hostile much?

Question

I recieve emails from many people but mainly Christians. I use logic back and forth. most are very polite to begin with. THEN they realize I am not going to be "saved". Or I bust so many holes in their Ideas that they become hostile. Or resort to calling me names saying I will be sorry on judgement day.

Do you think that it is because they are afraid I am right and it is a defense reaction? Or deep down they are the mean vile wicked people they have always been? Seems like their ZEN or Salvation gets lost quick.

I know Atheist do the same thing. However, we are not claiming to represent Something other than our selves.

max boob? Hitler Much?

max boob? Hitler Much?

Answer 1

People don't like to hear the truth, and you threaten thier security blanket: religion.

Answer 2

I can't speak for anyone else but I have had a few instances where people (atheists or otherwise) have emailed me and what has begun as a question or two to be clarified has dragged on and on until I have had to just stop responding. Some people are like a dog with a bone and they just won't let it lie. You get religious people because you are an atheists. I get atheists and agnostics because I am a Christian. I think the real group is the difference between the type of people that will enter into an email debate and the people who won't. Beliefs don't seem to make much of a difference one way or another in that case.

Answer 3

Think about it. What type of person e-mails another person to argue with them? Any Christian who would not get all worked up would not see any need to get involved in an email debate in the first place.

Try this. Change your avatar name, and pretend to be a die-hard Christian for a few days. You will find the same reaction from any religion (or lack thereof) among those who email you to debate.

Answer 4

I have experienced this often too. As a former Christian, I understand where they're coming from (though I never got angry when in that situation)...

They find it justified because once they realize you're actively fighting them, they believe you're siding with the devil. The less intelligent ones get angry for the reasons you mentioned.

Answer 5

Ironically, I'm often accused of already having my mind made up when I don't accept "massive stretches of imagination" as evidence for the Bible.

Answer 6

Yes, its because you struck a chord in them that they didn't like. They have no answers to the things you're saying, so they begin acting like a whiney child.

Answer 7

Well, since I am only hearing your side of the conversation how can I really comment on it?

Answer 8

I always send replys saying... I hope your day is wonderful... and thank you for allowing me to experience their Christian love... I love it when they "accidently" push the caps lock... don't you??

Answer 9

Your logic scares them... anger is almost always fear based...

(so why was god always so angry? lol)

Answer 10

"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth." ------- THOMAS JEFFERSON


"Christianity...[has become] the most perverted system that ever shone on man....Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and imposters led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus." ------ THOMAS JEFFERSON

"In every country and in every age the PRIEST/PASTOR has been hostile to liberty; he is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." – THOMAS JEFFERSON

"...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, 'Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,' which was rejected-----'By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.'" ----- From Jefferson's biography:

Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in. (From 'THE AMERICANS' by D. Boorstin) --------- THOMAS JEFFERSON

"If the American people ever allow the banks to control issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied." -THOMAS JEFFERSON

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to
whom it properly belongs."-- THOMAS JEFFERSON, U.S. President.

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"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together." -- James Madison

"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people." - James Madison

"HISTORY records that the money changers(Jews) have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance". -- James Madison
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"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved--the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"--John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson

"The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity." --John Adams

"The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." - John Adams, Founding Father and 2nd US President.




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"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
-- Abraham Lincoln


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"If they be good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa, or Europe; they may be Mohammedans, Jews, or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists." – GEORGE WASHINGTON


They (the Jews) work more effectively against us, than the enemy's armies. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties and the great cause we are engaged in... It is much to be lamented that each state, long ago, has not hunted them down as pest to society and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America. (From The Maxims of George Washington by A. A. Appleton & Co.) ---------- GEORGE WASHINGTON:


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I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.

In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.

For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.

If you do not exclude them from these United States, in this Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives our substance and jeopardized our liberty.

If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses (banks) rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. ---------- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."-- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1758

"I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity." -- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, _Works_ Vol.VII, p.75

"If we look back into history for the character of the present sects of Christianity, we shall find few that have not in turns been persecutors and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution on the Roman church, but preactied i on the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice both here (England) and in New England"-- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 1758

Christianity [Religion] I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another."-- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN