Atheists and Christians, why do you insist on bullying and forcing your ideas down each others throats?

Question

If someone is happy with the path he or she has chosen in life, why force them to believe otherwise?
As Christians I know you believe it's your duty to save us from "burning in hell", but why do you find it so hard to understand that there are actually people out there who DO NOT believe that there is a hell, why dont you let them be?
And Atheists, I know you believe the religious on this site are ignorant and stupid, but ignorance is bliss, and if their beliefs gives them security, them why keep mocking them?
I think that no matter what your beliefs you should do unto others as you want done unto yourself. No one likes being bullied, insulted or having ideas propagated to them, so why do you insist on doing it?
Please explain to me the method behind all your madness.

Sorry, I clicked send twice, same question as earlier.

Answer 1

hmmm no one seems on Y! at this time

i think theres a line between critique and making a mockery of what people consider sacred.

i think the causes of such attacks stem from ignorance about the opponent and ego on one's own side.

the Christian viewpoint is that these people are being denied God's Grace and that they, being the helpful people that they are, will derive satisfaction from making others happy. i think that these people genuinely care for the people whom they are preaching to and so will do many things to show that love- and the greatest act of love would be to bring to them the 'good news' wouldnt it? but if they overdo it, then it gets annoying to many people. especially to athiests because they dont see any point of anything in their religion

I think that athiests have this egoist view that they are the enlightened and must go forth and get rid of ignorance in this world as if its their duty. ive come across missionary men at the station who distribute pamphlets on why hell is a bad place - inferring god to be bad and cruel- but the people were athiests - they dont even believe in what they were giving out- which explains their saddened faces lol. athiesm can be an ideology in its own right.

im a muslim. the Quran says "the truth is from your Lord, so believe if you will, and disbelieve if you will" i.e Your choice!

i'll give u an example of muslim "preaching" even though we dont really have that term...

muslims, when it comes to preaching are just supposed to tell people who they are: muslims, what they believe in (God, the prophets (jesus, Muhammad etc) the unseen (angels, day of judgment etc)

u dont even need to go over everything, just the fact that people know about God and Muhammad is enough. its an ideological, intellectual form of spreading the message that we are after. and if they are interested, good on them, if not, they are free and we cant do anything about it.

IF they want to challenge us, thats fine, but keep it intellectual and the Quran says to preach in a fair and intellectual form of preaching

Answer 2

Personally, I think that everyone, in the privacy of their own minds, has the right to delude themselves in whatever manner they see fit. BUT... when people enter into a public forum, like this one, and begin declaring that the ultimate cosmic TRUTH conforms to the myths, superstitions, fairy tales and fantastical delusions of a gaggle of ignorant Bronze Age fishermen and wandering goat-herders... well, it is the moral and ethical duty of rational human beings to confront such nonsense. Nobody is trying to 'convert' the spouters of such nonsense to sanity... but it is necessary to intervene on behalf of vulnerable minds who might otherwise be influenced by what these yokels have to say. They must be shown that there are sane and rational alternatives to believing that a cosmic Jewish zombie, who is his own father, can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced to eat from a magical tree by an infinitely sadistic being, disguised as a talking snake with legs... If Christians were not here trying to thrust their insane beliefs upon everyone else, then atheists would have absolutely nothing to say. It is simple a matter of being in opposition to stupidity, willful ignorance, gullibility and codified self-delusion.

Answer 3

Don't see to many atheists going crazy about the stuff unless it's to give christains a hard time (in return for getting one from them)

UNLESS there the whole kinda people that make science there religion.... and go all crazy about it..... there the kind to be like if you believe in any divine being then your a moron kinda attitudes.

But thats just stupid .... it's not less or more likely when science comes into play... especially with m-theory .... oh lord if you can acutaly under stand that ... wow... it's wild stuff....

Answer 4

ok, i'm sorry, but i want to defend BOTH these groups. i happen to personally know a lot of atheists and christians myself, and not once have they tried to shove their ideas down my throat! in fact, its not even civil to discuss religion unless within a circle of close friends or family (or, of course, a religious gathering).

if you're merely referring to the r&s regulars, well, the fact that they're regulars tells you that they WANT to discuss religion, and therefore, they naturally advocate their own beliefs -- its just that some lame people overdo it.

Answer 5

I don't bully, and I try very hard to respect other peoples' beliefs.

Most atheists and Christians are the same way.

Answer 6

I just respond to questions asked. You have the option not to read my answers. My answers are not bullying. If you are insulted by intelligent discussion, maybe this is not the place for you.

atheist

Answer 7

I don't. I can't "force" people to believe anything. I'm just here answering questions truthfully from my point of view.

Answer 8

People who post redundantly retarded questions: Why does every other question repeat it self over and over and over again like this one?

Answer 9

Hear Hear. I could not agree with you more. Live and let live.

Answer 10

"i'll give u an example of muslim "preaching" even though we dont really have that term..."


yes you do, it is called Da'wa