So you don't like Christians because....?

Question

Right now, I can't understand it.

Please enlighten me!

Answer 1

they are creepy

Answer 2

The reason that there are a lot of answers saying "I don't dislike Christians, I dislike Christianity", is because that's the way we feel. Atheism, for the most part, is a decision someone makes once they realize that religion doesn't make sense to them. Nothing to do with people. Nothing to do with individuals. The reason (or at least, what I can figure) that certain people of a particular religion dislike individuals of different faiths is because they're taught to. Everyone is taught that HIS religion is the truth. Atheists have weighed and reweighed options, ideas, beliefs, and realized that, "hey, I don't like it, but you can", so they don't harbor grudges or ill-will towards people of other faiths, whereas someone who has been Christian since they were born has learned all that about ... you know... everyone else being wrong.

I'm sorry if that doesn't make much sense, but I tried to explain it a little...
Point: Its the truth. We don't need to "man up" and say that we don't like Christians. We honestly do like them, for the most part. Its not like we denounced our faith in God because we got into a fist fight with a Christian, or anything. It really just is organized religion that we disagree with.

Answer 3

From life experience I have developed a mistrust of SOME christians. My mother was turned away from a local church after my parents divorced. She had no one to talk to so went there simply for help and was asked if she was a tithing member and was asked to leave when she said she wasn't. I myself was asked to leave my grandfathers own funeral at another church. I was driving truck at night to help with cash after our son was born, and was looking a little rough(sleepy), during the service. A deacon took me aside , accused me of being high and threatened to call the police. This is only the start as to why I distrust the "surface morality" of many selfprofessed christians. I also know many who are shining lights and follow the word with true love for fellow man.

Answer 4

Fourmore, that's great that you don't hate Christians, but just Christianity...but there has been a lot of proof on these boards that there are a lot of people who hate Christians.
I have seen countless things like "Christians are stupid and ignorant"...Christians are fat and ugly etc etc

I am not saying there have not been slanderers that are Christians on here, but that wasn't the question this person posed.

Addition: I keep hearing this thing where Christians tell people they are going to burn in hell....I know this used to happen and perhaps somewhere it still does, but in any church I have been in, and all the Christians I have known, no one has EVER uttered those words to another. Nor should they be.

Answer 5

Because most that I have met have been very ignorant, and when you try to teach them something, they are close-minded and choose to remain ignorant. For example, when I tried to explain that a heavy metal band I like actually has a lot of pro-God type lyrics in their songs, she then said they had to be phony, because there was "no way" they did not worship the devil if they were a metal band.

Because most of the ones I met have never even tried to see any point of view other than their own.

Because most of the ones I have known sincerely think they are better than everyone else.

Need I go on?

Answer 6

I don't like Christians because they broke the social rules that formerly bound use together as a nation. For centuries Americans of diverse religious affiliations co-existed in an atmosphere of mutual toleration. Religion (and politics) were simply not discussed in polite company. Then right-wing Christianity sold its soul to the Republican party. Christianity became an organized political force and has vigorously worked to over-come America's traditional separation of church and state by using the power of federal law to impose their religious views on their former friends and fellow Americans. Christians seek to undermine America's science curriculum by polluting it with pseudo-scientific superstition. Christians imagine a few stem-cells in a petri dish are the moral equivalent of a living human being and so deny millions of suffering people the hope of a real cure for their afflictions. Christians have unilaterally declared that a twelve-week fetus is a person, bombing women's health clinics and murdering medical doctors who perform perfectly legal procedures only because their Christian religious sensibilities were offended. Now we have a Christian President who started an immoral and illegal war in the hope of triggering the "end of days" senerio. He actually put his personal religious beliefs ahead of the responsibilities of elected office and ahead of the welfare of the entire human race. ...and he has the shameless gall to actually admit it! In short, Christians have broken the social contract that binds us together as a nation and represent a continuing threat to rational secular government and personal freedom in America.

Answer 7

Oh, oh! Can I answer this one?

To be honest, you're encouraging blanket statements about Christians. Why do that?

I like some Xians, and dislike others.

Christ himself was cool. I don't particularly like the way people twist Bible verses to their own benefit, to support their world view.

Fundamentalists are nuts, just as from any other religion. It doesn't matter if they're Xian or not. "This is the way it is!" "Believe this or go to hell!" "I am right, you are wrong!"

Of course that doesn't only apply to today, but throughout history - the inquisition, burning of witches, the crusades, etc. etc.

Answer 8

They often have a sense of being "holier than thou''
The damn other people to burn in hell for all eternity for not having the same 'faith' as them.
They are way too involved in politics in the US and have violated the separation between church and state.
They want to eschew science and teach my children that the world was created in 6 days by a deity.

Answer 9

Because they can't butt out of other peoples lives. And because they keep doing things they know will tick others off like saying that Atheism is a religion and that everyone that isn't a Christian is an "unbeliever".

I'm more vehemently AntiChristian than I have ever been in my life due to Christian behavior.

Answer 10

I don't like the form of Christianity preached by people like Ted Haggard and Fred Phelps because it inspires hatred...

Answer 11

I have no problem with individual Christians - I'm marrying one. I have a problem with Christianity as a whole. I always find it rather arrogant of Christians to say we hate them, when it's the religion itself that we don't like. I don't know any of these people personally, so to say I hate them as people is unfair.