It seems to be the general consensus that we Christians must be stupid to believe in Something or Someone who was around thousands of years ago, and who we cannot see. Do they not think that we may have done our own thinking and research and decided that there is no other explaination for the world?! Come on, non-Christians... most of us are not just blindly following the church because we can't be bothered thinking!!
2007-03-24 21:37:49 · 18 answers · asked by astra6584 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry all, I didn't mean to generalise. It just seems that many around here consider us to be stupid. My apologies if I seem offensive.
2007-03-24 21:56:02 · update #1
Non-Christian here. I have never made sweeping generalizations like that. I have better manners and sense than to lump all Christians in one pile and label them.
2007-03-24 21:48:00 · answer #1 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have nothing against Christians... in fact, several good friends of mine are Christian but perhaps you should look at those who walk around, running off at the mouth about Jesus, God and Christianity and putting words in the mouth of God for their own agenda, disrespecting people and insulting anyone who isn't Christian. Those are the people who give the average, true Christian a bad name and unfortunately, these days those types are a dime a dozen.
The day when I can walk down the street without getting solicited religious paperwork simply for the way I look or the pentacle around my neck, even after politely declining will be the day I gain a little more respect for those who call them 'Christian' but until then there will be a gross generalisation of the stupidity of those aforementioned people.
Judgement isn't something you can help, everyone judges but a true open mind is the mind of an intelligent free-thinking person. It's a guilty until proven innocent type of situation with those of us who get persecuted for no reason other than being different. However, there are a few, like you, who can show their IQ is higher than a bowl of oatmeal.
2007-03-25 04:46:28 · answer #2 · answered by Gabriel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christians do have brains, just like other humans. The only difference between us, believing Christians, and non-believers is that the Holy Spirit has more control over us than our brains.
When we were born again in the Spirit, our minds were changed from a perspective of the flesh into the perspective of Christ. We were baptized in His Spirit, and so we think and feel like He did. That is why probably many non-believers do not understand us and the way we think.
Still, we should not discriminate them. We should not run around pompously and accuse them of our sins. Jesus did the exact opposite, befriending tax collectors and adulterers. We must remember that we used to be like them. We should learn love those who ridicule us, just as Christ loved us, even when we crucified and killed Him on the cross. With a love so great, that He rose from the dead that unworthy sinners, like us, could also have a hope of living eternally.
2007-03-25 04:59:28 · answer #3 · answered by Super Puppy One 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it's because they just cannot imagine believing in what you do. They do not understand that you have a valid faith that works for you, and they are so far from being able to step into your shoes, that they assume you just must be stupid or something! I'm not a Christian, but I don't think you're stupid at all. I'm a Hindu, and many think I'm stupid too, so I can sympathize with you.
2007-03-25 05:15:48 · answer #4 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From Roger Wertheimer's "Understanding the Abortion Argument" :
"For it is comforting to suppose that the conservative beliefs could take root only in a mind that had been carefully cultivated since infancy to support every extravagant dogma of an arcane theology fathered by the victims of unnatural and unhealthy lives."
"Of course, slander is no substitute for argument - that's what the logic books say - and yet we cast our aspersions with care, for they must deprive the audience of the right to believe the speaker."
In Love
2007-03-25 05:03:47 · answer #5 · answered by soulinverse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because so many have overdosed on science and logic, that they are incapable themselves of understanding the principle of Faith. Faith is belief in things not only not seen, but not perceptible to any scientist, or scientific instrument.
When (or if) Jesus walked on water, it was through Faith. He believed he could, therefore he could. This type of mechanism is totally incomprehensible to the scientific mind. (Man's foolishness is God's wisdom. (The Bible))
Scientists are now starting to run into some of the quandaries, that a purely scientific explanation of the Universe exposes. Relativity and quantum mechanics are two of the simplest puzzles they explain through special "tricks" rather than a grand design and purpose for the Universe.
Hundreds of years of success with the scientific method, while ignoring the failures, has caused it to become their own "false gospel."
2007-03-25 05:00:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not christians per se but FUNDAMENTALIST christians. Do you really believe that a senior citizen gathered two of every species of animal in the world from every corner of the world including antarctica, the america's, the arctic circle, the depths of the rainforrest, the highest mountains and deep underground? If you do then you have the answer to your question right there.
2007-03-25 04:46:20 · answer #7 · answered by H M 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Look, people don't think you are stupid for believing in God or Jesus. We think you're stupid for believing that the world was created in six days (or whatever), and things like that. Basically, anything that goes AGAINST science. Science has not disproved the existence of God, therefore belief in God is in itself not illogical. But science has disproved all other BS like creationism.
2007-03-25 04:42:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I do hope you re not generalizing! i am a non-christian but i have met a lovely bunch of Christians who i really look up to, and feel relaxed around them!
2007-03-25 04:44:00 · answer #9 · answered by HypNotikA 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry that you hold that opinion of those who hold differing beliefs.
I do know, personally, what an affront it is to have that which I hold to be true for me questioned, nay, belittled.
When I come across people who espouse the view that the spirits of the dead are demons, I feel sorrow. It is because I see differently. I see the spirits as revered Ancestors.
I do not think badly of those who hold that view, because they believe differently to me. They are as entitled to their opinion as I am.
2007-03-25 05:00:17 · answer #10 · answered by busted.mike 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋