, if somebody would not like something, they do no longer persist with it. :3

Answer 3

Hmm... I don't know if Christians feel threatened by pagans, heretics or (presumably) atheists like me....

Well, I guess if we were to look at the historical evidence--witch burnings, inquisitions and stuff like that--then, yeah, we might conclude that Christians feel threatened by non-believers.

You'd think that Christian faith would help them to rise above such petty feelings and unworthy actions. Wouldn't you?

Answer 4

I don't know what how Christians feel about me. I suspect many of them don't like me because I refuse to bow down and worship their God and instead stay loyal to the Æsir and Vanir.

I wouldn't necessarily say they feel threatened though. Why would you think that?

Answer 5

In some ways, yes! In many cases it is on a subconscious level, but I think that they are struggling to maintain the status quo. If you really look at the history of the Christian church, they gained dominance, not by righteousness, but by force. By trying to destroy anyone who disagreed with them, through murder and violence. In later times, it was done more through attempts to discredit, through propaganda! But, occasional violence has occurred even in modern times. I think on some level, they know that the status quo cannot be maintained. For the Christian church to survive, it has to change, in significant ways. It has to become more tolerant of the views and beliefs of others, and it has to admit that its path is not the only path to God, and that other beliefs are every bit as valid, and that believing something different does not guarantee eternal damnation.

Answer 6

only if they feel threatened by every little natural thing out there. do you assume we want them threatened? Because that is simply not the case. I appreciate and return all positive feelings to every one!

Answer 7

i think only the fundamentalists are afraid of atheism, because atheism is about logical thinking and use of science and reason, while they are all about the 'book' being literal (this goes for fundy muslims and such too).
science is a corrosive to religion. and they know it. of course i dont see an end to their beliefs anytime soon. not in my lifetime.

now the other religious sects are much more adaptable and i dont see them really feeling too threatened.

Answer 8

I think there's an awful lot of lip-service christians out there that do. People who are christian not because they believe, but because their parents believed, and somehow see any challenge of that belief as an insult to their family. It's a sorry state to be in, surely.

Answer 9

I hope not. I have not tried to present myself in a threatening manner. Matter of fact, when I invited them in last week and recieved my booklet with the I've been saved ----fill your name in here--- page... I was nude. She didn't seem to mind, but the old guy did.

Answer 10

Well, if by heritic you mean an extremist, then yes, they frighten me because nothing good ever comes of someone going to the extreme(mostly violence), other wise I don't feel threatend at all.