is a potential convert? It seems so to me, in many cases, the 'walking wounded' are drawn to suffering like flies to honey...comments?
2007-08-11 05:06:22 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes I feel cynical today...
2007-08-11 05:07:00 · update #1
Hello,
No, I'll also look after a sick dog, cat or other injured animal without preaching to it how to reach salvation. Anyway while someone is suffering, it is hardly a good time to yap and bombard them with religious ideas. Just do what is natural and help them as you would want to be helped under similar circumstances.
Cheers,
Michael
2007-08-11 05:17:21 · answer #1 · answered by Michael Kelly 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ambulance Chasing and Grave Robbing are important if the church is to maintain and expand its glorious and opulent institutions.
Investing some time exploiting an opportunity to take credit for any improvement in the lot of a person is a shrewd investment. The illusion of benefit by association is best achieved by introducing oneself at the lowest possible ebb of an individual's experience and, simply,. being there while things inevitably get better.
An alternative tactic is to terrorise people with threats of hell and damnation as they're dying UNLESS they sign their worldly estates over to the church in they're wills. This works best on sufferers of dementia, which is handy because a lot of dying people get that.
2007-08-11 12:58:06 · answer #2 · answered by Frog Five 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a common tactic amongst the evangelicals to worm their message in to those who are most vulnerable to it. Those people are the ones that are undergoing emotional trauma, who cannot think clearly at that moment.
How else can an otherwise rational person accept the unbelievable without evidence?
But, given time, I am sure, when the suffering person has regained their rationality, they will begin to question what they had previously accepted. So, at best, the conversion will be only of a temporary nature.
2007-08-11 12:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by CC 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You're taking the gloves off today! =D We all go there from time to time.
The one thing ALL living creatures have in common is suffering. Only the sociopath can look upon suffering in a completely detached way.
Suffering seems to be a big part in the scheme of 'things'. It is a great teacher...probably the greatest guru of all times!
The ones who take in the suffering to add 'numbers' to their church or sect are businessmen. And, of course, the down trodden are looking for a place to lay their head. They help one another out in a strange way.
2007-08-11 14:15:21 · answer #4 · answered by Eve 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It can't believe that there are people who view trying to convert a suffering person as being compassionate. Compassion involves talking to the person and trying to help them overcome the problem by themselves, not using their suffering to direct them to a deity. A truly compassionate person would not mention religion until they had helped the person become whole again, because organized religion isn't a cure for suffering, it is a crutch. Religion isn't fulfilling if you rely on it to help you through your everyday existence, it's only fulfilling if you view it as a guide for self-improvement...
2007-08-11 16:18:17 · answer #5 · answered by Shinkirou Hasukage 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You spend a lot of time on the computer! Are religious people attracted to people who are suffering? I don't think so well maybe at first but then you get immune just like everyone else. Religious people need to be attracted to suffering people!
2007-08-11 12:12:01 · answer #6 · answered by curiouscanadian 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I would rather have a caring religious person help me out when I am suffering then forcing the taxpayers to pay for my health care.
Who has more of an agenda? A religious person may try to convert you, but you can say no. You can't say no to what the government forces.
2007-08-11 12:17:47 · answer #7 · answered by Mystine G 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, maybe that's the case for some religious people. But to tell you the truth, I'm more "attracted" to intelligent, skeptical people. THEY'RE the ones I like to talk to, because they challenge my faith, and they're more fun. Those who are suffering sometimes let bitterness get the best of them.
2007-08-11 12:12:26 · answer #8 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe that every human being with a fairly developed conscience tends to lend a jand to those in need. It has nothing to to with religion: it's just a matter of values and conscience.
By the way, I'm atheist, and yet, I always lend a hand to the needy.
2007-08-11 14:23:17 · answer #9 · answered by Love_my_Cornish_Knight❤️ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A proud and hardened heart is rarely willing to accept the truth (I didn't say it was impossible, just rarely). Those that suffer, hurt, feel at a loss have a softer heart. They are not so proud and full of themselves, and are more willing to accept the truth of the Lord.
Think of the Pharisees and their pride during the time of Jesus. They didn't think they needed a savior, because they had the power... who needs a God when you control things, but their hardened hearts led them astray and they will live in judgment for it.
It should be noted that any man can become broken of their pride.
2007-08-11 12:16:05 · answer #10 · answered by L.C. 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋