What are some elements of different religions that are difficult for you to understand or accept?

Answer 1

The notion that God prefers one religion over all others and the very idea of a hell are two big ones for me.

Answer 2

Any religion that allows a person to do horrible things and then be forgiven just by asking. They have no accountability for their own actions.

Any religion that uses the threat of eternal damnation to try to convince people of what is right and wrong and use it to make them do what they please.

Any religion where the leaders are getting rich off their poor "members".

Any religion that would would tell its people to fight and kill for peace. That's like having sex for virginity's sake!

Any religion that would turn its back on a member because of something someone else did. (Like the Catholic church ex-communicating a person because their cheating spouse has divorced them. Or when they excommunicate a child for the "sins" of the parents.)

Any religion that teaches we have to suffer piously in this life for a reward in the next.

Any religion that exploits or condemns any person based on their gender, sexual orientation or social/economic status.

Answer 3

I cannot understand how some religion eliminate baptism when the scripture is very clear. Jesus was, The Eunuch was, the book of Acts tells of others. Roman 6 spells it out.

They keep talking about the thief of the cross how he was not baptized. We don't know this to be true. He very well could have been baptized. It was three and half years later when Jesus met the thief on the cross. He could have been just a backslider that came too his senses.

Answer 4

Hell if God is all good and all forgiving.

All of Scientology

The idea of the planet in the sky where Mormons fornicate all the time in their pure state.

Muslim heaven where men have seven virgin wives who become virgins every night - the lack of heaven for women.

Pre-destination

Papal infallability

Answer 5

Anything that involves thoughtless adherence to dogma. If you aren't thinking about and examining your beliefs from a moral and intellectual perspective then you're nothing more than a gullible fool.

Answer 6

The entire concept of some external, male, white god, floating around in the sky, contradicting himself all the time. Sounds like SOMEone's schizophrenic...

Answer 7

How christians can pray to the Prince of Peace, read in the bible we are all God's children & then say they hate gay people.

Answer 8

Catholics thinking that they deserve salvation because of their good works. They want to take the credit for the work that Christ did on the cross.

Answer 9

The ones that torture,maim or kill others of different faiths

Answer 10

God, especially in the Judeo-Christian sense.