Why people react with anger & emotional outbursts when sensible questions on religions are asked?Intolerance?

Question

I have enough leisure-time and I think a lot on what happens around me, particularly exploitation of the innocents on many fronts? When I can't find out proper answers myself I refer the questions to an intelligent platform as 'Yahoo Answers'. Many of the answers I have received enriched my intelligence and knowledge. But I also receive answers through the Yahoo Forum and some of which are insulting. One gave an indication that 'Indians are idiots'. I did not want to react because I believed that his/her upbringing was faulty. I am a Christian by birth and I live among Hindus, noble in tolerance and understanding and I am proud of my brethren. Many of my Christian brethren had quoted from informative sources and replied to my questions to my entire satisfaction and gratitude. But a few express intolerance towards my questions. My request is this: - Let religions not come in our way to freethinking and let not emerging thoughts be suppressed! lileeann

Answer 1

Please look around and most of the things that move are round. The earth is round so that friendship can encircle this. We know that history has recorded the ice age, the stone age, the ancient age, Medieval period, 20 th century, Modern time and finally the present times. Neither the religions are made nor Gods were prayed. Still people lived. As the population grew, socities were formed and each society demended a seperate entity. That how faith came to be followed and people imagined things there never were and asked why not. When the origion itswelf is not clear or not known people tend to be angry or emotional. If X calls why an idiot, Y does not become an idiot. It is an opinion expressed, and need not be true. Take it easy my friend, first you dont become emotional. We are all just actors in a drama lasting only for a short while. Forgive and forget them.

Answer 2

That was a fantastic question my friend. Religion has been a part of mankind since ancient. Religion teaches us the way of life, and the values and Morales to be followed in society. So religion has become very close to us because the history of the religion speaks so. Everybody is proud to be a Hindu, or a Muslim, or a christian and so on. When sensible and sensitive questions are asked people fail to understand that it is the duty of every person to explain and clear the question for the asker who is not trying not to offend the religion but to make sure that his doubts get cleared. So a true follower should not burst out but try to solve the question and make himself look above others.

Answer 3

Religion, religious preachings, practices should push the practitioner to the Spirituality orbit. Apparently the fault will be in the individual, and preachings and not the Religion if the persons do not evolve and revolve in the spiritual orbit. Hindu preachings are Dharma based. It is learned and imbibed in the open University sytem with open mind. They practice and practice praying God for entering the Spiritual orbit. Generation to generation striving in this direction. Money, material and other attractions do not deter their determination. Hence India is a Veda Bhoomi and Karma Bhoomi. Our tolerance should be at Zero Level. Christian convertions with wrong methods may give short spell enjoyment to the persons involved. But they are doing lot of damage to the Religion and Revered Christ. I have my feeling that Lord Krishna and Christ are one and the same. Intolerance, looses the Vivekam and grab negativity, sufferings.

Answer 4

Religion is a way of life in this world. If you understand this and do not say that I am Christian by birth and living in India like that. You are a human being and living in this world and you are sensible in posing all type of questions. First understand that religion is misunderstood and the Hindu, Christianity and Muslim are misunderstood as they were and are being driven by their community feelilngs. If one understands that there is one world and the cosmos is full of human population and striving, struggling to live on this earth because they are born and have to live from birth to death knowing their destiny and cause and effect of their life. That is more important and once you think this way, you never get perturbed and tolerate everyone's feeling and do not say Intolerance is expressed by others.

Answer 5

People react with anger when sensible questions are asked because the reason is that they dont know the answer which might convince the other person.

People also do not like to apply their mind to give some sensible answer and sometime it so happens that the person who has asked the question may be of a different religion so one feels that he is taunting his religion.

People feel sometime that their answer might go against their action which may be right or wrong.

Answer 6

Problem will only come when you disrespect other religions and put all silly points. You have to respect other religions. Ultimately God is one. He does not have any restrictions with reference to religion. One should not put questions of no use. If you respect your religion, naturally you respect other religions. Religions are like rivers, which ultimately mix with Ocean that is Almighty, so where is the dispute and where is the speciality of a particular religion. You are a christian because you took birth in that family. You would have been Hindu or Muslim if you would have taken birth in those families. So God is one. You believe in your God form and respect others and raise beyond religion.

Answer 7

Dear

This is immature behaviour from people to react with anger and emotion on question to religion.

What people fail to understand :-

Religion is set of rules accepted by you /your mind which defines

-how you should behave
-How you want to thank God
-What you should eat
......

And if something is not clear then you try to find out what are options available.

Some rules are created by our parents when we grow from kid
to youth
But when we grow our mind also start making decision for what is right or wrong and start modifiing
For example smoking or non veg food is prohibited in some religon But still people frm same religon would eat non veg or smoke

So there is no point in showing anger or emotional burst for such discussions.

If some one doesnot like discussion then he should end and say that he does not want to discuss on this issue

BR

Sanjeev

Answer 8

No religion is great in itself...its all ones efforts and great deeds that make a religion.....its only within India where all religions rest...one should firstly never compare any religion...after all ....every religion was given birth by a God....and again....God is one.....!!people go hyper and definately lack tolerance and thats the reason why they react so aggresively...they themselves compare there religion with others and then start with the criticisms.....why don't they understand that if .............."EVERYTHING WOULD BE PERFECT, THEN A PENCIL WON'T HAD A RUBBER ON HER HEAD!"
-Vandana Bajaj

Answer 9

We Indians are mainly divided in three religions Hindu,Muslim,Christian.Other religions like Sikh and Jain are originated from Hindu and Muslim religions.From ancient times many races with their different religions came to India like the Huns, the Parthians and many more. But none of their religions are in existence in present day.They mingled with the Hindu religion.Because they did not posses a rich culture of their own, while Hindus were thriving with great intellectual property .So they took the culture and religion of Hindus as their own,of course keeping some of their own rituals intact.This mix of culture can be seen in the GANDHAR style of art.

But the case was not the same with the Muslims and the Christians, they possessed a great wealth of their own culture which were completely different from what flourished in Indian soil. They never really mixed, specially in higher society.
In spite of this problem, Indians could have lived in peace but there were greater obstacles . Religion is a vast idea, in Hindu mythology, this word has been used to express nearly a thousand different minings. But today what we, the common people follow is merely a bunch of meaningless rituals. We are almost in dark about the great virtues religions taught us. And as our religion is cut-off from it's stames , it becomes very easy for orators and political leaders to provoke us in the name of religion. The British understood this fact properly and so do present day politicians. Education was considered to be the medicine but today we see engineers and scholars as Muslim Jihadees and Hindu communals.


I try not to be negative , but my friend, when I think of all these, I don't really see a quick solution. If you are really concerned you can e-mail me at "[e-mail]". Goodbye.

Answer 10

Religious feelings are allover the world. Different religions people beleive in different gods. Such that people are divided and look different from others which is dividing the people from there love and affection towords each other. People generally think of there language different religions people speak different languages for example Hindu, Muslim or take any one they generally beleive in their God and they think of that what ever they do is correct. But the only truth is one God no human being have still now seen the God. People beheave in a psychological way and they themself unable to live happy life. what everybody wants to live the happy life. Different religions make people react with anger raises different questions which are not solveable and no solutions for them which are very sensible it may create to war.

(In my opinion if God would have created only one language to everybody i think there whould have been no religions there would only be one religion i.e happy religion.)