He is the greatest example ever of how we should live our lives. He personified love, forgiveness, mercy, tolerance, compassion and healing. What is it about Him that gets you so upset and at times hostile?
2007-04-26 05:10:10 · 27 answers · asked by Sir Offenzalot 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some good responses folks, thanks and God Bless!
2007-04-26 05:17:51 · update #1
Just to clarify, when I say non believers I am referring to those who do not believe in His divinity or that He even existed.
2007-04-26 05:39:50 · update #2
he doesnt scare me, i just dont think he was the son of god.
2007-04-26 05:13:05 · answer #1 · answered by Sara 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
The misnomer of "Jesus scares me" is a misunderstanding. Christians always think if you don't have Jesus in your life then you must be afraid of Him. You would have to walk a mile in anothers shoes to understand. If you could see things from a non-Christian perspective you would know there is no fear. Speaking from experience, I was eaten alive by fear when I was a Christian. Now I have none. Humans fear what they don't understand and the bible(religion) doesn't explain anything. You're just told to believe and have faith. Yet at the same time the bible says we are to have knowledge, wisdom and understanding. These three things dispel fear. The agent of fear is a very real viable opponent. Non-Christians apparently scare you or you would understand. Get out of the box!
2007-04-26 07:14:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Buddha exemplified thos ideals better that Jesus did. And remember that according to your own book, Jesus comes back as a raging homocidal maniac venting his displeasure on everyone who didn't massage his ego.
I hardly fear your version of Jesus. I am frequently irritated and sometimes utterly apalled by the things his follwers do in his name. I regard the wilful ignorance being lauded as a virtue to be possibly one of the most disturbing aspects of your religion.
My own perception of Jesus is that of a charismatic thinking man who got a lot of mythology taped to him decades after his death. Nothing to fear there, no matter what the fanatics say.
2007-04-26 05:21:00 · answer #3 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May I ask what is with all of the generalizations? As an atheist and Buddhist I have NO problem with Jesus, nor am I hostile about him, or otherwise. I believe he was tolerant, compassionate and highly altruistic and wise... I just don't believe in the mythological version of him that many put forth.
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2007-04-26 05:15:08 · answer #4 · answered by vinslave 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Oh - there is nothing that upsets me or that I feel hostile to. He is one of the shining examples of spirituality in a man. As a Bodhisattva once said of him "this man is very nearly a Buddha".
The group who upset and scare me are that group of followers of his who put words in him mouth, who commit dogmatic nonsense in his name and who have committed crimes against humanity in his name.
When I read Christ I do not recognise him as the same as projected by the extremist Christians
Give me the man not the bo*****
2007-04-26 05:32:50 · answer #5 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus doesn't scare me. Anymore than my God scares you. =) There's absolutely nothing about him that makes me upset or hostile. When I get mean towards someone, it is because of the individual... and it's usually because that person is using their belief in Jesus to harm others.
2007-04-26 05:29:54 · answer #6 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I find that The Buddha was a superior example of those traits.
I don't get upset over Jesus. I think he was a decent moral teacher, whose students over-inflated his life story after his death, and that a lot got lost in the translation. He doesn't scare me or upset me.
2007-04-26 05:14:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
I didn't say I don't believe in Jesus, I just don't believe in christianity, and the lying doctrines put out by the men that steer or guide it. I believe in the truth, and not the Lie.
2007-04-26 05:17:40 · answer #8 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One can dodge folly without backing into fear. I do not have to fear Jesus to be unable to support the things his followers do in his name, or to refuse to condone the crimes they commit. There is nothing. throughout the last 1500 years of History, to suggest that Christianity in any way reflects any of the things you suggest, and it strikes me as the height of hypocrisy to preach that I should do what they do not.
2007-04-26 06:13:57 · answer #9 · answered by rich k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't scare me. If he was real, I'd respect him quite a bit. I just don't think he was real. There is no evidence from that time period showing he was.
Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr. also advocated peace, love and social change. I respect them. There's far more evidence that they existed.
2007-04-26 05:17:33 · answer #10 · answered by Kharm 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing about a fictional character scares me at all.
Why are believers scared of death enough to create the fantasy of eternal life?
2007-04-26 05:30:24 · answer #11 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋