Most people I know don't like Christians. Not many people like them anymore and I would feel uncomfortable being one. I would rather be something people hate less. I used to be a Christian, but I don't feel like belonging to a group of some of the most hated people. So I will become an Atheist, and nobody can insult me then.
2007-04-20 10:35:40 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You've got it all upside down. You are christian or athiest or whatever depending on what you believe, not depending on what you want people to think of you!
2007-04-20 10:38:53 · answer #1 · answered by Older&Wiser 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your belief system isn't a popularity contest. If you are weakminded, weakwilled, willing to be led, needing to be told how to live your life by people who aren't qualified to do so, need to live a life filled with a guilt complex for just being alive, are willing to give up a good portion of your income to people who don't really want to work for a living, if you like being controlled, then join an organized religion.
If you have the inner strength and courage to stand on your own, make your own decisions and choices and are willing and able to enjoy or suffer the consequences of your choices and decisions, and enjoy living in reality where facts and scientific solutions rule your world, then be an athiest or nothing at all. I consider myself a realist. But, ENJOY your life and make it a good one. It's all you'll ever have.
2007-04-20 10:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by Jacky Shecky 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you think that nobody will insult you for being an atheist, you're dreaming. Forget about what other people think, and choose a belief (or non-belief) for yourself. Making decisions based on what happens to be popular at the moment is a pretty shallow way to live.
2007-04-20 10:40:04 · answer #3 · answered by solarius 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are most welcome to become whatever you like. Actually, it seems like you already are an atheist, if you can make a comment like that. Be true to who you are. It sounds to me like you don't know who you are. Being something in order to conform to a norm is a really sad thing to do.
I for one do not hate Christians. In fact, I love anyone who has a fervent and sincere beleif. I am a Mormon and I am in an even smaller religious group than your average Christian. Point being, if people don't love me for who I am, I don't WANT to be friends with them. I love who I am, and that is the thing that matters most.
2007-04-20 10:41:42 · answer #4 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheist's are morans....
There you go, they get insulted all the time.
Don't turn your back on your belief's. No one that makes fun of you of them will be with you in the end.
They are not the most hated people, most of the united states actually makes up of people who have a religion of some kind. Insenitive people, who have nothing better too do then make fun of what other people believe, and waste their time of Yahoo, trying too change people perspectives, when actually they make us believe even more.
2007-04-20 10:42:05 · answer #5 · answered by chersa 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one ever said being a Christian is easy. But, I would not make a decision based on what other people think.
2007-04-20 10:50:24 · answer #6 · answered by Not perfect, just forgiven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're no longer on my own between atheists who have been as quickly as very trustworthy believers in Christianity. Even right here at R&S we've extra desirable than one ex-clergy who're now atheists. i think of the clarification which you do not have self belief in God isn't that God isn't actual, yet that the way God has been provided to you is patently ridiculous. i've got self belief that in case you were raised as a Quaker, working example, it would on no account have handed off to you to doubt the life of God, through fact God through fact the Quakers comprehend Him is on no account opposite to observable and testable actuality. i'm guessing you have been raised in between the various church homes which teaches some God that's not extra achievable than Zeus or the Flying Spaghetti Monster. everyone with a million/2 a recommendations of their head is going to reject that. yet whilst as a replace you communicate God to be the totality of the forces of the Universe, and likewise the totality of your guy or woman being, then there is not any longer something to reject. This God, the actual God, might desire to on no account assume you to have self belief in some malevolent bronze-age sky fairy.
2016-10-03 07:44:51 · answer #7 · answered by emilios 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't sell yourself out. Believe & live what you know in your heart is right. if you try to become something you are not then you will not be happy. Your religion isn't for others to prescribe. Its a personal and special thing. Perhaps this is just part of your spiritual journey. what ever you decide-good luck, but just remember to be true to yourself.
2007-04-20 10:43:52 · answer #8 · answered by sparkly fire 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do not be an atheist but in the rebound just love the christians.
2007-04-20 10:43:35 · answer #9 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What am I hearing?
You are really more worried about having friends than following Jesus?
Are you really that weak?
Is THAT why atheists are so scared of the thought of God? Cuz they're afraid people won't LIKE them????
Now that IS irony.
2007-04-20 10:45:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋