So just curious? Those who make fun of and put down Christians have no conscience about this?

Question

I mean it doesn't bother your conscience? I see statements like "Christians don't use their brains" and all kinds of things not that I care really .......it's just this putting down Christians.....is it to feed your own ego or what? I don't get it!
Have you who make fun of and "mock" Christians ever asked yourselves why you do this or if it's even the right thing to do?
Or not?

I don't try to legislate morality.
I was curious about conscience..........how many believe we should walk in love and respect toward others?

I notice many are avoiding the question.

I think it's pride and elite-ism. :)

Answer 1

Does it bother your conscience when you tell people who don't believe like you do that they are going to hell and suffer for all eternity?
Does it bother your conscience when people across the country are denied the right to live in a loving relationship because they are the same sex?
Try putting your own house in order first.

Answer 2

Why is it alright when Christians do this to others, but it's not alright when it's done to them?

*I'm not perfect, just forgiven" isn't Elitism? Come on... that's stating you know whether or not your God has forgiven anyone else when it's used against other people. Stating "well, you're not a Christian so you're going to hell" isn't elitism? It's the same thing! Talk about an EGO! To place yourself on equal footing with God (when the Bible doesn't say *If you are NOT a Christian, you are going to hell* nowhere in there does it state that)

If you can generalize, so can I.

I've seen plenty of Christians mock and make fun of Pagans because Christians claim they believe in "just Myths that don't really mean anything". So it's alright when Christians do this others but not when it's done to them? Please.

I get it... I understand it quite well. It IS Elitism to sit there and say it's not ok to do it to YOUR people but totally ignore when Christians do it to others. It's biased. Or will you now say "well those aren't True Christians" so that you can ignore when someone who claims to be a Christian does it to others.

You can't expect it to get any better when you refuse to clean up your own damn backyard.

Answer 3

Has it occurred to you that this is in fact how we feel about some Christians? We who are not Christians (I'm a Reform Jew) find many fundamentalists to be utterly ludicrous, and I for one am not going to try to be polite if I am pushed by them to accept some of the nonsense they believe. When they cross the boundaries of expressing their own beliefs to trying to force them down MY throat, I'll use whatever I need to. I prefer not to mock, but some beliefs that are based on nothing more than superstition are so ridiculous that only a truly rude response gets through.

Do I believe in being respectful? Absolutely. Do I believe in rolling over and playing dead to appease idiots? Not a chance. Look at the fool several answers below mine who says, "They have no conscience because they have no God." It's uncalled for, and it's untrue bullshit to say something like that, and no better than poking fun at Christians.

Believe what you like, leave the rest of us alone, and you're fine. Start to cross my path with the nonsense and attempt to force it on me (and do NOT tell me that it doesn't happen), and the gloves will come off.

Answer 4

Because I've been through the whole "Christian" thing, and tried and tried to be a good Christian--and finally had to admit to myself that the whole thing didn't make any sense whatsoever. Then, when I began to see the truth about Christianity, I started to realize what incredible lengths Christians are going to, just to delude themselves into believing this thing that couldn't possibly be true.

I simply want to be a voice of reason. I hate seeing people mislead into believing this huge ridiculous myth.

*EDIT* Just so you realize I'm not avoiding the answer, let me spell it out: I would be much MORE bothered by my conscience if I just sat around silently watching Christians indulge themselves in their false beliefs, all the while they are interfering with and even ruining other people's lives.

Answer 5

cchaos- the way you paint the picture does make it sound kind of silly. But I would paint the picture a little differently. My beliefs may not all be "mainstream" Christian beliefs, but I am most definitely Christian.

You say we "believe in a mystical being who has magic powers and sits on a cloud and has a fairy world where you go when you die, and everyone's happy!"

I say I believe in a real being who can perform miracles (things that seem miraculous to us) by using natural law that we don't yet understand. I don't believe He sits on a cloud, but that He reigns in heaven, which currently resides on another planet in the universe, as far as my understanding goes. I believe the after life will be not a fairy world, but it will actually be a place of further work and learning, where Jesus Christ has already organized missionary forces to help further spread his gospel. Yes, I believe there will continue to be differing beliefs and the same debates and people converting to other beliefs there in the after life just like there are here. Eventually everyone will have had the chance to accept or reject his gospel, having been taught it in it's fullness- at that point is when the final judgement will occur for each person, determining what degree of glory you will inherit. Very few will have the literal burning in hell that many think of. Jesus said there are many mansions - nearly all God's children will inherit a glorious place in heaven. How glorious depends on how faithfully we are willing to follow him.

You say "Then they have beautiful people with biiiiiig fairy wings that fly about!!"

It was revealed to a modern prophet that angels do not actually have wings, but they are in form like human beings, and are also the offspring of God as we are.

You say "And an evil goat-man who tortures you for following him."

I assume you're referring to Satan / Lucifer / the devil. In the premortal life, Satan was an angel who had authority and played a prominent role in the council in heaven. But when Father presented His plan to send us to earth to test us, Satan rebelled and drew away many followers after him. In my understanding, he's not a goat man but is in the same form as us as well, and seeks that all men will ultimately be miserable as he now is.

You say "Oh, oh! And we all have an invisible thing inside us that you can't touch or see or feel, but it is you!!"

Our spirits are intelligent, self existent, organized matter governed by eternal laws. All living things had a premortal spirit form before being created physically here on the earth. Latter day revelation declares that all spirit is matter, but it is more refined or pure than physical elements found here on the earth.

You say "And when you die, you come alive again!"

Yes, this is marvelous and true. Jesus Christ broke the bands of death, the only one capable of doing so. You would hopefully agree that achieving immortality could be a definite possibility, even for mankind to achieve on our own, if we all learned to cooperate well enough to let our species survive to the point of reaching that technology. But God being light years ahead of us has already achieved it for us, and we will all live again!

You say "And fairy-man likes us singing really mournfully in a boring old stone-building! And I can talk in his language! kjhsjkhfdjkfghdkjlghd"

I don't know what you're referring to by that.

Answer 6

I think many people get tired of seeing some pretty remedial (that's the most polite word I can think of) responses to thoughtful questions.

Also, we see nothing but the same straw-man arguments again and again on subjects where Christians have clearly no understanding of the subjects of which they speak (evolution, Pascal's wager, etc).

I myself have grown more and more sarcastic because after all the time I have spent on thoughtful, respectful responses, only to see 10+ thumbs-down (or even falsely reported); meanwhile 'best answer' goes to completely thoughtless answers that parrot what the asker wanted to hear.

Answer 7

i'm no longer certainly one of them. I desire making relaxing of Republicans. no longer all Christians are Republicans and not all atheists are liberal. you're no longer asserting something incorrect. you're making a good element, surely. I somewhat sympathize with atheists, yet I style of expertise like they're hypocrites for claiming that Christians are closed-minded while they are going on right here just to ridicule or criticize Christian ideals. i surely locate many flaws with Christianity and the Bible, yet I understand that i can't decide others, via fact that i've got not lived their lives. the two aspects do the comparable element. they're the two unaware of the different area's view factors and reasoning, yet they think of they are in a position to decide one yet another. i've got seen Christians do it, too, so do no longer think of i'm aiming completely on the atheists. it relatively is basically that the jerks of the atheists tend to take out their closed-mindedness on the internet the place via fact the jerks of the theists will take it out on secular governments. i discover no longer something incorrect with humor, although. I, myself, am to blame for a number of non secular jokes.

Answer 8

Believers, especially Christian believers, make themselves easy targets for mockery.
And, no, my conscience is not bothered by a little well-intentioned questioning of your beliefs. As for explicit mockery and just poking fun, I personally try to keep that to a minimum, unless the believer's statement is just too ridiculous. And that does happen. Good targets should ask why the "kick me" sign is on their backs. (But I do mean this gently).

Answer 9

Turn it around, and ask yourself a similar question.
Doesn't it bother your conscience to put down non-Christians? Making fun of or mocking them?
Do you ever stop and ask yourself why you do this, or if it's even the right thing to do?
Or not?

Answer 10

When you have mingled with the Christians and found them constantly putting down other Christians, especially other denominations, I assure you that one's conscience is not bothered when you give them a little of their own back.
Don't forget that most atheists are disillusioned Christians and know what the breed is like.