For christians who bash other religions?

Question

If a Christian says he/she has the love of God in them how do they justify hating a different religion. Can love and hate exist in a person and the same time?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. While we were yet sinners Christ died for us.


and your religion sucks.. (just kidding) (unless you are the order of the purple doughnut .. then you're pagan heathen goofball and I don't care who knows it) .. (hehe just kidding) .. (but seriously)

I mean Jesus() called those farasees (sp?) and Sadyoosees (sp?) broods of vipers and all that jazz.

Just because I bash your religion, doesn't mean I hate you. but even if I do hate you. .. so what? That's a flaw of mine. If you think Christians are, or should be, without flaw. I think you got somthing fundamentally confused.

And all these hippy Christains on here can go get neutral about somthing. I reserve the right to dislike anything and to verbally bash it, if I feel the need to. I take quite enough verbal bashing myself. If I don't like your religion then there's likely a good reason.

But I honestly can't think of a religion I've ever actually detested. Should I find one though, I reserve the right to verbally bash it.

Answer 3

It is not "other religions" that God forbids the Christian to hate, but *people*. There is a *huge* difference!

Romans 12:9 reads, "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good."

Furthermore, in 2 Corinthians 10 Paul says to the church there, "I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and *every pretension* that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive *every thought* to make it obedient to Christ."

What are other religions but pretensions & thoughts that set themselves up against the knowledge of God?

Outside the church this is called apologetics, but we do this even inside the church; it's called polemics. Neither is done out of hate for a person, but in love so that they may be brought to repentance & eternal life through the blood of Jesus Christ alone.

Answer 4

As a Christian i obviously don't believe other religions are true/valid. But i've never intentionally 'bashed' their followers. We're supposed to be like Jesus so we can, and should, try to show others the right way but we should do this while showing them the respect and love which make Christianity so different and revolutionary.
God Bless

Answer 5

The word hate gets used often now days as if one can not disagree with something without hating it. I miss the good old days before politically correct people infiltrated the world with this "no one can say anything against anyone and make them feel bad" ideology. It's absurd because it promotes the use of emotions without restraint. An intelligent person is very, very capable of disagreeing with something without hating it. I often disagree with things said here but I would have to be an emotional infant to hate them.

Answer 6

i do no longer understand. i've got considered an poor lot of Muslim bashing, Atheist bashing, and Pagan bashing in this internet site, too (besides to Christian bashing). And, as a Pagan, i are transforming into greater hate mail and dying threats from this internet site from human beings claiming to be Christian. as a count of actuality - all my "fan" mail comes from Christians. So - i do no longer think of the bashing is unique to Christians being the only one's bashed. i think of we are all being knocked around via eachother. the only people who seem to do little or no to no bashing and who are not bashed as usually, are the Buddhists. perchance we can all learn some thing from them?

Answer 7

Hating bad ideas is not a sin, hating people is. To take a very extreme example:

If Churchill didn't hate Nazism, maybe we would have the Nazis come to the UK. Our Jews, disabled, gypsies and gays would have been killed, 100s of years of political freedom would be gone. Our radar and nuclear technology, which we gave to the US, would be in the hands of Herr Adolf. USSR would perhaps have been too weak to prevent Hitler conquering their land. There would be perhaps have been an arms race between US and Germany for nuclear bomb. Hitler may well have won, and with his mindset would have been much more likely to use them on Washington and New York.

Answer 8

I don't hate other religions, i think everyone should have the freedom to worship in any way they choose as long as they're not harming anyone :) Sadly the majority of people on yahoo (and probably in the world) are not really Christians, all they do is cover up their own prejudice with religion and just see in the Bible what they want to see, and not what's really there.

Answer 9

Maybe you're confusing hating the person with hating what a religion teaches. If it's doctrines are lies or evil or deny God, then we should hate it and be against it. But just because someone may hate the lies doesn't mean they hate the people. Have you never read in the bible, "Hate what is evil. Cling to what is good."

Answer 10

Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Hate the false doctrine, but love the people who believe it.

We don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12

Do you know why God said "judgment begins in the house of God?" The reason is that Satan ministers as a pastor of light and deceives many. There are many false doctrines in this world and Jesus says He will say to these people, "I never knew you."

Spiritual wickedness is fallen angels, demons, evil spirits and Lucifer (satan, devil) himself.

Love and hate can definitely exist in a person at the same time. I hate sin and I want all sin out of my life. To sin against God is the worst thing a person can do as far as I am concerned and I've done it many times, but I work hard at never doing it again.

Answer 11

Good Christians don't bash. I used to bash evolution, though, but now I've seen it compared to bashing religions, so I stopped. I still have my same opinions, I just don't bash with them. If I was a basher, I have several scriptures to use in my defense, but I don't choose that waste of time.