If so, is that what led you to not believe in God or the Christian faith?
2007-06-08 06:08:35 · 24 answers · asked by Tiffany R 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have been hurt by people of many different faiths. Hurt feeling have nothing to do with me not being a Christian.
And just for the record...just because someone is non-Christian it does not mean they do not believe in God.
2007-06-08 06:12:40 · answer #1 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When I was an atheist, it wasnt anything anybody did, but what I felt inside. I felt hatred toward religion for no paticular reason, and I felt pride in my atheistic philosophy. If I wouldve listened to the only Christian voice in my life at the time, my grandma, then I wouldnt have gone down that road. The bulk of my hurt in life has come from the way I used to do things and dumb decisions I made and the way I treated people, nothing God or his people did to me. If anything, they tried to show me a better way and help me.
People are led in action and belief based on what is in their hearts, not what anybody else does and says.
2007-06-08 13:25:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it's like this I was a Christian at one point in time and I had a bad experience with the church and I ended up losing faith and disgusted with Christians and Christianity. Well anyway recently my godfather/uncle died and I realized something about myself. I was verbally abusing Christians on here and I felt bad about it as I have met some really nice, loving, and caring Christians who love me unconditionally and respect me regardless of what i believe or don't believe and I asked for their forgiveness about a week ago and they actually forgave me. Anyway I've seen some different signs in my life and I'm an Agnostic Theist/Agnostic Deist as I believe there might be sometghin there but i don't know what or who exactly it is. I'm also a Freethinker.
2007-06-08 13:23:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, considering that the majority of Americans are Christians, it shouldn't be a surprise that many of the people who have hurt me in the past have, in fact, been Christians. In 99% of the cases, however, religion had nothing to do with the hurt, and I don't blame all of Christianity for the behavior of that remaining one percent.
My religious beliefs are based on my understanding of the divine and how to best approach it.
2007-06-08 13:23:21 · answer #4 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What led to my disbelief was the growing awareness that there could not be a 'loving' deity who would send perfectly nice people to Hell. Then, I was made aware of the contradictions in the Bible; then that not all people experience the same high/lows. Then I started to philosophize that a single male creation deity was highly unnatural, given that creation/reproductions almost always involves more than one of anything. Even plants need food, water and earth. Sunshine, too. More complex beings need male and female. Life shows that more ideas/opinions create a better, more complex being.
I 'friend' of mine who is Christian hurt me, but that was after the fact and there was another 'friend' who was agnostic
(?) who was even worse. My disbelief is not based on their short-comings.
2007-06-08 13:36:06 · answer #5 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been hurt by christians and non-christians. I choose not to believe the christian faith based on my studies of the bible and learning the truth about organized religion. I have many christian friends and I have no problem if that works for them.
2007-06-08 13:12:27 · answer #6 · answered by Amy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Oh yes. I was hurt very badly by one particular group of them.
However, I was already a non-believer.
I do not believe in the Christian (or any other) faith because the available evidence does not match religious claims.
2007-06-08 13:22:23 · answer #7 · answered by Scott M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It had nothing to do with anything anyone did or said. I just started to feel like the idea of believing in and bowing down and worshiping gods (or A God) was a primitive way of thinking. The idea of gods came about because ancient men needed a way to explain things they couldn't understand. (The sun, the weather, disease, etc.) Over time, we have become educated and found ways to rationally explain things that used to be attributed to gods. Somehow, though, we never let go of the idea of gods. It just didn't make sense to me anymore.
2007-06-08 14:03:46 · answer #8 · answered by Jess H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never seen any reason *to* believe in the Christian God....
I was born an atheist, and became a Wiccan, but I never chose to NOT believe in the Christian god, I just never saw any reason TO believe in said god.
As far as being hurt by Christians, well, the fact that some of them want to legislate against my family does not endear me to them.
2007-06-08 13:13:06 · answer #9 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've been hurt a few times by people in my life. Nothing bad. :) Nothing that most people don't go through (breakups, etc). Their religious affiliation had nothing to do with it, however, and most of these occured AFTER I realized I was an atheist. I began doubting when I was 7 and was calling myself an atheist by the time I was 14.
The short answer to your question is: NO
2007-06-08 13:20:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋