Can't we just respect each others differing religious beliefs?
2007-12-26 03:53:24 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
goinupru then by all means please get out of your burning house. Why stay in it?
2007-12-26 04:08:27 · update #1
shmurfee Don't you think Atheists get angry only when they are told they must believe in something they do not believe in or go to hell?
2007-12-26 04:12:16 · update #2
So many people believe that 'their way is the only way'. If you don't agree with them, there must be something wrong with you. It's also about control ~ you can't control people who don't share your opinions.
Personally, I'm quite happy to let everyone believe what they want to believe, and I will believe in what I believe in.
My only objection is when you get the rabid obsessives who try to force their beliefs on others, and get angry when you refuse to conform.
I'm probably not phrasing this well, but I'm not feeling at my best right now.
2007-12-26 05:23:35 · answer #1 · answered by Lady Silver Rose * Wolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it were as simple as say that I like something which you might not like then we possibly could just agree to disagree on THAT point and some people—I’m even tempted to say the majority—can and do tolerate religious diversity within their midst—so long as it doesn’t impact their belief system.
The real issue comes to a head-on collision in the area of religious competition for souls on the ministerial level and who you choose to associate with or avoid on the sole basis of religious belief.
There are gradients to such “avoidance” and by that I mean that it is more likely that a Baptist believing family will accept someone into their family, as in marriage for instance, if the different belief in question would be say a Lutheran than it would if they were a Wiccan or perhaps a Muslim for example.
Given that many beliefs admonish and some even prohibit such associations then it really becomes a matter that directly extends from their particular religion.
It is extremely difficult if not practically impossible to expect to be treated equally by any group which holds that if you don’t adhere to the tenets of their particular faith, that you are hell bound and a ¨doomed sinner unless you repent and convert¨ that you will ever be accepted on equal basis unless you meet their particular conditions.
People tend to either be pluralist or totalitarian in their belief systems and this applies to all religions.
It also depends on the driving force that holds believers in the faith so to speak. Most are driven by fear of being lost and the other side of fear is hate or contempt for those who think differently--even though they won’t admit it which leads to the yet other facet that holds people’s faith and that is DENIAL.
2007-12-26 12:17:30 · answer #2 · answered by Pi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure why so many are threatened by differences. For me the most valuable opportunity we have is to focus on how we can contribute, in a beneficial way, for the survival of those less fortunate. I care not what anyone else believes. I only am concerned if that belief structure supports the suppression of others.
2007-12-26 12:01:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because people are threatened by what they don't understand. I'm with you, why are atheists so angry?
I believe in the Father the son and the holy spirit.
If someone else does not. . .What is the big deal?
Why would they become angry with me? I don't hate or down them just because they DON'T believe in a higher spiritual power. I don't understand atheists. . ..but I don't rag on them for not believing.
2007-12-26 12:04:34 · answer #4 · answered by smurfee68 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people are very into chest thumping in this section. They get a natural high by name calling, belittling, ridiculing, and finger pointing. It's a prime place to observe childish behavior at every turn... as you will soon see from your question. Have a very happy and safe new year.
2007-12-26 11:58:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fear, ignorance, change... we are all believing in the same "God" so why all the right and wrong ways to worship and believe? I don't much mention my beliefs... I am scoffed at... ridiculed.... made to feel shame... why? Because I don't believe like this person? or that person? So I am wrong? How do we really know it's not the "others" who are wrong?
2007-12-26 11:58:24 · answer #6 · answered by Just Me 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's all about people having superiority complexes. They have a "you're-supposed-to-agree-with-me" attitude, which is really disgusting. If they resort to name-calling, verbal abuse, and insults, they are, most likely, insecure people who don't have a full grasp of their own faith tradition/belief system. There is no "Divine Order" or "Divine Sanction" for that kind of behavior.
2007-12-26 12:11:33 · answer #7 · answered by Shafeeqah 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People grow defensive when they are not certain they have strong arguments. They assume a stance of righteous indignation because to actually throw their beliefs out to be examined puts them open to the possibility that they are wrong. Nothing causes more fear than to begin to think that your reason for living is only a fantasy.
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2007-12-26 11:57:18 · answer #8 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Insecurity
Yes or at least find out what the others' beliefs actually are before attacking them
2007-12-26 11:56:33 · answer #9 · answered by James O 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, everyone feels that they're "right." So, they want to make others "right," too. Or, they find it "ignorant" of people of differing beliefs to claim that they are right.
In other cases, they simply want the power; the majority vote.
2007-12-26 11:56:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋