A lot of people here have been turned off to the concept of God or religion. What caused this? What happined? I'm not saying its right or wrong or anything, I am just curious as to why so many people in this forum are bitter towards God. What hppined in your life to cause this?
2007-09-22 05:23:54 · 20 answers · asked by apple1821 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Let me preface this by stating I'm a believer. Too often Christian fundamentalists have pushed their very limited views on many people. People who were not interested nor receptive. When these people rejected the doctrine being espoused, they were called every name in the book and told they were going to hell. Some recruiting practice. The fundamentalists have done more to damage Christianity than their make believe Satan could ever have done. They have given all religions a black eye.
2007-09-22 05:35:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not turned off toward the possibility of God, or the possibility of an afterlife.
However based on how the books describe than I think ...
1. I do not find it a positive thing to spend eternity worshiping.
2. God's hatred toward women is a real turn-off
3. The fact that God doesn't say much about equality and true justice...but in fact sets the human race up for being against each other.
4. Then there is the way people who worship him behave in today's world...judgmental, erratic, hypocrites, murderers...you name it.
So if the bible and other books are true...than that is just too sad.
2007-09-22 05:37:15 · answer #2 · answered by suigeneris-impetus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not "being turned off", it's that there is no evidence for god or that religion is a valid belief system. Many of us, me included, grew up in the church and after examining the evidence have concluded that god doesn't exist - there simple is no evidence for either him or the bible. This is not bitterness, it is reality.
On the other hand, there are two things that I really don't like:
1. Christian seem to think that legislating their morality is an acceptable practice; it is not and it is not wanted or needed.
2. There is no reason to damage our children's minds by teaching them that Creationist "pseudo-science" is an acceptable way of seeking knowledge. The point being that creationist claims, god aside, are so far away from fact and so based on fallacies that they should be considered lies. Note this is not directed towards god, but statements like the earth is less than 10k years old.
Edit:
What happened in my life? People that are in love can not get legal married due to your beliefs. People that should be safe during a medical procedure either have to cross a picket line or have it in a seedy, unsanitary office. People honestly think that "Science" is similar to "faith" in that it is something based on belief and not on facts and evidence. This is what happened.
2007-09-22 05:38:41 · answer #3 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not bitter toward God! I just resent the fundies, and some mainline christians trying to push their agenda on everyone else!The whole world would be better off if people did not do this!
Right now, this country is in the trouble it is in, because fundies have pushed their way into politics, and thus, their agenda onto the whole country! I firmly believe in separation of church and state!
Another reason is, that many of these people have attacked my religion, LDS, to the point that I don't give a good rip, one way or another what they think, about anything! You can not beat someone over, and over again, without the victim rising up, and then slapping the crap out of the attacker!
I make no apologies for what I tell other christians when they attack my church! I think that they are cowards, when they slur my religion, without putting theirs on the line, too!
I could care less, if you think my church is a cult! What about what you believe?Just what is it that makes you think yours is any better? You never offer it up on display for examination! UNTIL YOU DO, JUST SHUT UP !
well,sweetie, you did ask if I was bitter! And I wasn't yelling at you, I was telling those other jerks off, and thanks for the soap box!!! love and kisses!
2007-09-22 05:45:43 · answer #4 · answered by cassandra 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am an atheist. I do not believe in any god(s). Why do you think that I could be bitter against something I do not believe to exist? That would be very irrational of me if I harbored any bitterness to a non-existent being. Or it would be very irrational of you to assume that I could.
I realized at a young age that there is no real (objective, verifiable, validatable) evidence to support the existence of any god. Given that realization, I stopped believing in such a god. No turn-off, no bitterness, and no god required.
2007-09-22 05:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by CC 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not a bitterness towards anything. No two minds think alike. Some people are rational thinkers and some lack this concept all together. If there is in fact a god he is the one that chose to make those of us that do not believe the way that we are. You believe in him good for you. I wish that I could but my mind and my heart won't allow that. Yours won't allow you not to.
2007-09-22 05:28:53 · answer #6 · answered by Vintage Glamour 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Free will. Christianity is a personal relationship with God, not a religion. I guess some people blame God for the mistakes some churches and religions have made. God is the same, God is loving. Who would not want this relationship if they thought that it is real?
2007-09-22 05:31:57 · answer #7 · answered by Isthatso 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are just seeing it is all. It has always been thus.
Some people need "God" to make sense of everything, others do not. Think about it for a minute, and you will realize that if YOU believe in "God", that has more to do with where and when you were born than in any underlying truth to the stories you were taught as a child!
2007-09-22 05:35:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am an atheist, ex-catholic, but am not bitter towards something I don't believe in.
I get annoyed when religion gets in the way of my life, or interferes in some way. If this didn't happen, I wouldn't have any problem with religion - each to their own.
2007-09-22 05:33:50 · answer #9 · answered by Grotty Bodkin is not dead!!! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that there are a lot of levels of ideology which make this happen. But I also think that one of the most prominent tactics of those who hate God is that of proof.
They attempt to prove that God is not God. They use the Bible and their own faulty logic in order to accomplish this. They use Atheists sites in order to find out what Atheists say, which is never favorable and rarely correct or studied, and then they run with the information to this place like they saw that the emperor had no clothes.
The truth is that Atheists hate God. It's their nature. Christians have that same nature in them it's what makes us so unsavable. But with the will of God and His Spirit, along with the Word of God, we Christians get a counter to the natural urgings of man, and our hatred of God is either subdued or begins to change towards God's will for us.
2007-09-22 05:33:47 · answer #10 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋