2007-03-15 05:32:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know what you mean. All I ever find on here are questions about ghosts, and all they want are spooky stories. What about the spirits of your Ancestors? Is Animism suddenly no longer a valid spirituality? It seems I cant take two steps without being told that Spirits either don't exist, or are evil demons. A little bit of tolerance, and understanding wouldn't go astray... Everybody else is always saying how much it offends them that they don't get it, so why not me? My beliefs are no less valid and no less important than any one else's.
I make a point of not belittling people's beliefs, faiths, religions. So how come what I believe in is demonised? It's a sad, sad world we live in where people claim to believe one thing, and do another. Love? Respect? Tolerance? There's your fairy tales.
2007-03-15 06:09:50 · answer #1 · answered by busted.mike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faiths claim things. If they are untrue then it shouldn't matter to you.
If there is a state of affairs in which you are in peril of being damned and an escape method is provided, then a believer saying that is not damning you, he's helping you as he sees it, telling you of the lemmings fate ahead. If the idea is wrong its just delusional and you shouldn't be bothered.
If its possibly true investigate.
2007-03-15 13:23:10 · answer #2 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You forgot that they will kill, hate, and damn you if you don't believe in THEIR particular invisible spirit. Why can't we just be accepted for who we are and not what we believe?
2007-03-15 12:37:05 · answer #3 · answered by *Cara* 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very sad! Some people head's are just so far up their A$s they cant see whats infront of them. My beliefs are very high but I would never judge another whose wasnt. Those sad people just havent figured that the way to life is difficult enough let alone to have people bible thumppin in ya ear.
2007-03-15 12:37:44 · answer #4 · answered by jdnsmama1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny, I was at a bar last night and ordered an invisible spirit and they said there is no such thing. They probably had it though but just couldn't see it. I bet !
2007-03-15 12:41:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I live in this world. I am Christian. I would never kill, hate, or damn you if you choose not to believe in God.
Stop generalizing so!
2007-03-15 12:36:46 · answer #6 · answered by kja63 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Believe what you want, dude. But if it's modern day persecution that you are talking about, it's the Christians that are getting that In Muslim countries and especially in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Aren't you exaggerating?
2007-03-15 12:42:05 · answer #7 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you forgot those terrible Christians who put their lives on the line all over the world who feed and cloth the sick and orphans...who are one of the first ones on the location when there is a natural disaster, who take in abused women and children and give them a roof over their heads and something to eat.....give me a name of someone who was killed because they didn't believe in Jesus???.....give me a name of someone who is a victim of hate for not believing in Jesus.....what a mixed up, upside down world we live in....
2007-03-15 12:39:56 · answer #8 · answered by TNT 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More pathetic than sad. I wont let terroristic threats make me sad...
2007-03-15 12:36:20 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the sadder thing is the fact that i can't get back the 15 seconds of my life you just wasted..
2007-03-15 12:43:56 · answer #10 · answered by Chemical Coltraine 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋