What is the worst religious comment you heard?

Question

I worked with the son of baptist missionary and asked him about his faith. I posed a question relating to the concept of missionaries and asked: If a person was born, lived their life good but never met a missionary or was never taught of religion maybe being born in africa or some very isolated region.... I asked him... when that person died never knowing of God, would he or she go straight to hell? The person I asked this question to took about one second to pause before saying a one word anwer of ....yes with no explanation other that saying that is the job of missionaries to travel all the world.

Do you got anything that can top that one?

Answer 1

I have heard worst. A Christian on this forum said that unborn and newly born children inherit all of the sins their parents have committed and haven't repented of. Thus they are sinful and if they die, they go to purgatory or hell, no heaven.

I almost vomited when I read it...the idea that an unborn child shares the guilt of their parents and at death would be punished for it!

Answer 2

It never sieces to amaze me what religious people will say and believe. Not all of them just a select few. There are actually versions of the bible or sections of it, which have been interpreted by certain individuals to mean that black people should be slaves, torture is forgiveness (corporal mortification etc) sanctuary is in suffering and many other 'perverted deformities of the bible's words'.

When you consider christianity for instance. Jesus Christ was from Israel yes. So he must have been an Israeli yes. Yet in so many portraits or images Jesus has blonde hair and blue eyes and pale white skin. I lived in Israel for 1 year and I didn't see one native with those features.

Also why do all these countries believe that jesus was the son of God or God incarnate whatever, when the actual people from Jesuses native country don't even believe that.

I know that it's an old well used example but nothing else can question religion quite so aptly as : 'if there is a god, why is there wars and starving people and disease etc'.

Why would a god favour us to be here with beautiful homes, air conditioning, lots of food, clean hospitals and all those things, and yet some of the same people who pray to him/her/it, suffer unimaginable existences of poverty and pain.

I try to be open minded but sometimes my friend, I think that the worst religious comment that I've ever heard is "THE BIBLE", or the "KORAN" and any other dogmatic rule book or should I say 'saintly verse' implemented by ancient clerics or ecclesiastical tyrants.

Answer 3

I will not answer directly, but I will say...

The one thing Christ showed anger toward, and never allowed, was the condemnation of innocents. Whether it be God, children, or even people of other faith traditions such as the Samaritans who practiced an altered form of what Abraham taught.

When teaching the Greeks, Paul didn't say how blasphemous they were, he said they were very religious, having many gods, and he came to tell them about their statue to the unknown god, and then told them of Christ.

Obviously Paul was monotheistic, being a Jew turned Christian, but he used the gentlest method to teach, as though nurturing an infant to use his own written analogy.

Spiritual food should be given differently according to the needs of the recipients. Don't give the spiritually diabetic loads of sweets, nor the spiritually starved only celery. Give the diabetic celery, and the starved the sweets, until all are well balanced and nourished to full vital health.

God bless.

Answer 4

Boy that is a doozy. Infants, little children, and adults in true ignorance cannot sin because they never had the law to break. Sin is the breaking of the commandments of God, and those who never had the commandments cannot know they are breaking anything. How could a just and merciful God send an infant or innocent adult to hell just because they didn't know better or have a chance to repent and be baptized? Such a belief this missionary had is a solemn mockery to the grace of God and he himself is in danger of hell.
There are even passages in the Old Testament that tell the Jews to offer animal sacrifices for those who sinned ignorantly. Under Christ animal sacrifices were done away, with Jesus offering Himself up as the last and infinate sacrifice... and His blood atones for those who are infants or die as adults in true ignorance.
Boy I can't believe the ignorance of some men who call themselves ministers of God!

Answer 5

i've got observed that quite a few human beings do this, and not purely with non secular stuff. It happens a lot with the gay debate. Like while rapidly human beings say that homosexuals chosen to be homosexuals. they don't take under consideration that they by no skill chosen to be rapidly, and merely assume that they comprehend what is going on in a gay's head. that is incredibly a lot merely lack of information and assuming stuff. i'm guessing they have not tried comprehend-the way it, which I additionally see a lot. not even attempting to reason or understand and merely think of that they are maximum appropriate. that is incredibly unhappy in case you think of roughly it. It additionally on occasion includes not thinking questioning from the different man or woman's attitude. although, that could additionally tie in with the not attempting to appreciate. yet, maximum Christians do think of that their faith is the only real and maximum appropriate faith, so as that would lean over into different categories. different faiths and time-honored time-honored stuff. i've got additionally witnessed it in technological know-how, extremely evolution and the super Bang. maximum of that got here from on right here, too. Oh, and, i'm not an Atheist. i'm technically Pagan. yet, i'm a Heathen Pagan. And, my not having a relationship with God hasn't led me into melancholy. that is different human beings that do this. Edit: Oh, and that i need to additionally point out out the reality that if nonbelievers look indignant/ depressed/ disenchanted or regardless of, that is not by using fact they have not got a relationship with God. the relationship with God could have been destroyed by using fact of their being enable down in existence.

Answer 6

I'm an Atheist, but was raised Christian, had a Great-Grandfather who was a preacher and I attended Christian schooling. When I was a child I asked my Pastor in school, "How do you know there's a God if you can't see him?" He answered, "Well, you don't see the AIR but you know it's there, right?" Not good enough for me. Even as a child. I knew back then we had scientific proof of an atmosphere. That was my earliest memory of doubt.

Answer 7

be happy with what god gives you or he will also infect your daughters. this is how Satan started out and god isn't going to get fooled again

tigerlily: go ahead and have contempt for your fellow man as you have contempt for God himself. Your day of judgment is near and you can debate this with God. When that happens don't be surprised if he tells you "Ron" told you so!

This is right up there with the worst, most condescending, and cruel religious comment I have heard lately and you call yourself a Christian??

Answer 8

That aids is god's way of killing gays.

Pretty much anything that has to do with homosexuality and the church actually. I have heard people say that the reason why children are molested is because the spread of homosexuality more then a few times. It disgusts me.

Answer 9

It's like this, If I lived on an isolated island and I was the only one who knew Jesus Christ and had accepted Him as my saviour(HE is the only door to Heaven John 10:9, good works won't get us there),And I failed to tell my children about Christ, then they wouldn" know to tell their children ect... ect...It's sad to say ,but Yes they would go to hell. It wouldn't be God's fault, It would be my fault! Does that mean that God doesn't love them? Absolutely not. It would be me who didn't love my children enough to tell them about GOD. So you see, this is what has happened over the ages, way back in Bible times, someone failed to tell there children and others about God. That's why God calls missionaries, pastors, preachers, teachers and all Christians NOW to wittness and tell others about Him. He loves the human race so much that he doesn't want them to go to Hell. But so MANY refuse the call, so therefore MANY go to Hell. So sad!! "We ARE our brothers keeper" whether we want to admit it or not!

Answer 10

A specific question was asked on R&S some time back about whether it would be worse on a person if their child died or if their child turned from Christianity. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgCc4.Kg.qJKuRcAVHZwbGPsy6IX?qid=20070716111544AA4KlsR

The majority of the Christians who answered said they would rather their child die than for them to stop being
Christians.

Now that is VERY SCARY to me!