Are Christians really as bad as you say?

Question

From the questions and answers the atheists provide it seems that they are barraged with Christians. They always say how we are always trying to convert them and that they always have us coming to to their door again trying to convert them. But in all my life the only people who have come to my door trying to convert me were mormons. And on answers I have seen only a couple people doing this. Honestly if this is all they use as leverage than thank you atheists for making my faith stronger :)

By the way I am Christian myself

Answer 1

Some are.

So are some atheists.

Some pagans.

Some agnostics.

Some Catholics.

Answer 2

Samuel Crow - I beg to differ. The Atheist (that is why I use the caps) are a faith based group of people. Lets examine what they have faith in.

They have faith that the universe came into being by all matter and enegy being compressed into a pinpoint of space and time and that it for no apparent reason blew up and scattered its self in micro seconds across the expance of space and became huge starts and planets all revolving around it own centers and well maybe the spec of space from which it all came. Of course there is no proof of this but they will tell you it is so just the same.

They have faith that this planet is a cosmic accident of swirling space dust that for some reason that defies logic had enough mass to have gravity and it all pulled together and formed a perfect world ready for life. This is part of the newest part of their belief system because after all globel warming is bad and is man made so it had to be exactly how it was 60 years ago. This also is unprovable but they will defend this belief to the end.

They also believe that Iife just kind of happened in the soup that was on the earth. I don't know a lighting bolt or something mutated and amino acid. Of course once again there is no proof only conjecture.

These geniuses believe that all live evolved from this mutated amino acid and that eventually according to these self proclaimed superior intellects to an ape like being and from and ape like being to man. In other words men came from apes and they will deny that part but an ape like being is well... an ape. This they have no proof of either and yet they will believe it and call you stupid if you don't

All of the above are not even theories they are hypothosis. It is the equivlant of believing the earth is flat because you can't see the curve of the earth. It is by faith they believe these things.

Therefore since they believe that we are some horrific (because mankind is responsible for all the evil things in the world like global warming) accident they actually have more fath than those that believe that a creator created the universe as it is and made the animals after their kind and that they made man after the God kind.

Which really when you boil it down is easier to believe?

Trust me Samuel theses kooks are a relgion.

Answer 3

Some Christians can be pretty rude/mean (personal experience). They can also be really nice. It really all depends on the person. And for the converting thing, I've only seen Jehovah Witnesses and Mormons trying this (not that it's a bad thing, they can try to convert people all they want, this is America, freedom of speech and freedom of religion). And I'm not trying to pick on anyone so hopefully this answer wasn't rude. If anyone is wondering what religion I belong to, I'm a Christian but it shouldn't have anything to do with what anyone thinks of my answer.

Answer 4

It is not the religion as a whole that is evil but the select few that makes up the majority of the religion that is the problem you cannot use one group of people even if it is the majority to define the whole thing some of them honestly are good people but what you don't understand is that they may not go door to door asking people or demanding that people convert but in their teachings and the message they send out that pushes people to convert.

Answer 5

I'm a Christian too. I do not hate atheists, gay people, or pagans. I do not have anything against them. The ones who have given Christianity a bad name is the fundamentalists. Many non-Christians now think that all of us Christians think and act the same. We are people and we might disagree on issues. We do not march in lockstep with each other. I do not argue with atheists or proselytize. I dislike those who do those things. It doesn't make their religion look any better, we should concentrate on just living our lives to the best of our abilities.

Answer 6

No and sort of. I'm not constantly barraged with attempts at conversion. On the other hand, yes they are, many Xians are still trying to legislate their form of morality and are still trying to get "pseudo science" myths taught as science.

BTW, if ID was in any way a creditable hypothesis, it would be worth teaching, as it is, it is only good as an illustration of how science should not be done.

Answer 7

Lets be truthful about Christians. They are like any other group or organization. They are like any other profession. There are Good and Bad associated with all of them. The problem is the Bad almost always gets the publicity. For this cause others have reasons to argue.

Answer 8

The only people who come to my door are Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.
I live in southeast GA, the Bible Belt, and no one has EVER accosted me at the mall, in a parking lot, in a restaurant, the grocery store, or anywhere else.

You would think that we chase people down streets, waving a Bible in our hands. That is just not so.

At least I have never seen this, and no Christian that I know ever stops people in any store, etc. to ask them about their religion.

Answer 9

Christians that have to tell you that they are Christians are the ones to watch out for. People who aren't always telling you are Great people with morals and faith. The others are the scum of the earth and are masquerading under the assumption that you willbelieve them. Thats when they get into your wallet. And they want in your wallet . Watch the TV preachers. crooks?

Answer 10

You don't realize it also depends on where a person lives? The door to door bit alone...some areas get more of it than others. How lucky you are than to get so few. Mormons are still Christianity based, so yes to us it's still a type of Christians when it's them too.

Answer 11

C wrote:
Atheists do not go door to door because their Religion (Evolution) is taught in public schools with our tax dollars. They do not need collection plates as they used forced tax dollars to pay for it.

Sorry C ... let us take a walk back into recent history:

In 100% of the cases where the christians attempted to force their BELIEFS into public schools regarding THEIR belief based form of the development of life (called creationism), the poor ignorant christians lost. Most recently, look at Dover, Pennsylvania ... or Kansas ... OR, how about the Scopes/Monkey trial? You lose, christian C on EVERY ACCOUNT!

Man, that must hurt.

Just keep in mind that creationism is a explanation looking for evidence where evolution is evidence looking for explanation.

A few minutes later:

For those of you who don't realize that you're being accosted on every side by evangelical christians, don't forget that our jerk of a president and his ilk have imposed their christian religion on the decisions they've made. The Texan idiot came back to D.C. to affect a law about Terri Schiavo ... the former Attorney General had the breasts of a statue covered because the statue offended his christian beliefs ... one of the reasons we are in a war in Iraq is because of the bush cabal's belief in the future of christianity so people are DYING and this is all being imposed upon you.

They don't have to come to your door to be annoying.