What make people hate Christians so much?

Question

I have read many questions and many people bashing on christians... what about other religion? Why is christiany such a touchy subject?

I am seeking knowledge.... many people read into the questions and make assumptions. I just want to know why I have noticed a lot of bitterness and haven't found much bitterness toward Hinduism, Buddhism, Scientology, Wickens ect

Answer 1

If you truly want to know why good loving people sometimes get angry with Christians you actually need to listen to what they are saying. You need to try to understand how what you are doing is making them feel.

It hurts your feelings when someone pokes fun or makes disparaging comments about what you believe in. You know it does. People’s beliefs are precious to them, just as yours are precious to you. Simply thinking or saying but my beliefs are right and theirs are wrong does not help. In fact it is always seen as arrogant and often comes off making the one saying it sound like a fool.

People believe in what makes sense to them from their perspective, even if it makes no sense logically when it is looked at from any other perspective. Look around you at the great diversity the creator has given us to experience in this life. See the colorful and ever changing panorama that we have here to experience within. If this shows us any one thing about our creator, it makes it apparent that He/She loves this idea of diversity. If you look at any aspect of life, trees, birds, languages, or even sunsets you see an almost dizzying array of possibilities. This life we have been given by our Father/Mother God is a veritable feast of diversity from which we may chose what pleases us.

Such is the gift this life we have been given. Why is it so hard to imagine that our creator’s obvious love for diversity would not extend to the way his children expressed their love for him? If it seemed appropriate to have thousands of types of insects, birds, trees and sunsets etc. how likely is it that She would have suddenly become so narrow minded when it came to ways to express ones faith. Think about it. Just for a moment forget what you have been told over and over about their being only one correct way to approach God. Would this God who so obviously thrives on diversity even want that? When viewed from this perspective it makes one wonder about the source of the my-way or the highway idea of god. Sounds a lot more like ego bound narrow-minded human control issues than the work of our God who seems to have made diversity his trademark.

There is only one God; He/She has had many names. After all should we expect people who speak different languages to all call God by the same name? This would hardly seem to be a logical expectation. Jesus told us to love our neighbor, not to judge our neighbor or try to fix our neighbor, Only to love them. We are hardly being loving when we are insulting the way they express their love for our creator by telling them we have a better way. This can only make us seen like an arrogant know it all. The obvious consequence being our comments will hurt their feelings and they will say or do something to return the insult.

If we want our faith to grow we need to stop going around singing “MY Gods better than your God “. We need to shut up about their beliefs and start teaching by example. If we have learned anything about loving our neighbors like Jesus asked us to, it will show. People will be drawn to this loving belief system and want to know more about it. This is what being a Christian means. Anything else is just being an arrogant know it all.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

I do not feel both atheists or Christians hate every different, Its dull to hate any person given that of faith. I feel its a extra annoyance then hate. Really a few men and women simply are not able to be given a different factor of view on matters.

Answer 3

Because a lot of christians tend to push their beliefs on people who'd otherwise not be interested in hearing about it. People want to believe their own thing...not have others tell them what to believe!

EDIT: those other religions that you mentioned in your additional details...they don't push their beliefs on others, and they also don't go around ranting and raving saying that people will go to hell if they don't accept this or believe that. Hope this answered your question :)

Answer 4

Because Christians seem to get offended if anyone puts down Christianity, but they bash everyone else like it's nothing.

Answer 5

2 Timothy 3:12 Those who live a godly life will be prosecuted.

John 15 says if they hated me they will hate you Jesus was talking in this passage.

People don't want to hear the truth and to be quite frank they are satisfied with their own kingdom and not living for the Kingdom of God Matthew 6:33.

Answer 6

Answering from a 'Christian' viewpoint (only); perhaps we (as a whole) deserve it (at least here in USA presently). There are two old testaments; one scriptural, one unscriptural (not God's word). Many Christians go by the unscriptural one presently here.

Answer 7

Because the hypocrisy the kind that Ted Haggard did.

Answer 8

Read Godfreak's answer about how she is "better" than non-christians and you will understand.

Answer 9

It's all that 'you're going to hell' & spin about the rapture.

Answer 10

they force their beliefs on us... and dont act like you guys are persecuted for your beliefs, because there are more of you than us.