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I havn't ever met an honest atheist.
um why are you here on a Christian Forum.
Why don't you go away and leave us alone?
Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Never ceases to amaze that someone would go to a site and complain like this, it's like me going to an atheist forum and whinge, whine and complain about how I used to be an atheist and how wrong they were. Get a life.
My religion falls under the larger unmbrella of Judaism. Technically, I am a Noahide which is the gentile branch. The way it works is Noahides are the 'congregation' and Jews are the 'priests.'
Have you ever heard of the "no true Scotsman" argument?
You could say I belong to the world's oldest and largest cult.
Bravo! I had some pretty bad experiences in churches when I used to be a Christian. I met a few genuinely nice Christians, but sadly the majority were quite unpleasant people. Having a deity love you must be the ultimate ego trip, which is probably why Christianity is so appealing to some people. God loves YOU! - now go and act like a jerk to everyone and say you're sorry at night and everything will be fine again - repeat until death.
Also, the fact that many Christians are hoping for the end of the world (notably some American Presidential Candidates share this hope) makes them somewhat fatalistic and lacking in real compassion. Check out the Rapture Ready forums sometime - these people literally get excited about earthquakes, famines, disease and any other bad news because they think their rapture is close. Ironically, these same people laugh at the likes of Harold Camping for simply putting a date to this rapture nonsense.
Have you ever heard of the "no true Scotsman" argument?
I am referring more to the efforts of Christian to spread the faith in real life. Where I live, people still go door to door, telling people about Jesus. I still get post cards advertising seminars and whatnot from my old church that I went to growing up but haven't attended since '97 despite that I have long since asked them to take me off their mailing list.
Also, I'm trying to draw attention to the FACT that you don't have each others backs, you don't take proper care of each other and you will let each other starve.[/SIZE]
The insane ones have a tendency to group together and if you happen to walk into one of these kinds of churches (they do exist. I grew up in one) a person has the tendency to think that all Christians are this way.
Stop trying to sell me a faith that doesn't work and start working on learning how to live a faith that does.
My religion falls under the larger unmbrella of Judaism. Technically, I am a Noahide which is the gentile branch. The way it works is Noahides are the 'congregation' and Jews are the 'priests.'
What, exactly is your good news? Considering the way that Christians treat each other I'm not the least bit convinced you have any. It's been my experience that even atheists treat people with more compassion and empathy than many Christians.
You are unfamiliar with the Gospel? Should we really judge things by experience alone? My experience has not been the same as yours. Not by a long shot.
By and large Jews have been more resistent to conversion to Christianity than any other group because they already have a better deal going. A Jew would have to be absolutely insane to go from being treated like a Jew (or Noahide) by other Jews to being treated like a Christian by other Christians.
This is a most ludicrous thing to say. Please explain.
Uh, no! If one functional individual joins a group of disfunctional people, what usually happens is that person quickly becomes disfunctional themselves. Anytime you have a group of disfunctional people, it's always best to split up the individuals and put each one with a group of people that are functional.
And how do you know this? This is the problem with mankind, when things break, they would rather it aside and seek a replacement. They never want to fix that which is broken. God wants to fix those broken things for us, and make them new again.
Sorry you ran into christians who try to force it on you-they shouldn't have. Many christians are CINO's-please don't confuse christians in name only with real ones.
Beautiful Ignorance: So if I've got this right, you dislike Christians because in your experience, they all acted as though they were so much better than you.
You then write a post saying you and your religion are so much better than Christianity ...
That would be either shamanism, which may not exactly count, so you follow some Neolithic Great Goddess cult? That would be the oldest.
The largest is Christianity, so I don't really understand where you are coming from here.
Are you sure that this past animosity towards the Christians has not impacted your ability to reason objectively? I'm not putting you on the spot but that may be something to ponder. It may be true that the majority are Christian-in-name-only but it seems strange to me how so many opponents of the faith mention these "bad Christians" at the drop of a hat.
The above highlighted statement is just inane and a generalisation.
There are 3+million people dying or dead of starvation in Africa over the past 2years. it is the Christian/Muslim organisations who were there from the beginning. Only later did UN/other government agencies arrive.
Let's see about the word FACT you used.
Can you provide the source/evidence of the worldwide research which shows overwhelmingly that Christians:
a) Don't care for each other
b) Don't have each others backs
c) Let each other starve
Otherwise it is just hot air.
If your opinions are based on your own experience then we can't very well take that as overwhelming evidence now can we? Anecdotes while interesting are not reliable evidence. You cannot extrapolate isolated incidents into a worldwide phenomena.
It is unfortunate that you keep getting harassed, I also get regular visits from Mormons and JW's trying to 'convert' me. I entertain them with tea and biscuits anyway because that is what I believe a Christian should do.
I think they knew after a couple of visits that I am a hardcore Catholic and won't change but they continue coming, I think we became sorta friends, I especially felt sorry for the Mormons because they are American and had never left their country and are very young adults. Like that saying 'friends are just strangers you have not met yet'.
However I know that if I asked them to stop they would, my neighbour did and they stopped. If you have asked them to stop and they continue that sounds like a cult. You should call the police.
The majority of the worlds Christians are Catholic 1billion+ and we don't do door to door.
BTW you haven't answered my question 'why are you on here if you only have negative things to say about Christians?' Surely that would not be spiritually healthy for you.
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