Has anybody here been turned away from religion by Yahoo Answer?

Question

I have recently read many ignorant answers from Christians (but not all) and have been a little bit disgusted, that does not mean there are not pearls among them, some are sincere and logical. And i am not talking about them, what i am talking about are the fanatics who use no rationale and make me question my faith and my own viewpoints. There are also athiests that are the same but they seem to me not trying to argue for athiesim rather for themselves, if that makes sense.Just asking other Christians if they have been upset of sharing a religion that promotes peace with people that use it to insult atheists

Answer 1

I sure hope so.

Personally, I was deconverted long before Yahoo Answers. I've been an atheist for over 20 years. Though, part of my deconversion was because of forums like these. In my time, these forums were bulletin board systems that hosted, among other things, religious discussion groups. I've also read the Bible and talked to many Christians and people of other religions.

As I learned more about the basis for religions such as Christianity, I became less and less convinced that any gods exist. My answers here, represent a culmination of years of such discussions, and they really haven't changed much. Therefore, I have to assume that some people are being deconverted, also.

Recently, there was a CS Lewis function that some friends of mine attended called "Answering Today's Atheists". Such a conference wouldn't have been held if we weren't having some affect on the Christians. It was apparent, from the event, that Christians are concerned that the atheists are putting forth arguments that are swaying a significant number of their members.

Answer 2

yes I was. I had a nice religion, and a lot of faith. But there are christians on this site, who once they have decided a religion is a cult, attack relentlessly.
Give me ethics, and logic, and The Golden Rule any day of the week.
The christian brigade can keep their ''good news'' to themselves. Been there and done that, and AINT going back.
And my former religion; Mormonism. Members of that church are more Christlike, than any of those that say they are not even Christians. You want to see a good Christian, then you look for a good Mormon.

Answer 3

i moved into a strong agnostic position in my late teens, and stayed there until a few years ago.

i thought god very unlikely, and probably irrelevant, but i never entirely discounted his possibility and i considered most christians mistaken rather than corrupt.

over the last five or so years the christians i have met over the internet (including here) have convinced me that most christians are in fact deeply corrupt and self-seeking people, and that the true face of religion is much more bernard of clairvaux (who wrote enthusiastically of the delights of contemplating the torments of the damned) than peter abelard (who was excommunicated for teaching that the souls of unbaptised infants were not in hell).

so my faith has not been changed by my experiences on y!a *(and places like it), but my attitude toward other people's faith has.

Answer 4

What makes you think of faith impeded the progression of technological information for hundreds of years? maximum all the Founders of recent technological information, inclusive of Beaverbrook, Kepler, Galileo, Pascal, Boyle, Dalton, Linnaeus, Mendel, Maxwell, Kelvin, Newton (or maybe Einstein by ability of a few debts) all believed in a God who created a universe of order, a universe that now operates decrease than organic regulations or approaches, and that perception led them to objective and are available across and comprehend those regulations and approaches. So faith became not often a burden on progression, quite it became the muse to progression and discovery by using fact it proposed an ordered Universe whose regulations might desire to be got here across and understood quite than a chaotic universe the place issues merely exceeded off by ability of random undirected injuries.

Answer 5

Yep.

PS - Religion is NOT faith. Two different things. One can have faith without religion: It's called Spirituality.

Religion = an institution
Spirituality = an experience

Answer 6

No, I lived it. Church was NOT the place for me when I had one Pastor try to scam on me and the other bought a new Camaro with the money I did not have and last but not least had one tell me I could no longer wear a dress and if I did not speak in tongues, I would burn in hell and not allowed in God;s church.....that really did it for me. Now I have been set free form the expectations of others.

Answer 7

There has to be.

YA helped be move from agnosticism to Atheism, and the fervent Christians did their part in helping that transition. Every time I started thinking Pascally I would read a vitriolic answer and think to myself, that's what I have to lose.

Answer 8

If anybody has been turned from their faith based on R&S, then their faith wasn't strong enough to hold out during a high school debate on the subject.

Faith is faith - you believe or you don't. My faith tells me that everything put in front of me to date is wrong - including atheism. That doesn't mean that I'm right - it doesn't mean that I'm lost. I means that, in my case, I have no faith in men.

Nobody on here though has influenced me one way or the other. They couldn't - I have no faith in *them* :)

Answer 9

No, different Christians are at different levels in their walk with God. Some are babies, and some are mature. It is probably a good thing, if those of us who are strong, support and teach those of us who are still in the early stages. You can't turn away from God, from Jesus, because of other people. After you get to know Jesus, you realize there is no running away - you can't deny his love, wisdom and power - you can't deny his friendship. Peace.

Answer 10

There will always be clowns in every crowd.