How do Christians negatively affect your life?

[ll74]

I will qualify my original response

There are Christians who have negatively impacted me personally.

One invited me to her church and I expressly told her that I would only attend her (Baptist) church if I wasn't going to be called out in any capacity at the proceedings.

It truly wasn't a huge deal overall, but I was called out during their proceedings.

It ruined our friendship. She lied to me and she knew she did at the time.

That is a person who did something that impacted me, not a religion

 

[RoryN]

Throughout my life I’ve known lots of kind, generous, hard working, highly successful people of faith. Churches bring people together and the major religions preach faith, hope and love. Many help the indigent through charity and volunteerism.

Thanks for your input, racist:

BabyBoomer50s being racist:

[Elizabeth Holms riots] Geez, the case hasn’t even gone to the jury and the rioters in CA are already looting the high end fashion stores. If the verdict goes the wrong way the streets of Walnut Creek, San Francisco, and LA could be filled with blondes in black turtlenecks. Not even going to guess how this would all go down if she were black.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/elizabeth-holmes-riots.1556275/

I notice you didn't deny your racism.

I stand by my posts.

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...-poles-at-white-house.1635778/#post-101160065

 

[Wilson23]

The most odious, objectionable thing about Christianity is that it places VALUE on FAITH. You just can't get more wrongheaded than that. Faith is a vice, not a virtue -- I am tempted to say a sin, because sloth is traditionally ranked as a sin and faith is a form of sloth -- it means giving up on any rigorous search for truth and just accepting what you're told.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Christians burned the library in alexandria, egypt, which held the existing knowledge, common and arcane.

And you couldn't return a book you checked out? Lol.

 

[ll74]

The most odious, objectionable thing about Christianity is that it places VALUE on FAITH. You just can't get more wrongheaded than that. Faith is a vice, not a virtue -- I am tempted to say a sin, because sloth is traditionally ranked as a sin and faith is a form of sloth -- it means giving up on any rigorous search for truth and just accepting what you're told.

Go away

 

[Wilson23]

And there's one more thing -- from "The Case Against Christianity" by Michael Martin
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Christianity
He addresses arguments of the form that we ought to believe in Christianity because it is good for us to do so. These can be seen as pragmatic or ethical arguments - or, as he puts the distinction, believing for beneficial rather than epistemic reasons. Examples of such arguments include Pascal's wager and William James' attempts to justify religious belief in pragmatic terms.
He argues that there is a strong presumption that we ought to believe for epistemic rather than beneficial reasons. At this juncture he invokes W. K. Clifford's arguments in his famous essay The Ethics of Belief that believing without sufficient evidence is morally wrong. Clifford advances a number of reasons for its alleged immorality. Martin adopts these reasons, but adds an additional element: in addition to its violation of our moral duties, Martin believes belief without evidence contradicts epistemological duties which exist independently from ethics.
Martin accepts that, hypothetically, there are situations in which belief without evidence may be justifiable. He gives the example of the nuclear terrorist who threatens to destroy New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, unless you convert to Christianity.[3] He argues that, under such an unlikely circumstance, the rational and moral approach is to at least try to believe in Christianity. However, given that these are very rare circumstances, his implication is that in more ordinary circumstances belief in Christianity without evidence is morally and epistemologically impermissible.

 

[Wilson23]

Christians burned the library in alexandria, egypt, which held the existing knowledge, common and arcane.

Well, that happened more than once, and the most destructive burning was probably Julius Caesar's.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

No they don't.

You arguably wouldn't have modern science if it wasn't for the Roman Catholic Church.....it certainly wouldn't be where or what it is today without them.

The same group that believes the universe was created by an invisible man in the sky?

 

[Wilson23]

In both scientific and philosophical terms, the existence of God can never be ruled out entirely. (God can never even be defined satisfactorily.) But nobody knows anything ABOUT God. Nobody knows what His word is. Nobody knows what his will is. Nobody knows if he hears or answers prayers. Nobody knows whether He cares if we capitalize his pronouns. A lot of people THINK they know, and sometimes they think it really hard -- but they don't.

 

[RoryN]

Then: Let's list the positive things Christians do to help mankind!

Now: How do Christians negatively affect your life?

Seems the bar has been lowered. Interesting.

 

[Wilson23]

The same group that believes the universe was created by an invisible man in the sky?

Well, it was . . .
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fun:Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

 

[HisArpy]

Christians burned the library in alexandria, egypt, which held the existing knowledge, common and arcane.

Fuckers also knock on my door on Saturdays.

 

[Chadrone]

The same group that believes the universe was created by an invisible man in the sky?

Yup. You should take a basic history class.

 

[Rightguide]

Christian conservatives are not good at choosing Presidents. In 1980 they abandoned the most sincerely Christian president we ever had and chose a product of Hollywood who rarely attended church.

In 2016 they reached even lower and choose a foul mouthed, dishonest, adulterous pagan.

But you voted for Barack "I'm A Racist" Obama and Bill "The Monica Maduro" Clinton.

 

[Wilson23]

Fuckers also knock on my door on Saturdays.

Well, those aren't Christians, they're Jehovah's Witnesses. Or maybe Mormons.

[ducks]

 

[RoryN]

But you voted for Barack "I'm A Racist" Obama and Bill "The Monica Maduro" Clinton.

...said the Deplorable.

 

[Rightguide]

Christians burned the library in alexandria, egypt, which held the existing knowledge, common and arcane.

That's probably not entirely true. It might have begun with Julius Caesar in 48 BC and finished by Theodosius I in 391 AD. I don't believe the stories about it being finished off by Muslims in 642 AD, but they most likely destroyed most of the Great Library of Córdoba, which was initially destroyed by Islamic fundamentalists in the late 10th century.

 

[Wilson23]

Even when they don't come knocking, they affect our lives by being annoying. It's difficult to see a moron on the street screaming "Sinner!" and not object to his existence.

 

[JohnEngelman]

But you voted for Barack "I'm A Racist" Obama and Bill "The Monica Maduro" Clinton.

You're right about me voting for Obama and Clinton. I am glad I did.

 

[Havanawang]

That's probably not entirely true. It might have begun with Julius Caesar in 48 BC and finished by Theodosius I in 391 AD. I don't believe the stories about it being finished off by Muslims in 642 AD, but they most likely destroyed most of the Great Library of Córdoba, which was initially destroyed by Islamic fundamentalists in the late 10th century.

Clickbot

 

[Wilson23]

Also, don't we all find Chick tracts or Campus Crusade for Christ shit annoying? In a way a political pamphlet wouldn't be?

 

[Rightguide]

Clickbot

What the hell are you talking about?

Also, don't we all find Chick tracts or Campus Crusade for Christ shit annoying? In a way a political pamphlet wouldn't be?

It's all about living in a free society.

 

[Wilson23]

What the hell are you talking about?

It's all about living in a free society.

But a significant psychological fact nevertheless.

 

[Chadrone]

Well, those aren't Christians, they're Jehovah's Witnesses. Or maybe Mormons.

[ducks]

True....both groups are total heretics.

 

[Lazaran]

By inserting their delusional beliefs and edicts from an invisible man in the sky into society & governance.

The same as Muslims, etc.



We. Told. Them. So.