i personally believe in god and jesus christ. no one can ever make me believe they dont exist. some one mentioned why god would ask abraham to kill his own son. they said god was not loving and caring to do that. but god also sent another sacrifice in his place for abraham. god was seeing how faithful and obidient abraham was. that is a loving god! why does every one try to take away the only good some people have by trying to convince them their is no god. be strong christians and god bless
2007-10-18 08:02:30 · 9 answers · asked by raceman 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
religion has nothing to do with believing. im not talking about religion here, you atheist are so narrow minded
2007-10-18 08:16:12 · update #1
as long as people are genuinely interested in becomming better people and being kind to one another, I have no problem with belief in a higher power. some would question my faith, but I actually believe in Christ myself, and study his teachings as they've been handed down to me from various sources. but I also consider the transmission of the written sources and look for the presence of Christ in the world around me, not just in a collection of books. as far as the story of Abraham, put yourself in that position. are you a parent? i think that that episode is an important one to think about because usually any story that evokes so many strong and conflicting responses from the reader must have something to impart to us. still as a parent, I don't think that I'd be so ready to kill my own child to prove my faith, and isn't this the same Abraham that bargained with God over the judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah?
2007-10-18 08:19:48 · answer #1 · answered by metanoia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no problem with anyone believing in any mythology. I only take an interest when their belief impacts my life, such as when people want to invoke the Christian God before a public high school graduation, or invoke the Christian God during the Pledge of Allegiance, or invoke the Christian God while shooting a doctor at a clinic, etc...
Believe what you like.
But allow me the same courtesy.
2007-10-18 15:07:07 · answer #2 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because what inevitably ends up happening, is...believers seek government validation/support of their belief system in the forms of laws/measures that all citizens of various belief systems, not all of them christian, must follow.
That's where the trouble starts...
For example....how many christian organizations this year, during the holiday season, do you think are going to attempt to put a nativity scene up on public property?
And how many of those same christians would be outraged if asked to take it down...or allow someone of a different belief system to erect a small token of their belief system along side the nativity scene???
Christians want to have their cake and eat it too....we can't allow that.
2007-10-18 15:08:10 · answer #3 · answered by Adam G 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really don't mind most Christians, I'm actually about to marry one.
However, believing in a higher power has stopped politicians from releasing a vaccine for HPV, which causes cervical cancer. Thousands of women die from cervical cancer every year, but because it is safer for people to have sex, the politician believes more people will engage in sex out of wedlock. He values the Bible more than human lives, and that is not right.
It can be dangerous for people to believe in a higher power. Crusades, Sept. 11, etc. You, believe whatever you want, but religion can be dangerous.
2007-10-18 15:08:28 · answer #4 · answered by Uh-oh 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If no one can convince you that Christ may not exist, you can't convince me the bloke exists either. That's beating a dead horse. Mountain Dew makes me happy. Being with my nephews makes me happy. I don't need some invisible deity for that purpose.
2007-10-18 15:12:30 · answer #5 · answered by Quonx. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's when those personal beliefs enter our schools, courts and government that the problems really start. Keep your god at home and at church and you'll hear less complaining.
2007-10-18 15:07:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Personally believing in fairies, leprechauns, gnomes, unicorns, and ghosts makes me happy too. Besides I happen to agree with Hayden Lyfe on this one.
2007-10-18 15:09:55 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it makes you happy to believe, then have at it... it's ok with me. The problem is when christians try to mandate their beliefs to non-believers... that, I'm not ok with...
Make you a deal... don't try to make believing mandatory, and I won't try to make atheism mandatory!
2007-10-18 15:06:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
because they vote for retards and picket funerals--My family might be a little upset when I die and fifteen fundummy ********* are there with signs saying "hell has him now"
2007-10-18 15:07:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋