Christians...you all have some serious issues to work out?

Question

This is to some Christians, not all of them as I know many beautiful Christians.

When you read something that contains another belief system, you are quick to judge and insult without any fact or reasoning. Do you go around looking for Questions containing other Faiths just to push the "Thumbs Down" Button or to spit out ignorant remarks? Why not look at what we, as representatives of other beliefs, are doing....we are supporting one another, we are giving encouragement to others, we are offering light in the darkest of their times, we spread out knowledge when it is asked for...Isn't this what you all are suppose to be doing??

Quit wasting your time with the copy and paste scriptures from a book we don't follow...it doesn't mean anything to us!! I'm going to hell, she's going to hell, he's going to hell...I mean come on, Your Hell is YOUR place and from the sounds of it, you can keep it.

We don't go to you and push our beliefs on you, we educate when it is asked of us. We speak what we believe and it comes from our Soul, our Mind, our Heart. Do you see us pulling up quotes from our Grimoires when we feel the need to defend something?? We are intelligent and don't require a book to prove a point. There is nothing you can do to change that so you need to learn to deal with it.

Some of you act the way they do, and guess what?! You offer nothing that we need or care to want from you.

And just so you know...I'm not pushing my beliefs on Christians. I'm informing them that we don't believe the same as they do. I don't ever have issues with any other faith spitting on my beliefs except from those that Represent the Christian faith...why is that??

Answer 1

I'm an atheist, and I don't bother correcting anyone but the ones that are messing up the harmony and good will of others. I do know of some good christians, but the ideology of christianity is a pox on humanity. It teaches them to tell everyone else that they're wrong, to shun that which they don't know and can't find support for in the bible or from their religious leaders. They are taught that they have the ONLY truth, and that their heaven or hell is all there is and everyone that doesn't follow what they believe is going to their hell. They believe all of this without proof of ANY of it. Somehow, they can't see that if they discount anyone else's belief because there isn't proof, then others have the same right and duty to discount the christian belief, because it is also unproven. It's been said that ignorance is bliss, and anyone that comes along to bring the light of other ways of thinking, well, they're messing with that bliss. I for one, and glad to be a bliss breaker. If they learn to leave others alone and stop trying to push THEIR religious ideologies onto others as "fact" and "right" then I would gladly leave them alone, but such is not the case. Thank you for taking the time to point this out to them. I think that if they hear it from enough places, it just may seep through the walls of their ideology and get them to consider it.

Answer 2

I completely agree with The Confirmed Atheist's answer! I am not an Atheist, but I have also been very disturbed by the attitude most Christians have...that they possess the only legitimate truth, and all the rest of us, who can't accept their truth, are going straight to their hell, for all eternity. They have the right to believe whatever they want, but so do the rest of us. If I had to believe that God is the way they think he is, I wouldn't even want to exist at all. If I met a man who had the same characteristics as the Christian concept of God, I could not love him or marry him. I probably could not even be his friend.

I am what most would consider New Age. Everything I believe can be found in All the books written by Neale Donald Walsch. It can be found in many other sources, too! But, The Neale Donald Walch books are the most comprehensive, and easy to understand, source that I have ever found. Even an Atheist would find it interesting. *sm*

Answer 3

very similar to my hindrance, i used to be as soon as a christian however not am (and am ninety nine% cconfident i will be able to by no means end up a christian once more). I might say it's like wasting a loved ones member, whether or not they have been honestly alive or no longer is beside the point, it leaves a hole in existence. I feel time is the satisfactory factor, the sort of massive aspect of ones existence, while long gone, will take time to recover from. simply take some time considering all of it by way of, figure out what you do and don't feel.in case you feel there is also a god/god's that laws out being an atheist. in case you feel that god isn't the god the Christians feel to your no longer a christian. don't fear an excessive amount of, IF we're each mistaken i might think constructive that I might be introduced again earlier than i die. exciting factor regardless that, as a christian i by no means believed in hell, there's a critical contradiction with it and the historical testomony for a begin. eventually whether it is gods do we be stored, who're we to withstand and if no longer what are we able to do approximately it? simply are living your existence nevertheless you think you must or might love to. Nice reply Lion of Judah, debateable however nonetheless an excessively well reply, thumbs up for you :)

Answer 4

The fact is there is nothing you can say to "those" people that will change their mind. They are so truly convinced in the "truth and the way" and so utterly sure they are right and you will gleefully tell you how wrong you are, that there just isn't point. I won't lie and say I don't get mad too, I'm just telling you there is no point.
Deep breaths. You know who and what you are and if they chose to bear false witness and be hypocrites with a plank in their eye so be it. Buy their OWN admissions, they will be judged and they have judged others. They will live with it.

Answer 5

The Bible might be meaningless to you in your opinion but that does not mean it is not correct in what it says, teaches and predicts for the future.

Either it's right or it's wrong and your opinion or my opinion is not going to make any difference, because ultimate truth does not depend on our opinions.

The Bible makes it's own case by:

1. Being historically accurate. No historical revelations disprove the Bible's account of history. New historical findings continue to verify the accuracy of the Bible's historical basis.

2. The Bible has proven to be archaeologically accurate. No archaeological evidence has ever been unearthed that disproves the Bible's account of civilizations and cultures that have existed since the beginning of man's life on earth.

3. The Bible has also proven itself prophetically accurate. Hundreds of prophesies recorded in the Bible have been fulfilled to the letter, centuries after they were recorded. The only exception are all of those pertaining to the End Times Events (although the state the world now finds itself in seems to fit some of them) plus return of Jesus Christ to establish His reign on earth, and the subsequent establishing of the new heavens and the new earth.

Because the many details that are verifiable check out, it would seem reasonable to trust the bits that we cannot test and prove.

I would imagine that if your grimoires (or any other book) gave similar verifiable proof of your beliefs then you would happily quote them as an authority?

But if you have a better way of showing me why your belief system is the correct one and why I should trust my life and future on it, and you can do so using just your own words and quoting from no other source , then I am willing to listen to what you have to say and give it very careful and thoughtful consideration.

If you have something that has better evidence for it's claims than the Bible then I would have to be crazy not to at least check it out!

Answer 6

The whole issue here boils down to this, regardless of any good works on your part, or the part of those "Christians" you cite who, by their actions, demonstrate their faith is vain.

Where does salvation lie? The only place where there is any evidence to support where salvation comes from are in the prophesies found in the Scriptures that were preserved by the Jews, who themselves do not believe them.

One was prophesied who would come and save mankind. It wasn't prophesied to be Mohammed.

You can do a good work based in your beliefs, but you still won't attain to salvation. There is only one way through one person.

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Answer 7

As in any organization, in Christendom there are also zealots.
Some do go off the deep end in trying to get their point across.
Sadly, some are trying to get across a point which is not even valid.
There is something called christendom, not to be confused with Christianity.
Christendom is as counterfeit as a $20.00 dollar bill.
Its sometimes hard to distinguish the difference.
However, "pushing" one's ideas on another, in an angry fashion, is one clue.

Answer 8

Yes, we are always hearing how INTELLIGENT you are. You tell us that all the time, and we are just "dumb sheep" not that I care what you call me, believe me, it doesn't matter what you think. If you don't want answers from us, why do you ask questions, oh, yeah, that's right. You are the ones who set the rules how we are to answer questions. "Don't use the Bible when you answer." Whatever. You are hypocrites.
We believe the Bible to be the whole word of God. It is the book we LIVE BY, not just read and quote.
Sorry, we sheep don't follow your flock! We have a Shepherd already. He makes the rules, not you! God Bless

Answer 9

The condecension in the tone of your writing here shows that it is not just Christians who have some issues to work out. I know it can be very frustrating reading some of what it written on this section of Y!A. Believe me, I'm a pastor and I cringe at some of what is said on here by "Christians." But don't let a handful represent Christianity and give you a reason to rail against it, when the vast majority are people similar to the ones you already know.

As a side note, hell is not a place where one goes. It is a state of being separated from God. Nobody goes to hell. Some people are just granted their separation from God for all eternity, which is much worse than any physical punishment that literalists describe as hell.

Answer 10

I really hope you are living in a timezone where it's late.. it's too early in the morning for me to deal with venting, angry witches who want to slice open christians.

Honestly and as a witch, I have to say that this doesn't do anything at all to foster peace or understanding.. it simply perpetuates the very thing you are speaking out against here.

Christians believe strongly in hell.. they believe their way is the only way.. it is as ingrained in who they are as the believe that the earth is our mother is to those of us who are pagan/heathen.. try to consider the source when reading their posts. There are better ways to create open dialogue than this.