Why do people hate Christianity?

[erowe1]

Well, it must matter if "God" is referenced as "Him". A physical being.

What do you mean by this?

 

[Natural Citizen]

Why ask people's opinions as to why Christians are hated. It's right there in the Bible. Once again, God has done your thinking for you.

You're welcome.

Well...I find it helpful to place into function useful tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments. As it applies here, I referenced a couple in the rather long and useful list that applies universally so I figgered why not just ask. You know?

When I read the Bible, I translate much of it differently than what I read from Christians. But that's me. To be fair, I'm actually looking to translate and perceive it differently or how I'd like to comprehend it much like Christians do the same.

-Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
-If there is a chain of argument every link in the chain must work.

Common fallacies of logic and rhetoric that help to gather point of substance...

- Check for confounding factors - separate the variables.
- Special pleading (typically referring to god's will).

.....- Begging the question (assuming an answer in the way the question is phrased). - compareable to you're first sentence. Do you see how you just defaulted to the thread's question?


I'm not a Christian. So...as to not appear disrespectful, I asked in a way in which I thought I'd get a practical answer because, as I said, I was curious. I don't find blind faith useful so I asked the best way I thought it to be practical.


Regardless of all of that, I've lost interest in it since I asked. Was one of those spur of the moment questions I encountered when reading through some of the comments in the thread...and then that baby thread. Jiminy crickets. That's a whopper. I do wonder about the Christian mindset moreso than Christianity itself. Contemporary mindset, that is...

 

[Natural Citizen]

What do you mean by this?

Depends upon who is asking or how it's asked now that SA threw a monkey wrench into it. Don't really feel like scribbling a few paragraphs though. So...what do you mean, "What do I mean?"

 

[erowe1]

Depends upon who is asking or how it's asked now that SA threw a monkey wrench into it. Don't really feel like scribbling a few paragraphs though. So...what do you mean, "What do I mean?"

It seems like you're saying that if someone uses the pronoun "him" for God, that they must believe he is a physical being. But that seems like a strange conclusion to draw. So I thought I might have misunderstood you.

 

[FreeHampshire]

I think the "calvinists think babies go to Hell" thread will answer the question in the title.

 

[Sola_Fide]

Christianity at its core is a rejection of life.

A rejection of this life, yes, but an embrace of what is truly life.

At it's basics, it teaches you to hate this life,

Yes, because the love of this world ends in eternal death.

hate your natural instincts,

Yes, because we are by nature evil, and evil is contrary to the holiness of God.

hate this imperfect world

Yes, because this world is going to pass away and in the last day we must all give an account to the Lord (and if you do not have a perfect righteousness, you will go to Hell eternally).

and long to be dead so that you can go to an unseen paradise.

Yes. And I pray that God makes me hate this world, and love my heavenly inheritance all the more.

It teaches you that you are born imperfect and into sin.

Yes.

And solely based on the whim of an unseen God can he choose to grant you grace from your sin.

On a whim? No. Election is based on God's unchanging, universal, and eternal council, not a whim.

It teaches you to be a sheep and not question authority.

No. Maybe in the false Roman Catholic religion they teach that, but the Bible doesn't teach that and Christianity doesn't teach that.

It teaches you that everything you need to know is contained in a magic book.

Everything that is needed for life and knowledge is either expressely laid out in Scripture, or is by good and necessary consequence deduced from Scripture. "Magic" is just name-calling.

I simply cannot fathom why people are attracted to this religion.

People are "attracted" to God because He chooses to reveal himself to them. The reason that you and the rest of the world is not attracted to the Lord and to His free gift of imputed righteousness is that God has not revealed Himself to you, and may never do it. Just be sure of one thing: God is in complete control of everything, including your unbelief. The only way you will believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is if the Father wants you to.

But I guess that's what 2000 years of brainwashing, witch-trials, inquisitions, and state control, can do to people. I view Christianity the same way that Constantine viewed it, as a way to control the masses.

So you are just reacting against Roman Catholicism, not Christianity. The Roman Catholic church has massacred millions people, most notably TRUE CHRISTIANS, for centuries. Roman Catholicism is not Christianity, and mixing religion with the state is not a Christian idea. If you are going to react against "Christianity", at least realize what is Christianity and what is not.

 

[AgentforPathfinder]

Crypto-Bolsheviks. Religion is the opiate of the masses.

 

[faithfulfriend]

Because most Christians are hypocrites and love bombing brown people.

I call them professed Christians. Most people who claim to be Christian simply aren't.

 

[BlackTerrel]

Because most Christians are hypocrites and love bombing brown people.

Collectivism is wrong... but cool when done regarding Christians.

 

[TER]

People hate Christianity for the same reasons they hate other things, because it interferes in their habitual sinning and the things they do. Some especially hate it because they have realized that there is no conquering over Christ on the Cross. For He conquered all of death by His own death on the Cross.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Crypto-Bolsheviks. Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Probably the most taken out of context Marx quote evarrrr.

 

[fr33]

I try not to look at this topic when it shows up in my subscription even though I was quite militant in it initially. The Ron Paul revolution introduced me to christians that weren't hypocrites; unlike almost every christian that I know. I really don't want to piss off friends that respect my freedom.

You do have to admit it's odd though that many Christians in the liberty movement are willing to say something like 90% of those that claim to be christian, actually aren't christian. You have to wonder what enabled them to lapse.

 

[Petar]

 

[Ivash]

It's not so much the Christianity as it is some of their followers.

This is a big part of the truth.

 

[1stAmendguy]

The power of God is the worship it inspires.

 

[HigherVision]

How can you look at a baby and think he/she is an evil sinner that needs to be 'saved'? Sorry but the baby is perfect, it's you who's messed up. And if it's a boy leave his prepuce/foreskin alone.

 

[HigherVision]

Everything that is needed for life and knowledge is either expressely laid out in Scripture, or is by good and necessary consequence deduced from Scripture. "Magic" is just name-calling.

Right along with the talking snakes and virgin births and loving god who likes to kill everyone.

 

[TER]

Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us.

 

[Ender]

I am a Christian minister under a Vow of Poverty. I take my duties very seriously- which is to help those around me.

Many Christians have interpreted the scriptures to mean something other than what was originally meant- then use it as an excuse to hate. But then, apparently non-Christians also look for reasons to hate or this thread would never have started.

 

[Natural Citizen]

But then, apparently non-Christians also look for reasons to hate or this thread would never have started.

Could be said that such discussion is usually started in an effort to simply beg the question when folks otherwise just don't seem to care about it. That's where I'm leaning.