What is the whole point of doing so? I honestly don't understand it at all. Aren't we all human beings regardless of what religious or non religious labels we claim? Also why do we need to label ourselves? Are we as humans intelligent enough to come up with these labels but foolish enough to claim them as well? Can anybody help to make sense out of anything that goes down here? I'm really starting to lose faith and hope in humanity.
2007-06-07 10:40:50 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
not everybody
so dont loose faith yet
there are still some very tolerant , loving people here
but some people are so set in their ways that anything out side of what they believe seems wrong
so they will naturally defend that
2007-06-07 10:45:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that. Revealed faith is not harmless nonsense, it can be lethally dangerous nonsense. Dangerous because it gives people unshakeable confidence in their own righteousness. Dangerous because it gives them false courage to kill themselves, which automatically removes normal barriers to killing others. Dangerous because it teaches enmity to others labelled only by a difference of inherited tradition. And dangerous because we have all bought into a weird respect, which uniquely protects religion from normal criticism. Let's now stop being so damned respectful!" --Richard Dawkins
Religion isn't part of the human condition--it's not like race or sexual orientation, something that should be automatically respected. Religion deserves no automatic respect. It has earned no automatic immunity from criticism. Face it--it makes some really stupid claims. We're not allowed to call people on their nonsense now? We'd be in a bad situation if that was the case.
2007-06-07 10:45:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I used to go around & around with this one until finally one day I had to put it down.
It's the nature of the beast, to be cliche.
It's human nature to want to take sides & try to beat the other side. Even in a religion that preaches acceptance & love I find myself outcast because I have accepted & loved the 'wrong people.' It's ironic.
I'm not losing faith & hope in humanity, but I have for now lost faith in organized religion & I'm sick of the shallow W.A.S.P.Y values I'm bombarded with every day.
There's always hope for the next generation....
2007-06-07 10:46:59 · answer #3 · answered by Fathiya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i can say as a christian we are portrayed as someone who tells people whats wrong with their life without loving the person first. We are supposed to love the sinner and hate the sin. set an example in our own lives and hang out with the people others would look down upon. Even jesus hung out with thieves and prostitutes.
He never did what they did but he accepted them as humans that he loved very much.... Alot of Christians don't show this anymore and I apologize for the stereotype they have given us few.
2007-06-07 10:53:09 · answer #4 · answered by prometida 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh Blah Blah Blah. That's WAY too many questions for me to answer. But basically, certain types of people believe that you should live your life a certain way. Others believe differently. So all the people that believed one thing called themselves Christians, Muslims, Atheists, and the list goes on.
2007-06-07 10:46:00 · answer #5 · answered by JE 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well that's one huge generalization, don't you think?
A lot of people are big enough to respect other's opinions. Sadly, a lot are not. But it's not an "everybody" thing.
I respect other people's beliefs. I don't respect the idea that they constantly try to convert me. That's a whole different thing.
2007-06-07 13:15:36 · answer #6 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who don't accept other's beliefs or lack of beliefs just fear what else there could be. They want to believe in their faith, but they don't have enough faith to believe, so it makes them feel better about their faith to lack respect for other beliefs.
2007-06-07 10:45:57 · answer #7 · answered by Lindsay M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because everyone else is WRONG!...:-))
As an agnostic, I must say that I derive a strange pleasure out of watching all of the faithful and faithless ranting and raving in their useless debates....
I get the same kind of feeling when I watch ants fight each other...;-)
2007-06-07 10:43:01 · answer #8 · answered by Saint Christopher Walken 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry it's not 'everybody' you happen to be in a forum of people who actully give some of their time to answering questions and putting forward their own ideas. 90% of the planet truly don't give a rats testicles and would rather watch big brother.
2007-06-07 10:46:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most people respect the beliefs of others. But the vocal minority make it seem otherwise.
2007-06-07 10:44:29 · answer #10 · answered by Fretless 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋