How can 80% of Americans be "christians" when there is too much hate is this country?

Question

I saw someone say many people say they are religous when asked just to avoid a confrontation with fundamentalists.

Answer 1

I'm Christian, but I'm beginning to see that the most violent people on earth today are always extremely religious.

Answer 2

Hate comes in many forms and fashions, to single out Christians and lump all of them together, is no different. Bigotry, as one suggested, has been prevelant since early man first learned to walk, even before Christians, Muslims, and other religions.

Something to consider: More people have been killed, more wars started over religion alone, than any other reason.

I for one, admit I am prejudiced, I hate everyone, its a joke. There are those that will hate/ not like you, just because you are not them, but to say that 80% of Americans are Christian, is a far stretch. For to be Christian, means to be Christ like, a lot may claim that Christianity is their religion, but by no means does that make them a Christian.

But then again, thats just my jaded two cents worth... As for Muslim and Islam, if you read the Koran, you will find it is against all non-muslims. At least Christianity tries to convert you, not behead you, when you don't believe.

Answer 3

I think Christians have problems with hate because of a basic tenet of Christianity: That Christianity is the one true religion and that everyone who is not Christian is going to hell. This basic tenet, added to an absolute belief in good and evil, leads to intolerance and disrespectfulness of other religions and cultures, leading to hate. Perhaps if Christianity was brought back to what Jesus taught, there would be less hate in a Christian-filled nation. But I do not see that happening, because, after all, they are the one true religion. How can you change truth?

Answer 4

There is absolutely no co-relation whatsoever between a person's or groups religious or non-religious beliefs and their adherence to most moral/ethical code systems be they the Christian codes or whatever.

Religious fundamentalists be they Christian,Islamic ,Jewish etc are no more moral/ethical than any other group religious or not.

In fact,many studies show clearly that the more religious fanatical/zealotous a person or group becomes the more RACIST and amoral and dangerous they are.

Literally thousands of examples of this truism exist but one in particular stands out.

The Christian fundamentalist movement in the US was founded in 1845 not because of any profound theological schism but solely because all Christian Churches at that time around the world had become abolitionists and the Southern powerful wealthy slave estate owners desperately needed a Church that would give GOD's blessing to slavery.

With God's blessing,these societal leaders could use the powerful emotive power of GOD to convince ordinary Southerners to eventually wage a civil war .

Into this void jumped the a very anti-Christian business orientated racist number of clergy to form their own Church,i.e. The Southern Baptist Convention,the largest Christian fundamentalist group to this day in the US.

Even after these vile anti-Christian racist "Christians lost the Civil War ,they merely re-grouped under powerful/wealthy other Southerners and politicians to create the horrid Jim Crow Laws.

For the next 100 years from 1860s to the 1960s ,Blacks continued to be tortured,lynched,raped,used and abused and violated by the good little Southern Christian fundamentalists.

To insure that their "un-official" slavery continued,these lovely Christian Fundamentalists formed the TERRORIST group called the KKK.As the historical record shows,there was mass co-membership in the KKK and the fundy Churches.

It was only in the 1960s and the enacting of the Civil Rights Law that this filthy,disgusting anti-Christian ,CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST RACIST JIM CROW OBSCENITY at long last destroyed .

Now before you stinking monumental hypocrites come screaming to the defence of these henous Christian Fundamentalists,all that I write here is IN THE HISTORICAL RECORD and most important all of this is testified to by the racist Southern Baptist's Official Apology to the Blacks dated June 20,1995 in which they at least confess to their horrid anti-Christian racism and violence.

WAY TO LITTLE,WAY TO LATE !!!!!

so to answer your question,you can see as I originally avered that their is NO corolation between religion and moral/ethical behavior so stop looking for it.

The religious especially the religious fundamentalists are the worst of the lot .

Not withstanding their 1995 Official Apology to Blacks,these fundies,no longer able to exorcize their highly dysfunctional personaes ,have now turned their vilifying/demonizing racist filth onto homosexuals,evolutionists,abortionists etc.

There is simply NO end to their hate .Like sexually transmitted diseases it just jumps from person to person damaging/ruining/destroying everything it comes into contact with.

Answer 5

I've heard 83-87%, yet only 15% of Christians tithe. That's why people have coined terms like "True Christian" to set the rest apart. A "True Christian" knows and understands the Bible and doesn't shun others away from Christianity based on their misconceptions. That is why I believe alot of people are turned off by religion. These so called Christians make up ideas to fit what they want to believe and pass it on to others. Most of these ideas obviously don't add up upon further study and that is why I believe there is so much confusion related to what Christianity really is. -A True Christian

Answer 6

Have you ever noticed that a lot of extremely religious people hold a lot of hatred for those that aren't like them?

I think the 80% calculation is a little high...but I'm not suprised at all... many Christians are brought up to look down on people that do not believe in the same God that they do. I'm Catholic, if I believed everything the church said I would hate homosexuals, those that get abortions, those that use birth control, those that cheat on their spouses...

God doesn't breed hatred, it's people's interpretation of RELIGION that does.

Answer 7

Jesus, where are you getting this? And who are you looking at? If you're basing this all on poiticians, then yeah, Christians would seem hateful but they are not real. They say they are Christians to get the support of that 80% of the country. Sorta like mini anti-christs.

and by the way I am against killing babies.

Answer 8

People say they are "Christian" but don't apply the teachings to their lives. Unfortunately even among those who would consider themselves devout, there are still some that are racist, sexist, homophobic and otherwise hateful people who claim hold to the faith.

Answer 9

Its not the relegion that is bad (well sometimes it is)
but the hypocrytical people who lead/follow it

Christians get extra notice because there are alot of tham and they say they are better than everyone else

also many of the world powers are Christian

so they conquer and convert other people




everyone does it, its just that christians have done it most recently

Answer 10

why do u say "hate" America with its many religions is also the melting pot of the world, we have more different countries represented living here that there will always be a difference of opinion!, not hate!

Answer 11

Most hate in the world today stems from some religion or another mainly between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Even some sects or denominations within the same religion fight each other.