What can you do when people ask questions that your faith can never answer ?

Question

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"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." -- Anne Coulter, Christian Peace Activist

Conquer,Convert or kill them.

"The three-in-one/one-in-three mystery of Father, Son and Holy Ghost made tritheism official. The subsequent almost-deification of the Virgin Mary made it quatrotheism . . . Finally, cart-loads of saints raised to quarter-deification turned Christianity into plain old-fashioned polytheism. By the time of the Crusades, it was the most polytheistic religion to ever have existed, with the possible exception of Hinduism.

This untenable contradiction between the assertion of monotheism and the reality of polytheism was dealt with by accusing other religions of the Christian fault.

The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan.

The external history of Christianity consists largely of accusations that other religions rely on the worship of more than one god and therefore not the true God. These pagans must therefore be converted, conquered and/or killed for their own good in order that they benefit from the singularity of the Holy Trinity, plus appendages." -- The Doubter's Companion (John Ralston Saul)

Answer 1

Has God put you on this world be a teacher, if this is true you will have specialized knowledge in some areas you can share with others. If you do not have special knowledge then perhaps your gift is in another area.

The fact that some of the questions you are asked cannot be explained, should not be an embarrassment for caution to question any trouble at all. You can refer to those questions to a priest, or minister, or pastor.
Just be a good witness of faith and that you treat others as God should, it is not to be an expert in our faith or understand it is to believe and love God and our fellow man.

Answer 2

I call myself a Christian but I may not necessarily be a typical Christian. I have no trouble answering almost any question people ask about religion. If someone asks me why God allows suffering, particularly the suffering of little children and babies, I try to answer that question. Perhaps God sees things from an entirely different perspective than we do. Doesn't mean God is aloof or doesn't care. Just means that there may be explanations for suffering and things like brutality that we cannot fathom. Maybe one day we will understand. Maybe God takes the little ones into his loving arms and takes away any hurt or memory of pain. I know, that is easy for someone to say, and when it is happening I would not want to be an innocent child starving to death or in pain. But just because we can't understand it does not mean there is no good reason for it to exist. Indeed, for any evil to exist. God bless. I hope we learn what we need to learn and we are going to find that the answers do make sense, and there is such a thing as devine justice.

Answer 3

"The Church - Catholic and later Protestant - turned aggressively on the two most clearly monotheistic religions in view - Judaism and Islam - and persecuted them as heathen or pagan."
The Protestant Church(es) never turned aggressive upon Judaism and Islam- that is pure bunk.
Aggression is shown everyday by Islam killing others religious people and even there own for improper dress code.

Answer 4

I can see how some of your examples would cause people with weak faith (and knowledge about that faith) to stumble trying to come up with an answer.

However, after years of study trying to prove it all to be a nicely marketed myth, I ended up believing. Not only believing, but because of all that study, understanding. There isn't a question out there that my faith could not answer.

That does not dismiss your examples! People have done incredibly stupid things in the name of religion. They've done stupid things for less, too, so I can't really fault any particular belief system. People just do stupid things sometimes, that's all. My faith does not justify or excuse or explain that behavior, nor should it!

Answer 5

many people get mad and start spouting up random junk, however, If you cant answer a question, then you should say you cant answer it.
True that Christianity was used as an excuse for many heinous things, but I think that many of its teachings are good, just some people misinterprate, take to the extreme, or use religion as an excuse. Religion is run similar to a business, where they are vying for followers, whats a better way then to persecute others and discorage the following of other reigions by burning "heathens" to death? I dissaprove of any way to force a religion on others.

please dont hate me for saying this... its just my opinion, It is not ment to insult anyone

Answer 6

Well you could do like most people of faith, and ignore the questions, or rationalize. You really don't want to actually think about the problems, because then you will realize that the Bible is completely riddled with logical inconsistencies and absurdities that you would laugh at if Hindus or Muslims claimed such things.
The danger of thinking about things with an open mind, is that it may turn out things aren't what you thought.

Answer 7

Yep. When Faith fails, one must fall back on Reason.

Your misunderstanding of the Nature of God continues to demonstrate itself. Too bad you're too STUPID to understand that a husband can be a father and an employee. Three jobs, one person.

Answer 8

All of this would be more in focus if you mentioned the facts that the Catholic church is anything but Christian, and the undeniable fact that the vatican is both the source and creator of the Islamic religion.

Answer 9

You say : "god did it, god moves in mysterious ways, it's the holy spirit at work". If possible you use a deep voice and roll your eyes.
Then if that does not silence in awe the nasty questioner you can fall to the ground and pretend to speak in tongues. That should do it.

Answer 10

Nice rant, but I have yet to find a question that Christianity can't answer.

And since when does Anne Coulter speak for Christians?

How about letting Jesus Christ speak for us instead, okay?