Religious and non-religious people... it's all the same, isn't it?

[Donnajoe]

Personally, I don't care what people believe just so long as they respect other people's beliefs. What I find offensive is when people try to tell each other how to believe.

One thing I found particularly insulting was when an atheist (on another forum) made it sound like she was superior to religious people because she did not believe in God in any way.

But I also find it offensive when religious people are so caught up in their own beliefs and their own opinions that they won't even have an open mind about some things because they're scared of going to hell or something. Like, for example, (even if this is, perhaps, a silly example, heh) the Harry Potter issue... some people I have spoken to in some Christian chatrooms act like it's a book series that is straight from hell, and they won't even look at it or anything to see what it's like.

Obviously, I think bigotry can exist in any area of life... the color of one's skin, the way one talks, one's political opinions, and one's religious beliefs.

Anyway, I hope this can be a good discussion

 

[satinbutterfly]

I feel the same.

I wonder why people are so judgmental when it comes to religion.

I've never felt the need, even when I was more involved in religion, to tell others what to believe. It's a very personal thing.

 

[canidae]

Personally, I don't care what people believe just so long as they respect other people's beliefs. What I find offensive is when people try to tell each other how to believe.

One thing I found particularly insulting was when an atheist (on another forum) made it sound like she was superior to religious people because she did not believe in God in any way.

But I also find it offensive when religious people are so caught up in their own beliefs and their own opinions that they won't even have an open mind about some things because they're scared of going to hell or something. Like, for example, (even if this is, perhaps, a silly example, heh) the Harry Potter issue... some people I have spoken to in some Christian chatrooms act like it's a book series that is straight from hell, and they won't even look at it or anything to see what it's like.

Obviously, I think bigotry can exist in any area of life... the color of one's skin, the way one talks, one's political opinions, and one's religious beliefs.

Anyway, I hope this can be a good discussion

My my - an open mind, very nice :clap

Nothing to discuss for me - live and let live . . . unless they're just really wrong of course

 

[Sam]

Religious and Non-Religious basically we should make one thing clear and that is a person who is religious about his own religion can be non-religious when it comes to other religions.

For example, a certain group of people belonging to a particular religion will always compare their religion with other religions and will try to prove or promote that how their religion is the BEST.

This is nothing but a non-religious act, because we can be better and perform better if we respect other religions !!! I don't think that any religious book has written that other religions are not to be followed or so ....

Its fine if a person is happy with his/ her own religion but that doesn't give any right to them to point fingers at other religions, all are equal at one level.

 

[Sam]

We cannot challenge a person's right if that person wants to live in a certain religious belief its not necessary for us to agree on that, at the most we can try to convince about what is needed, but at last we can just mind our own business, and as Canidae said OPEN MIND is always preferred, even if you follow a religion or you don't.

 

[Donnajoe]

Those are some very interesting and insightful thoughts, thanks for sharing them

 

[sierrabravo]

i could care less where i came from...

 

[thatguyjeff]

The problem is that, for some religions, part of their belief system includes converting the non-believers. Their religion doesn't allow them to accept other's belief system.

 

[Minor Axis]

The problem is that, for some religions, part of their belief system includes converting the non-believers. Their religion doesn't allow them to accept other's belief system.

When you "know the truth" it's natural to try to convince others.

 

[BadBoy@TheWheel]

My thoughts are that typically the non-religious are usually far less apt to push their beliefs on others...

 

[lumpenstein]

My thoughts are that typically the non-religious are usually far less apt to push their beliefs on others...

That has always confused me. Shouldn't it be "non-beliefs"? It sounds like nit-picking but it's an important distinction. It like what always bothers me when people erroniously call Atheism a belief when it's not.

 

[Springsteen]

Believe what you want to believe. Me personally? I couldn't give a fuck about religion.