Why Are People So Critical About Christian Beliefs

[DaWoad]

I, for one, do not welcome our new hive mind overlords! Vive la resistance and such.

You need to play more Starcraft.
Serve the Hive. I control the groove.

heh true, I doooo need to play more SC, that said 'toss for the win!

[The USOT]

Its not Christianity as a whole, I mean few people who complain at the fundamentals of peace, love and self sacrifice that its meant to be about, but its the extreme fundamentalist and hipocritical elements that some versions or people who follow it adhere to which is the annoying part.

E.g.
Catholacism: I have no problem with individual Catholics (indeed one of my closes freinds is one) but my problem with it is that it seems to be treated more often like a business than a faith, that it is an extremely money hoarding and right wing insitutution (debatable morality wise, but seems extremely hipocritical considering that Jesus complained on more than 1 occasion that Rich people should give all their money away and wouldnt get into heaven otherwise, which is very left wing...) and the attitude that many have where they can do w.e. they feel like as long as they ask for forgiveness later.

[Dyakovo]

Actually some christians do believe all the stuff Maurepas listed...

We call them "nuts".

Indeed

[Johz]

True, but then there are portions of some countries where a women can get beaten if she doesn't go out without a veil on. It still doesn't mean all Muslims are as bad as them. Just give the rest of us a chance, please?

I have a few Christian friends. People who don't think atheists are evil. Though one of them says she sad I won't be in heaven when she gets there. I just don't see how someone otherwise sensible person can put faith in a being that punishes people for disbelief. Just a thought, but if I were a supreme being I'd judge people on how they treated their fellow beings, not whether or not the believe I exsist.

Meh. Universalism says everyone's going to heaven anyway. I'm terrible at evangelism, I just don't understand why God would want me to force my beliefs on other people. So I just don't worry about the whole thing. I reckon no-one's going to get 'punished', as it were.

[Ramalet]

Not believing in any typical vision of a deity, if any at all, tends to make one fairly critical of religious beliefs.

[Niene]

It seems to me that people are just extremely critical of Christian beliefs. Its not just people disagree and move on they have to comment and mock it and I just want to know why. I've never done that to anyone else's beliefs so why would people do it to me.

Simple.

Christians are critical of other beliefs.
Christians don't simply "move on" with disagreements.
Christians comment and mock things.

Jack asses exist in everything. You can't take them personal and understand they exist in your Religion.

As long as you aren't trying to impose your belief system on others, most people don't care you are a Christian.

I am a Christian Catholic, and I am proud to say:

I am not critical of other beliefs.
I do "move on" when arguing is useless.
I do not comment and mock things.

Good day!

[New Unsociety]

For the same reasons-if you exclude the "smelly muslim" part-they criticize islam

Brutality in practice,even though preaching peace and understanding
Its clerics go against their very supposed beliefs and teachings
Money/power cult
Against women,gays etc
Crusades/Jihad
Inquisition/beheadings of "infidels"
Jews in Spain in the M Ages/Christians in S Arabia
against social progress and science
an excuse to divide the oppressed classes of the world against each other,to the benefit of the oppressors

Too bad most who criticize one of these religions usually tend to defend the other...
and remember,it's not the BELIEVER who is to blame,but the (higher echelons of) clerics/imams who brainwash them,who are btw in the oppressor class

[Gaiso]

Everything is worthy of criticism. And everything is worthy of making jokes of. Nothing is sacred.

[Niene]

Everything is worthy of criticism. And everything is worthy of making jokes of. Nothing is sacred.

It's not criticism or jokes that are hurtful (usually). It's outright mockery and insults I can't stand.

[Johz]

Christians believe in a violent, backstabbing and lying god.

Au contraire, Christians believe in a loving, omnobenevolent, truthful God. In what places in the Bible does God lie, for goodness sake?

They have an unatural aversion to gays and non-believers

The do not agree with homosexual intercourse, mainly because, currently, gay people cannot be 'married'. However, being gay is not a problem. It's just another sign of a broken world.

and their biggotry and ignorance in unmatched.

I could show you pictures of famous atheists, including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who can certainly match a good bit of Christian biggotry, and we've spen millenia institutionalising it. Equally, to call Christians 'ignorant' is to call a number of highly respected scientists across the globe ignorant. Which is patently rediculous...

I hate religion

As a Christian, I can certainly empathise. Organised religion is it's own bane. However, unnecessary bullshit based on the actions of a select few Christians is not going to make my opinion of Atheists shoot up...

[-St George]

Christians believe in a violent, backstabbing and lying god.

They have an unatural aversion to gays and non-believers and their biggotry and ignorance in unmatched.

I hate religion

Wrong, so far as the actual words of Christ/God go.

[Wamitoria]

Everything is worthy of criticism. And everything is worthy of making jokes of. Nothing is sacred.

It's not criticism or jokes that are hurtful (usually). It's outright mockery and insults I can't stand.

How many people openly mock you for being Christian?

[Niene]

Christians believe in a violent, backstabbing and lying god.

Au contraire, Christians believe in a loving, omnobenevolent, truthful God. In what places in the Bible does God lie, for goodness sake?

They have an unatural aversion to gays and non-believers

The do not agree with homosexual intercourse, mainly because, currently, gay people cannot be 'married'. However, being gay is not a problem. It's just another sign of a broken world.

and their biggotry and ignorance in unmatched.

I could show you pictures of famous atheists, including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who can certainly match a good bit of Christian biggotry, and we've spen millenia institutionalising it. Equally, to call Christians 'ignorant' is to call a number of highly respected scientists across the globe ignorant. Which is patently rediculous...

I hate religion

As a Christian, I can certainly empathise. Organised religion is it's own bane. However, unnecessary bullshit based on the actions of a select few Christians is not going to make my opinion of Atheists shoot up...

+984.

[Niene]

It's not criticism or jokes that are hurtful (usually). It's outright mockery and insults I can't stand.

How many people openly mock you for being Christian?

They don't actually do it. But reading some of the comments here, you'd think mocking and insulting religion is justified.

[Wamitoria]

How many people openly mock you for being Christian?

They don't actually do it. But reading some of the comments here, you'd think mocking and insulting religion is justified.

You were just introduced to trolling, I assume.

However, recognize that most people on here only mock "fundies" or fundamentalist/hyper-evangelical Christians.

[Johz]

Au contraire, Christians believe in a loving, omnobenevolent, truthful God. In what places in the Bible does God lie, for goodness sake?


The do not agree with homosexual intercourse, mainly because, currently, gay people cannot be 'married'. However, being gay is not a problem. It's just another sign of a broken world.


I could show you pictures of famous atheists, including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, who can certainly match a good bit of Christian biggotry, and we've spen millenia institutionalising it. Equally, to call Christians 'ignorant' is to call a number of highly respected scientists across the globe ignorant. Which is patently rediculous...


As a Christian, I can certainly empathise. Organised religion is it's own bane. However, unnecessary bullshit based on the actions of a select few Christians is not going to make my opinion of Atheists shoot up...

+984.

Hey, what happened to the other 16? I'm offended...

[Gaiso]

They don't actually do it. But reading some of the comments here, you'd think mocking and insulting religion is justified.

You were just introduced to trolling, I assume.

However, recognize that most people on here only mock "fundies" or fundamentalist/hyper-evangelical Christians.

Yep. This is why I think Dawkins, Maher, and the like are necessary douchebags. They have never said anything too bad about moderate religious beliefs, but they go all super badass on fundamentalism.

See Maher's movie "Religulous"

[Unchecked Expansion]

They have an unatural aversion to gays and non-believers

The do not agree with homosexual intercourse, mainly because, currently, gay people cannot be 'married'. However, being gay is not a problem. It's just another sign of a broken world.

A broken world kind of undermines perfect creator. If we were made in gods image, gods image is a little bit gay

[Niene]

They don't actually do it. But reading some of the comments here, you'd think mocking and insulting religion is justified.

You were just introduced to trolling, I assume.

However, recognize that most people on here only mock "fundies" or fundamentalist/hyper-evangelical Christians.

Indeed, just introduced.
I was unfamiliar with the term "fundies" , and seeing as it sounds like "undies", my reaction to this phrase is

[-St George]

The do not agree with homosexual intercourse, mainly because, currently, gay people cannot be 'married'. However, being gay is not a problem. It's just another sign of a broken world.

A broken world kind of undermines perfect creator. If we were made in gods image, gods image is a little bit gay

The male prostrate does seem to be 'designed' for internal stimulation...

[Niene]

+984.

Hey, what happened to the other 16? I'm offended...

They were asleep, and just woke up, so +1000.

[Bottle]

Everything is worthy of criticism. And everything is worthy of making jokes of. Nothing is sacred.

It's not criticism or jokes that are hurtful (usually). It's outright mockery and insults I can't stand.

As a queer atheist woman, may I just say:

Suck it up.

[Niene]

A broken world kind of undermines perfect creator. If we were made in gods image, gods image is a little bit gay

The male prostrate does seem to be 'designed' for internal stimulation...

Without further ado:

[Upper North Yorkshire]

How many people openly mock you for being Christian?

They don't actually do it. But reading some of the comments here, you'd think mocking and insulting religion is justified.

its not necessarily justified but there is a ridiculous idea some religious folk have that because they are 'religious beliefs' they cannot be attacked and are somehow above being questioned.

its a form of control, dont get so upset when we tell you that! i think its fine when people question my socialist arguments because it makes me think critically and have to provide evidence for my beliefs, which is a positive thing. i get called all sorts of names and have the piss ripped out of me all the time for being a 'bolshevik bastard', why is that different from abusing religious people?

give me some evidence (i.e. not a childrens novel) that j-dizzle walked on water, turned water to wine, fed a bunch of people with a tuna sandwich, and i wont take the piss that out of the fact you believe it

[Unchecked Expansion]

The male prostrate does seem to be 'designed' for internal stimulation...

Without further ad:

Well, it is.