Atheists & the rest of you: When you say horrible things about God & Jesus...........?

Question

It would be the same thing as a Christian saying horrible things about your father.

We think of God as our father. What makes you so insensitve? God isn't just a topic of conversation for us. God is our life.

I will prove this point by the disrespectful posts I get. Everyone take notice who these irreverant pukes are.

There is nothing in this question that is shoving anything down anyone's throat. Many of you love to use that phrase so we'll shut up. I have every right to post my feelings. Not very many "real" answers to my "real" question. THE QUESTION IS DIRECTED TO THOSE WHO DO SAY HORRIBLE THINGS - NOT EVERYONE. Like many atheists like to say to me, don't take everything so seriously - so if this does not apply to you I don't want your response.

I APPOLOGIZE FOR THE IRREVRANT PUKE THING. PLEASE FORGIVE ME. I AM A HUMAN W/ FLAWS JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE BUT THAT WASN'T A NICE THING FOR ME TO SAY.

Thank you for your answers. The "irrevrant pukes did not come knocking this time" just real answers. Even though we don't agree doesn't mean we can't be OK w/ each other. And again, I feel bad about the irrevrant puke statement. That WAS disrespectful and rude. :)

Answer 1

I respect you Kaliko and your beliefs and I would never speak anything irreverently about God our Father and His Son, Jesus.

Answer 2

You have a right to believe what you believe. But there are so many people on the net that just always say be one with the lord and your problems will be solved. Even Christians often take issue with this constant posting on the net. And then there are the reborns who feel the need to evangelize without even knowing much about christanity.

And many you can not even have a decent converstion with as there is only one way and thats that. No open debate, no making a case nor even giving the other party the opportunity to hear a good case and get closer to be convinced of their side. Its like (pardon the analogy) those who post about Bush or world politics without the benefit of just knowing a bit more about it.

There is a time, place and venue for everything. And there is the approach.

Answer 3

God is your life, and by your own admissions, he may or may not exist. You have faith he exists, but isn't faith just another word for hope? I think most of us realize that you christians HOPE with every fiber of your being that God is real.

Saying you HOPE something is real is a FAR cry from the fact of whether or not it is real. I think of you in the same light as someone who hopes he will win the lottery. The odds are astronomical that a God exists. Events cannot be predicted beyond a certain extent but occur in a random and arbitrary manner.

Some would argue on the grounds that if there were complete set of laws, that would infringe on God’s freedom to change His mind and to intervene in the world. It’s a bit like the old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that He can’t lift it? But the idea that God might want to change His example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time. Time is a property only of the universe that God created. Presumably, He knew what He intended when He set it up. With the advent of quantum mechanics, we have come to realize that events cannot be predicted with complete accuracy but that there is always a degree of uncertainty. If one liked, one could ascribe this randomness to the intervention of God. But it would be a very strange kind of intervention. There is no evidence that it is directed toward any purpose. Indeed, if it were, it wouldn’t be random. Thus, no free will. This would be another paradox for you to explain.

Answer 4

Can I just make one thing clear. I don't say anything disrespectful about any-body's beliefs or about them. However if I am disrespected I will gladly show the same disrespect back towards the people or person who disrespects me just as I will be more then willing to show the person or people who show me respect the same respect as well. I simply ask questions about things. Nothing more and nothing less. I admit that in the past I may have been somewhat disrespectful with some of my posts and I admitted to that in one of my questions the other day. I also admitted to many things the other day. So to start off on a false premise and say that everybody is doing it is just flat out wrong. I have and am trying to be nicer to people who are different then me. I hope that you can be the same way as well.

Answer 5

I'm one of the "rest of you"...whatever that means. I'm Jewish and I never say anything disrespectful or horrible about God or Jesus. Just saying that I don't accept Jesus as the Messiah is not the same as saying "horrible" things. Can you say the same thing about Christians? Have you seen some of the horrible things Christians have said about Jews? Why don't you address that problem? Stop whining and grow up. "Irreverant pukes", indeed....How mature you must be.

Answer 6

Not sure where I stand on this, I haven't made up my mind on the existence of God to me.

But I do not think your comparison of God to someone's human father is a good one. That person's father is here, tangible, and you have no choice of believing he exists. You can touch him, hear him, talk with and Hear him talk back, see him... etc. God is something different to each person, whether they believe he exists or not. And there is no proof but faith. And faith is different to each person.


People don't ask things on here to hear what They want to hear, they ask things to hear Other peoples' opinions and ideas.

No disrespect intended. And I am most definitely not an irreverant puke. Now who is being disrespectful?

Answer 7

Christians can say horrible things about my father if they want, because in a lot of ways he is a horrible person. So as long as the horrible things they say relate to the horrible parts of him I'm okay with it, because it's the truth.

In the same way, I believe that God has many horrible qualities. I know Christians don't like to believe that, and I can understand why they wouldn't, but statistics don't lie, and the Old Testament of the Bible frequently paints God as a horrible person, willfully decimating entire civiliations who refuse to quit believing in their own rich traditional heritage and worship him as the one and only God, and even his own worshipers when they don't worship him in the way he wants. I believe that is a horrible thing to do, and it's nothing more than the truth, so I will say it, even if it may be considered "insensitive," because that's the kind of person that I am.

Answer 8

Saying the truth is not disrespectful. If my father was a wife-beating alcoholic, saying so would not be disrespectful if it were true.

I am sure you see idiots post rude and stupid things here about god and Jesus. They are trying to get your goat. OTOH , saying I don't think god exists or that Jesus was divine is just me stating my view of the information.

Usually I see people post things describing inaccuracies in the Bible or thigns we no longer believe like owning slaves and beating them.

If you believe that the Bible is the unerring, literal word of god then maybe you are offended by that but it doesn't change the fact that these things are in the Bible

Answer 9

Generally speaking we don't say horrible things about God (or Jesus).

Saying that I don't believe in God is not insulting. If you find that statement so, then sorry...

Saying that the Christian Church has been a cause of pain, bloodshed and suffering throughout history is a fact. Plain and simple.

The same could be said about other religions too... so don't take that one personally.

Answer 10

My father actually exists, Peanut. I have photographs of him, I can see him, touch him, and he answers in a voice that other people can hear when I talk to him. Not the same thing at all.

There, nothing disrespectful about your god. But I'm sure you'll find some way of putting a persecution spin on this.