Why do non christians have a problem?

Question

with christians, when christians are happy and try to be very helpful to others?

Answer 1

Because they see the hypocrisy of those christians who say one thing and do another.
Bo

Answer 2

This sure looks like a silly question, but there really is a straight answer:
Because *especially* "when Christians are happy and try to be very helpful to others," they think the Christians are trying to convert their neighbors--sometimes even when that isn't the Christians' short-term intent, and they're making no attempt to do so. This is a major problem in, e.g., India. Christian NGO workers and facilities have been attacked violently for this reason.
Of course it's even worse when they actually *have* made converts. See the link below for just one example.
And if you go to pray about this, think about how some of your Christian acquaintances would react (or have reacted) to inroads by Buddhists, Scientologists, or whoever, in your community.
Then pray also for the Christians AND their victims, when we've attacked native cultures--try searching
christians mayan codices destroyed
just for one (I'm a linguist by training and avocation, and I'll need at least a year tacked onto my sentence in Purgatory while I learn to forgive those priests and brothers!)--brought in foreign diseases, etc.
P.S. to "andthedragon": There is a flaw with your facts. Namely, they aren't. Let me just cite Catholics and our Church, because I know about us. We have been and are helping "the starving [and/]or AIDs-[af]flicted people of [A]frica" very extensively. We DO show "compassion for the gay community," though certainly not universally, and sometimes there's more lip-service than reality. (Sound familiar from non-religious people?) We do individually "pay taxes to the country," and even as a church WHEN the subject isn't something that the *legislatures* have decided they don't want taxed. And if we do "collect [our] rich members' money and add basketball courts and bowling alleys to [our] buildings," I think you'll find that we have low-cost or free leagues encouraging poor kids (and maybe adults) to use them. Which last is how I'd expect any other Christian group to use such facilities!
P.P.S. BOWLING alleys??? Another Web search turns up a mega-church, World Overcomers, which actually has one. I can't believe they're typical, but I've been wrong before.

Answer 3

Well, when those Christian's only interest is to convert you or help you over a cliff.... I wouldn't necessarily call that helpful. More like annoying. But I don't have a problem with all Christians. Just some Christians. The Christian "I'm right and you're wrong" attitude, and the aire of moral superiority doesn't help either.

Answer 4

I have no problem when Christians are kind. It's a problem when they have an agenda behind their acts.

My mother is sometimes a good person. She's often considerate and helpful. It's when she plays the radio, knowing that I am an atheist, with a preacher shouting that atheists are the "children of Lucifer" and that "a woman's place is in the home" that it starts to tick me off. Or claims that creationism is some kind of science....ugh.

Answer 5

LOL! Surely you jest? Not all christians here are helpful much less very helpful.

I've seen some pretty nasty comments from some of the christians even when it wasn't meant for them or someone wasn't being mean to them.

Answer 6

What do you mean by "non-Christians"? Do you mean atheists? Or do you mean anyone who isn't Christian? If you mean the former, you are being purposely obtuse. If you mean the latter, then I strongly disagree with you. I have no problem with Christians; but it seems to me that some Christians have a problem with me because I'm Jewish. Look at the pot calling the kettle black!

Answer 7

When most Christians are happy and are helpful to others...then the world will truly be a better place...

Currently most fundamentalist Christians are arrogant, self-righteous bigots who are getting into politics...rather than doing the work of God...feeding the hungry, caring for the poor, orphaned and widows.

Answer 8

I always thought it was the other way around since the majority are Christians. Isnt the goal for Christians to convert non-believers. Like what your saying, shouldnt you leave atheists alone since they are happy and try to be for humanity?

Answer 9

How about constant self-righteous preaching, often times even in public when we're trying to enjoy ourselves? Or when the missionary attitude is brought right to my doorstep?

How about religious reasons used for political, social, and cultural agendas, such as attempts to ban stem-cell research?

I don't hate all Christians. I do hate the ones who use religion to justify being irritating or trying to push their agenda in ways that will affect my life.

Answer 10

there is a flaw in your logic. christians are not all happy and they dont try to be very helpful to others. churches are, in fact, the least charitable organizations in the world. they preach and preach but do nothing about the starving or AIDs inflicted people of africa, they do not show any compassion for the gay community, they don even pay taxes to the country, they collect their rich members' money and add basketball courts and bowling alleys to their buildings. also, not all nonchristians are intolerant or rude to these appallingly hypocritical people. most of them think they are funny in their superstitious invisible man loving ways.

Answer 11

Why do christians have a problem?
with non christians, when non christians are happy and try to be very helpful to others?

Boohoo! Poor persecuted christians?!??! Christians are helpful unless you are gay, or not christian.