atheists, non-christians, honestly, why do you think your loved ones, boyfriends, girlfriends, mates, parents, friends, relatives, tell you about Jesus Christ and pray for you?
and honestly, do you think they will be telling you a lie to believe in te goodness of God?
2007-06-11 13:02:30 · 29 answers · asked by sylll 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fortunately my Christian friends are too polite to impose their beliefs on me.
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2007-06-11 15:03:55 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian and I don't know the true depth of love. I can imagine what Christ did for me, but I can't fully understand the complete sacrifice. But because I believe does that make me love my kids more? Absolutely not. The only thing that having my kids did for me as far as love goes, is to help me better understand the love that Christ has for me. Not the other way around. I'm not going to get into the whole "atheist v. Christian" thing. Atheists aren't some lower form of life running around with inferior thinking with no emotion toward anyone or anything just because they don't believe in God. They're people, just like me, that have a different belief system. Not a lower capacity to love their children.
2016-04-01 02:36:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my husband doesn't tell me anything like that because he is a Pagan like myself. My Parents have nothing to do with what I believe or not believe anymore because I am an ADULT and can think for myself and they know that. Most of my friends except the fact that I have a different view on life because they have open minds about the world around them(yes, even the Christian ones) and we all enjoy a lively debate from time to time.
Some people are just more enlightened then others in this world!
2007-06-11 13:21:21 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I keep a lot of religious friends on all sides - including Jews (Chabad - the super duper Jews), Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists. Most consider me to be very knowledgeable in all religions - and they don't try to convert me (I'm Agnostic).
When a person shows that they have arrived at their beliefs through logical analysis, and understand other religions and religious dogma, most of the decent religious people understand and respect the path that they have taken. The people who are ruled by fear, however (fear of being on the wrong path, for example), are the ones who must continually harp and preach. Those are the ones who are inconsiderate towards other people, and are generally ignorant of other religions outside their own (sometimes, they are ignorant about even their own religion).
2007-06-11 13:10:19 · answer #4 · answered by Big Super 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have no doubt that they sincerely hold their beliefs. But their beliefs are delusions. The vast majority of believers believe what they do because they were indoctrinated with those beliefs before they were old enough to even have the ability to think critically. They were taught to trust their feelings and authority figures. Many of them were taught to distrust logic and science. It amounts to very effective brain washing, and only people who are both intelligent and lucky manage to escape it.
If your argument was valid, then why should I not instead listen to Muslims or even Hindus instead of Christians?
2007-06-11 13:30:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jim L 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that they would knowingly tell lies, but I DO think that they, like you, have been seduced by the dominant paradigm. I'll admit, it's difficult NOT to be, to NOT just go along with the crowd, but I believe what I know, and I do not believe what I just can't. There's a whole, long list of things, most having nothing to do with religion, that I don't believe that almost everyone else takes for granted. I am me, and I can't be you. Deal with it.
2007-06-11 13:25:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm a non christian, so is my Dad. My mother was an Atheist, my boyfriend is Agnostic, my friends are many different faiths. Not one of those people has tried to convert me to Christianity.
I would not remain friends with someone who had so little respect for my beliefs.
Everyone does not want to be a Christian, honest.
2007-06-11 13:10:29 · answer #7 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My friends and family don't push their beliefs on me. My father is a deist, my boyfriend is an atheist, my sister is Lutheran, and I have only a guess what my brother believes. My other friends don't spend much time talking about religion. We don't have to have the same ideas about every topic (that would be boring).
2007-06-11 13:09:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's what they believe so they don't think it's a lie. I don't have a belief in god. Some of them do. We don't talk about religion. We love each other for who we are.
2007-06-11 13:10:18 · answer #9 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Native Americans never met Jesus, and never presented himself to them, but Anglo- Saxon's slaughterd them and presented them with Christianity in exchange.
Just because someone is Agnostic or whatever has nothing to do with what you think, so politely piss off.
2007-06-11 13:08:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the argument from popularity - a logical fallacy. Allah must also be real since other people want to tell me about him, too.
No, they don't lie, they actually believe in a loving god who murders babies and drowns kittens.
2007-06-11 13:08:44 · answer #11 · answered by eldad9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋