Does that not prove that Christianity has got it wrong.\n\nOr are they all Devil Worshipers?
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"So many religions": that just proves that Man's underlying need for religion is pretty common. Feelings of vulnerability, purposelessness, loneliness, and a need to belong are probably a universal part of the human condition. So Man created God (in his own image) to compensate for these shortcomings. \nWhich doesn't necessarily mean that Christians have got it all wrong, just soem of it!\nAnd no, they are not all Devil Worshippers. Only the Devil Worshippers are!
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It's funny how the way you see a situation depends on what side of it you are on. For example, many atheist believe that christians are insecure in their faith and as a result feel the need to get as many people in the world to also believe. Kind of a safety in numbers thing. It's interesting to see the same arguement being made from the other side.\n\nThat being said, I don't think it is accurate to claim that non-christians are critical of christians. It's more accurate to say that some non-christians are critical of christians, other aren't. Some Christians are critical of non-christians, other aren't.  It's just a fact of human nature. Some are more critical, others aren't. Unfortately, it's the ones who are critical that are heard most often.
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Most do not have a problem with Christianity when it comes to it's teachings on morality...\n\nRather, they have a problem with the inane and facile arguments proposed by hard-line, dogmatic Christians on such subjects as the 'Theory of Creation vs. The Theory of Evolution'.  For these narrow-minded individuals, no matter what one says or how one says it, if it goes against Scripture --- then THEY ARE WRONG!\n\nFundamentalist Christians fail to understand that The Bible is little more than a collection of imaginary causes and effects, and it distresses them intensely when you point it out to them.\n\nThat's why I seldom even try to make a point with them anymore:  It's like beating a Savior to death, only to have the Savior keep resurrecting himself to be beaten to death again, and again, and again...\n\n"The Christian conception of God…- is one of the most corrupt conceptions of God arrived at on earth.: perhaps it even represents the low-water mark in the descending development of the God type. God degenerated to the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes! In God a declaration of hostility towards life, nature, the will to life! God the formula for every calumny of ‘this world’, for every lie about ‘the next world’! In God nothingness defied, the will to nothingness sanctified!..."\n- Nietzsche
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no, you are absolutely right!  unfortunately, there are those who like to "use" the Bible (out of context, and re-translated to suit their agenda) to justify their hatred.  \nI was always taught that God created and loves us all, and that He makes no mistakes.  and Christianity is about love and acceptance.
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I disagree with djx_master.  We don't worship ourselves.  His answer is a classic one of closed mindedness.  Christians are taught to believe in one way & one way only.  I grew up Roman Catholic & know that all too well.  I also knew that Catholocism wasn't for me.  I had questions that no priest or other clergy member could answer.  So, I struck out on my own, spending time with Baptists & non-denominational Christians.  As for my Christian friends, I found some helpful information on the source below.  Witchvox has a lot of information on Wicca, Pagans, Shamans, etc.  What I did for awhile was put together a little leaflet that had information about Wicca & other Earth based religions to hand out.  I don't have the leaflet anymore due to a now gone virus.  I'd be happy to help you put one together if you'd like.  \n\n\nAlso, I'd like to add that Wiccans DO believe in an afterlife.  It's called Summerland.  It's similar to the Heaven that other religions teach about.  We believe in re-incarnation, rebirth & all that.  We don't believe in Satan or the Devil.  The pentacle represents Spirit, Earth, Air, Fire, Water.  When it has a circle around it, it's called a pentagram, which symbolizes that the elements are never ending.  We believe in a Goddess AND a God.  Our holidays are similar to Christian ones.  Ostara is like Easter, complete with eggs, bunnies, lambs, chicks, candy, etc.  Yule is Christmas.  We give presents, decorate a Yule tree & sing songs.  Our new year is Halloween, October 31st.  Some Wiccans celebrate both mundane & Wiccan/Pagan holidays.  I do.  I will for the rest of my life.
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I dont think they can be right, especially those that refute the others.  I think a spiritual path with no fixed ideas about God, the form he takes, is best.  It allows athiests and believers to agree.
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Thanks for debunking that baby smashing issue.\n\nIt strikes me as odd that the God-haters can find none of this negative text to rant about  in the new testament.\nWonder why that is?\n\nYou suppose its because the ancient world was filled with horrible evil people and God had to be harsh with them because they were downright wicked?   Huge  armies roamed about, plundering and pillaging everything they found. Maybe God knew things were going to become more civilized (at least for a little while) after Jesus came with the new message. \n\nGee, Jesus taught turn the other cheek, pray for your enemies. That doesn't sound like a hateful God to me.\n\nToo bad atheists can't come forward to the 21st century. \nThey accuse Christians of being stuck in the year 1000BC and yet the only part of the bible they care to quote comes from the BC era.  \n\nWonder why that is??\nBile spewing, hatefilled God haters. Sad, so sad.
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I don't see anything wrong with your beliefs.  In fact one of the things that pisses me off most in the Pagan community is Christian bashing.\n\nI believe some of this stems from people who call themselves Christians that ridicule our beliefs calling them false or devil-worshiping.  \n\nHowever, far more, I think, comes from some Pagan and Neo-Pagan authors who try to make Christians out to be the villains.  These people also perpetuate the myth that Christians hate everybody who isn't one and attempt to use the past, such as the crusades, in order to falsely validate this opinion.\n\nI don't think Christians ever blatantly took Pagan beliefs, Although I believe some Pagan practices may have been incorporated into Christianity, the same goes for virtually all religions.  We all take beliefs and/or traditions from religions that came before ours because they had been a part of life. Being Wiccan, I absolutely know Christianity couldn't take any of my beliefs because my religion is fairly new.\n\nAll in all, I see no reason to be at war with Christianity.  On the contrary, we should be working to better understand one anther's belief systems if at least to gain more knowledge about the world around us.
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In theory that would be good, but look at the answers here already and it is always the christians who come out with that stuff about there is only one god and one true religion blah blah blah. It's the christians who stand in the way of such unity.
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Yeah, you're actually quite right on this issue.  Thankfully, a very small number of Christians does recognize this fallacy.  Try researching "Christian mysticism."  It's very interesting.
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I'm not sure where you are coming from, particularly in referene to the "details" given, but it is true that Christianity as portreyed in some of these answers does not seem too relevant to the 21st century.  Makes me wonder how representative of Christians they really are, though; perhaps it is the unusually fanatical ones that spend their time answering every question with a Bible reference, and give us all a bad case of the heebee jeebees.  Frankly, I can't see anyone converting to Christianity because someone wrote "God is angry with you" in one of these answers.  I did actually get that line in an answer once.  Imagine the arrogance to speak for God to that extent!
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Well, first of all I wanna make some things clear.\n\nsomeone here said that the devil has led them away from jesus by tempting them. now, the DEVIL makes people sin right? now, why should the devil lead them to islam? in islam we respect jesus as our prophet, we even have on e whole verse for marriam (or mary). what is so satanic about that? isnt sex a sin in christianity? then why are most of them from "good christian families" doing it so openly? \n"CONVERT OR DIE"? theres no such things. Our prophet mohamed (p.b.u.h) respected the non-muslims, and didnt force them. in our holy book theres a verse that goes " ...you go your way, and we go ours..".\n whos gonna kill these people if they dont convert? your just saying these dumb things to cover up ur insecurity\n\npeople convert to islam, beacause they have found the truth for themselves.\n\nthe reason that people attack this fact buy saying the devil this and that is because they are insecure.\n\nread harun yahya, mauriche bucilles and ahmad deedats books.\nkeep an open mind and read these books before you say this and that.\n\nso far, i have never heard of a muslim converting to any religion and preaching.\n\nOverall, i think its best we stop attacking each other, and learn to respect each other. religion is somthing for yourself, what you believe is sacred in your heart. so the more you question the more you try to make excuses it means youre insecure. peace
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The fact the christianity and other such religions have a particular point of origin proves that they aren't for real.\n\nWhy would god have made these people here and these people there, so the people there could tell the people here all about him?  Thats absurd.
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You're quite right - and you have to consider how many of these people ahd political agendas of their own to fulfill. If there is any more doubt - how about the fact that the Bible has been editted to include and exclude certain items?
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It is my understanding that they believe that satan & Jesus are half brothers, or something close.  I too would like to know where they get this idea.\nWhere do they get this idea????
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absolutely right, id like to quote terry pratchetts "good omens"   ---  "you can't trust the churches to stamp out the devil and his minions.... if they succeeded they would be out of a job
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I have seen christianity mislead people.  I've seen large amounts of christians support torture and murder, I've seen vast numbers of christians support war and killing, I've seen christians that support executions like the one that killed Jesus, I've seen christians that have thrown their own children onto the street, homeless because they were born gay, to be raped and abused by criminals.  I've seen christians mothers disown their daughters for marrying outside the faith.  I've seen many high-up christians cover up the rape and abuse of children, And now there is a massive wave of moral sickness moving through the US christian community with the idea of the "undeserving poor".  Yes, now millions of american christians are promoting this corrupted ideal in order to escape from Jesus's most fundamental commandment of loving one another and caring for the poor.  Yet millions of christians in the US promote the idea that the poor take advantage of the rest of us, that they do not deserve our help, and that they are lazy.\n\nFrom where I stand, the majority of modern christians resembe the pharasees of the bible more than righteous men and women.