Why do people debate Christianity so much?

Mrs Wolfie · Mayor's Aide Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 117

If the Christian faith is a false belief, why is it so widely debated? Why is the very name of Jesus so powerful that it can cause an absolute uproar when words like "Buddah" and "The Pope" cause nary a stir?

geline · Mayor's Aide Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 51

Being a Christian/Catholic, I couldn't understand why people don't believe and much worse, curse the name of Jesus in front of others when they themselves don't know the real things that happened in this world. Granting that we are not sure because all of us alive now were not really 'there' when Jesus was here, many people take the opportunity of making this a question and a big problem. They don't want to believe, then it is up to them, they must not dictate the minds of people and they must be polite to those who have different beliefs that theirs.

Mrs Wolfie · Mayor's Aide Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 117

Well put, Geline. And yes, you are correct- we were not "there". However, we have the text I believe to be the inspired word of God (the Bible) and more importantly, you have to have faith. When you start looking around at nature and the way things work, you understand none of this is chance and a masterful Creator had to be at hand. And then everything else, at least to me, falls into place..

alexis · Mayor's Aide Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 57

We should respect what everyone believes, right.

Theists or atheists, we are all human beings, isn't that much important than debating about things we are sure many won't agree?

Just talking about Jesus or Muhammad won't make us better human beings, we have to start acting and doing good things, simple beliefs without doing something about it won't take us anywhere.

Mrs Wolfie · Mayor's Aide Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 117

This is always delicate for me. I respect people's right to believe what they want but I don't respect their choice. The far out nonsense some folks would rather believe then what the Bible states boggles my mind. For instance, I have a friend who would rather believe in alien mind washing then in God who loves Him and simply wants his faith. I just do not get it.

Fascist

grumpybumpas · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:02 am Post subject: (Faith.)

All religions are based on faith and gaith is a guarantee of absolutely nothing to absolutely no one, akin to hope,wishful thinking etc,etc,etc.

reviewer · Mayor's Aide Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 145

prue187 · Congressional Page Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 23

Libertarian · Congressional Page Joined: 02 Jun 2007 Posts: 10

Because that is the major religion in America. If Buhdism was dictating politics people would be against that too.

Strategos · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:55 am Post subject:

Im a Orthodox, and i rather people being better, trying to live up to the heroes from the Bible, The world used to be a christian for the most part, and it was a better place to live in, no sexual predators, etc.,

Even if its all a lie, I would rather have kids thinking What would Jesus do? everytime they have a chice to do whats right and whats wrong.
Life would be better, as long as the Bible is not misinterpitted, but alas we are human, and human beings always misinterpit things into their own profit.

So who should we really blame for all those Crusades, killings, reliougius wars? the religion? or mankind?
Those who are athiests claim that oh theyre christians and yet look what they did.
No, they are not christians, at least not how christians are described in the bible. They are people that pretend to be christain to thir own advantage.
But i got to say, we all ow it to the Roman Catholics from saving the world from the Muslim invadors.
Who knows? if it wernt for them, we would never be able to live with the choice to act according to our free will today.

James Rottnek · Mayor's Aide Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 65

There is finally someone else who knows what Zorastrianism is!

Strategos · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:11 am Post subject:

The oldest and most influencial religion in the world started by a Persian prophet.
Believed that Christinaity and other religions took their core beliefs from it.

It includes: God, Satan, heaven , hell, ressurection and sin. Basically the roots of Christianity as well as other religions.

deportliberals · Congressman Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 716

Strategos · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:21 pm Post subject:

LOl, muhhamed married himself into wealth to a 40 something year old widow at a very young age, and claimed that Archangel Gabriel appeared to him about 2400 times! Gabriel appeared only 3 times to Jesus!