Does Christianity make you sad?

Question

Just seeing people with so much hope and faith, but knowing that they're deluding themselves?

O Providence - grant me at least but one day of pure joy - it is so long since real joy echoed in my heart - O when - O when, O Divine One - shall I find it again in the temple of nature and of men - Never? no - O that would be too hard. - Beethoven

So Steve, unless you believe in some sort of universalism, you believe in a specific God. Assuming that you believe in the God of Jesus Christ, who's believers make up 1/3 of this world's population, you are in the minority. How dare you be arrogant enough to not believe in their gods too? Anyway, what the majority believes does not necessarily make it right. After all, how long ago was it that everyone believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe (or that Zeus was almighty God)? Perhaps those uppity Early Christians were told by the Pagan majority that they were right because they were in fact the majority.

Some of these responses are prime examples of my question - people filled with joy in the eternal. What I would give to share in hope with them, but logically, I can not.

Answer 1

Yes, I pity them, still living in medieval superstitions, deluded and all. However, it does not stop at pity, but has escalated into repulsion because they have to try to convince everyone they meet to join their cult. I am sick of hearing about how some politician/union leader died for my sins two thousand years ago. Thanks, but I prefer reality...

I sooo agree with your last statement about logic, for I have tried to find solace in religion and yet it is logic that makes such a feat impossible for me. I want to laugh sometimes when I hear the things they believe. I suppose Harry Potter is real, too, huh?

Answer 2

No, what makes me sad is that so many people with so much hate in their hearts for others are deluding themselves. It makes me very sad when I hear people speak condescendingly to others who do not believe as they do. Or when people will argue until they are blue in the face just to be right. Please don't look down upon others with disgust in your heart who are different or believe differently than you. It is very, very sad. And what Beethoven wrote is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read. Thank you for sharing.

Answer 3

I have known Christians who had very good lives, good education, good careers and they left this world still believing in the God who changed them for the better. They died in hope and faith, and as far as you know, they could be in heaven right now. So why be sad for these people?

Why paint a picture of the poor ole Christian, illiterate, victim of delusions, when the probability is greater that your employer is a Christian, that the students that sit beside you in college are Christian, that your doctor is Christian, etc.?

You really need to wake up, look at reality, and stop your hopeless atheist dreams.

Answer 4

What is sad is that we live in a world where we need to delude ourselves in order to have hope, to have confidence, to even be happy. What truly makes me sad about Christianity is that it serves so well to uplift people's spirits, yet many of those same people pass arbitrary judgments on others in order to protect that faith, condemning everyone around them in order to defend their own ideology. And it becomes worse when this desperate self-preservation through belief mixes into the already caustic world of politics. Hope will kill us all.

Answer 5

Why does it make you sad that other people are having a great life? How are they deluding themselves? I know for me I was athiest and had nothing and felt worthless, but now I am Christian and I have more than everything, and that feeling of worthless ness is gone. Read the Bible, go to church caz there is a whole new life waiting for you.

Answer 6

I'm an atheist but most of my family is Catholic. When my grandfather died last week my family was comforted by their faith. Why would I want to criticize that or try to take that comfort away from them? My comfort came from the fact that he had a long life and it was a good life.

Answer 7

Amen to the 13 year old- she has a lot of wisdom.
Believe me Satan is the deceiver and He is the one that tries to convince people into NOT believing in God. I am not deluding myself- I know my God is the MOST real thing in my life- if you choose to call me a fool- you go right ahead, It is ok by me- He is my HOPE and He could be yours.

Answer 8

Christianity-or rather the Trinity,Christianity's God-is the source of my joy and enduring meaning. My Faith has carried me through so much sorrow with strength and hope and has magnified all my joys.I would not trade my Faith in for all the baubles of the world.

Answer 9

If you don't want to believe, that is your choice, so why does it bother you what others believe? What is sad is that you don't try to truly understand what Christianity is all about and then come on the board and post nonsense like this. Might be time to reflect on yourself instead of others.

Answer 10

The extremists on either side of this argument are kind of pathetic. Nothing wrong with having your own beliefs, but when it defies common sense, you need to second think that.