I hate religious people, why is that a problem?

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I agree with Sand. This is entertaining. by hating the religious your in many ways behaving like them in the sense that you judge another for not seeing the world as you do. I live in a part of the world where those who are not protestant christian are stigmatized. However I pity the religious, at least the ones in my area, because they are taught to believe in Christianity at such a young age that they believe it without even knowing why and there for are basically brainwashed. making the idea of believing anything else or even having to logically consider why they believe what they believe a very scary concept. I myself have experienced this first hand as I was raised in a closed minded religious family who I still choose to keep blissfully ignorant of my atheism so as not to invoke a lot of what we call "witnessing" here in the south. which of course is the act of obnoxiously telling someone that they must believe in God or face damnation.

First of all it is easy to hate. It is hard to accept. As a Christian, I love Jesus, but I am not a huge fan of his supporters. My faith is what keeps me grounded, humble and thankful. I still have not found a church that makes me feel comfortable. As much as I love God and Christ, (please forgive me), I can't stand the people i have met at the different churches I have attended. They all come up to you, ask you your name, what you do for a living, marital status, HEY slow down. I just met you. Do you really want to know everything about me because you care, or because it gives you ammo at your next "bake -off".
The BIBLE warns us of false phophets. Most Christians tend to over-do the I care about you factor. GOD knows your heart, stay true. The human heart is wild.We can be loving, we can also be evil, human nature. At church, nobody drinks,smokes, curses, sins, or cut somone off on the highway. After church, the same prick is cutting you off in the church parking lot in order to get to the 7/11 to buy beer,smokes, lotto tickets in order to place his bet for the muther fu**ing Super Bowl. FRUSTRATING. Humans are not perfect. Jesus loves you and the rest of the A-holes unconditionally!! Talk about frustration. In the end, it's not about how humans look upon you, it's how our CREATOR see's you. Hang in there champ. Build a relationship with someone who will ALWAYS love you (JESUS) and will never turn his back on you. Find any person who could do this.....Nobody! Good luck, bro!!

I know how you feel. I was bullied by so called "Christians" about my special intrests and because I basicaly had an invisable "kick me" sign. One boy in paticular was the most horrible and when I tried to tell his parents what he was doing they denied it. Also how could people be so mean and heartless to animals: the most innocent of God's creation. Why did they find it "cute" when I wanted to pray for my animals when I was worried about them? Why were they so mean to me when they clearly teach to be kind to others? For awhile I think I was an athiest but then I realised it is people's fault, not God's. God gave them free will because He loved them and they chose to act up and be punks. I also don't understand why I must go to church when my own body is supposedly a temple. My parents insist I dress up for church but I feel so fake doing so and feel I am doing it to apease my parents instead of God. I feel like I go to church simply to appease my parents. I feel so much closer to God when I am by myself in the woods or something, not surrounded by so many other people in an artifical place. I have to use all my stregenth to block out the noise, the people and other sensory bombardment that I can't focus at all on what the priest is saying. I feel I go to appease my parents.

I like what this dude has to say: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gworC0-oQbw&feature=channel[/youtube]

I don't hate them, I just despair whenever I'm exposed to them.

I honestly don't really hate religions or religous people. Even though I poke fun at Christains for things like killing and torturing Pagens or anyone that didn't follow their beliefs, ruining the culture of the Native Americans and Africans and trying to wash their hands of it, and the fact that they still refuse to accept the fact that homosexuals are people too and that God didn't invent AIDS just to kill them all off. I still truely believe that everybody should have the right to believe whatever they want as long as it doesn't hurt anybody.

Religion with all its flaws, does do some good for people. It gives people a purpose and helps them to forget how meaningless life really is. Like all things in life, you just have to take religion with the good and the bad.

Ghandi based the lion's share of his ideas off of the Jain faith. However, he mixed enough of his personal hatred and bias in with touches of Hinduism so that the local population had a much easier time following him than the restrictive teachings of Jainism.

Martin Luther King Jr. also based the grounds of his movement off of Jainism, not Christianity. He used many of the same tactics as Ghandi did earlier in the 20th century, but adapting it to the American sociopolitical situation rather than the Indian.

Personally, I find it hard to even contemplate "hate". OP's opinion stems from some deep-rooted hatred towards religion, but I simply can't understand this. When someone tells me that they are religious, I find my opinion of them dropping, but I can't say that I honestly have any emotional response to this. This is not meant to discount your emotional response in any way, but rather as a contrast of our similar viewpoints. Additionally, I don't wish to "piss anyone off" on the religious side, because I can honestly say I have no strong emotion either way, simply a philosophical and logical stance on why I disagree with you.

With that said, I cannot abide the company of most people who outwardly express their religious views in any way. This probably stems from a lot of reasons. My religious upbringing (Mormon), surrounded by a vast firewall of mind-crushingly illogical discussion, ignorance, and a close-mindedness towards any progressive thought, inquiries towards the basis or historical fact behind the founding of said religion, or general dissent in any way probably caused much of the souring. This escalated over the course of my teen years, as I began to explore the boundaries of the views that the people around me held, and I began to notice that almost nobody had any knowledge whatsoever about the founding of their particular church, the specifics of any other religion (even those encompassed under the same umbrella i.e. Catholic/Lutheran/Protestant), or any ancient religions that details of their own faith were based off of. This became very unsettling and I've found it to be true in nearly every religious discussion I've had over the course of my life. This further "turned me off" to those that consider themselves religious, as I have a very hard time understanding how someone can base so much of their lives and actions on something they don't understand. When discussing this very same point with these same religious folks, it ceaselessly leads them back to retreat into their dogma, and usually ends in a personal attack on my sources or character.

But I still can't figure out how or why to "hate" these people. OP, what bridges the gap between my complete lack of comprehension at this view of the world and your nearly dogmatic hatred of these same people? Furthermore, what stops the bridge between your hatred and the views of people like the Islamic Extremists like the Taliban and Al'Qaeda, Buddhist Extremists of Japan in WW2 fame, or Christian Extremists like the Army of God, Ku Klux Klan, or the thousands of other hate-grounded Christian groups currently operating in America?

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I hold a similar stance on religion and those religious, but how do you go from "utter disbelief at their blindness and stupidity" to "hatred", and how does this make you any better than Extremist groups?

Hate of any kind just leads a person to anger and resentment; and these negative emotions may in turn lead to ulcers, headaches, heart problems, and other physical ailments. This isn't to say that if a person has a headache, he is covered in hate, anger, and resentment; but it does suggest that prolong hate, anger, and resentment may have serious health consequences. Just something to ponder.