Just wondering because there's too many people don't believe and many people just believe... I can different between of them, but I'm not one of them anyway. I don't want to be non-christian or christian... If so, who said it?
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The world is not so divided.\nYou could try ‘religious and not religious’\nBut I really don’t get why different religions feel the need to differentiate them selves from each other.  Its almost like watching Sunday football backing your favorite team, vandals, hooligans and all.
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Christian do have a mind to think otherwise God wouldn't have gievn us one, but my thoughts have over the years being influenced by the bible, Nevertheless I do make a point to paraphrase it to my experience so it is more at human level for someone like you to understand. Check my previous answers, I seldom use bible quotes straight off unless demanded.
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Perhaps we can conclude that there are so many spiritual responses because there really are more people in the US who are believers than not.\n\nIf you read a hate-filled, science bashing response, then you can assume that you are dealing with an unlearned person and they are talking from ignorance or spewing rhetoric.\n\nAs for myself, I don't believe in something just because it says it in an old book.  I can see the result of following its teaching by what my life is like.\n\nAlso, what if it is totally wrong?  How can living a life that honors our family, friends and even strangers be a bad thing?  And if we get comfort from knowing that we are not alone and that we have something to look forward to when we are gone from here then who are we hurting?\n\nMaybe if you had something to believe in besides Narcissism you wouldn't be so cynical.
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Why is is so easy to pick on Christians for their beliefs and not others for their non belief?  There are hypocrites everywhere, not just in religion.  I am sorry that you had a bad experience with one Christian, but as one myself, I get really tired of everyone grouping people into one category based on one experience.  I suppose I could go around and make ignorant judgements on every type of people because of one instance, but why not just accept that there are people that really do take the word to heart and practice the living proofs of the Bible?!  I can't make everyone else do it, but I know that I live my life according to Christ's teachings.
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I'm a Christian but those who are not Christian do not base there beliefs onthe Bible.
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lol, the guy above me said both....He practices doublethink! Well, Pagans came first and since the idea was popular then that the Christians "borrowed" it. (Has it been returned yet?)
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:) if they say they are not christians. then they are not christians.
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if you are not willing to listen to Christ then are you not also close minded? it is quite intersting that the most close minded people are the ones that are "open" minded.
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Was it Mark Twain who said something about that he might believe in Christianity if he met anyone who actually practiced it?\n\nFirst of all, your question sounds a bit made up, but I'll assume it was honest. There are two types of Christians - those that say it, and those that do it. Unfortunately the ones that say it far outnumber the ones that do it.\n\nHowever, there is a very important point to be made. Virtually all the aid programs around the world that help the poor, sick and hungry are run by Christian organizations. It is the Christians that are putting themselves on the front lines to help others.\n\nMost religions have groups that help their own. E.g., Muslim, Hindu, Jewish organizations to help Muslims, Hindus, Jews, respectively. However, Christians (at least real ones) are pretty much the only ones that help others as well, because their doctrine is the only one that commands it. E.g., Luke 6:32-35\n\n"For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil."
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i am christian, and would not try to convert him so that he would not be tortured.\n\ni am not responsible for Louie's beliefs.  He is.
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You know, YOU take the Bible more literally than we ""Bible-thumpers"" do! You here, not us, seem to be claiming that every single verse in the Bible MUST be taken literally, and we believe that, yes, there really are verses that are meant only to be taken as allegory. Did Gd actually ""walk"" in the Garden of Eden? YOU seem to say that this, too, must be taken literally, and not us!\n\nSo, it is possible, FOR US, to ""Believe in"" the Bible without taking Every Single verse literally, although you seem to say this verse must be taken literally for us to believe in it....
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No, it doesn't make sense. It's another (of many) reasons people have non-belief. Why would anyone want to believe in a higher power that would punish them, even if they were good people and led very positive lives, just because they didn't acknowledge the existence of or worship that higher power? Not appealing to think the common example of a god is thinking "I don't care how wonderful you are, since you won't bow to me I'm gonna punish you". *shakes head*
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It is not that people are divided into two camps, "those who believe, and those who don't".  In fact this is a belief structure on its own.  Many atheist have strong beliefs, they are just different from your own.  So maybe the better question to ask would be, "why do you believe something other than what I believe?"\n\nMost people who question Christianity do so because it is very easy not to believe in it.  Remember that the foundation of Christian beliefs is FAITH.  \n\nFaith is not easy for people who believe in science and reason.  Many of the beliefs of the Christian faith are total unreasonable.  For example, "The world was made in seven days".  This is not reasonable at all, but one needs faith to believe it.\n\nFor myself, I don't believe that Jesus was any more the son of god than you are.  Why? Because it is totally unreasonable.  But I do believe in God.  Although the God I believe in is likely nothing like the one you imagine.  My God is universal, and impossible to understand, we are too small and simple to understand a truth that grand.  My God is totally unreasonable also, but I don't attribute Human characteristics to him like many Christians do.  My God is everything, and everywhere.  And my God is inseparable from us.  We are, and it is us, and everything else.\n\nThe sad thing is that most Christians hope that Jesus will figure it all out for them.  All you have to do is believe in him, and that's it.  So is it really faith, or is it desperate hope for lost people?  I find Christians simplifying life so often it makes me wonder if they really KNOW Christ like they say they do.
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He did not. It's so sad. I wish he had then we would not have to listen to this "You will go to hell unbeliever" talk. Jesus Christ taught about love not about reminding people that they are going to hell if they don't convert to "Christianity". I like what Mahatma Gandhi said "I like your Christ but I do not like your christians. You christians are so unlike your christ."
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DAVINCI PEOPLE NEW RELIGION INSTEAD CHRISTIANITY\n\nNow most people turning their faith to the DaVinci code rather than the "LIE IN THE CHRISTIANITY". That is what they said. Most of them think with their plain brain and found that the DaVinci code is really turn to logic and not like the god fairy tale. Nobody believe that god turn to become a baby and died to save our sin. THE DAVINCI CODE revealed that Jesus Christ IS NOT A GOD ANYMORE. It is really breaking the LIE BEHIND christianity. What should i say, the logical turn to DaVinci. We have brain to choose.
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I don't think that people understand his message and they take it way out of proportion. I saw a show on TV that says everything in the bible isn't true because back then no one could read or write anyways. Personally, I don't believe in the whole crock of it.
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I have actually once been called "too smart to follow the church the way you do"  So, in my opinion, you are not stupid, or brainwashed.  Non believers don't understand, and don't want to.  You can't convince the unwilling- that applies to you too.  People who don't believe can't make us stop believing, and Christians can't make non believers believe.  \n\nOne day, I believe some will cry out- "I should have listened"  Christians are supposed to be fishers of men- we just don't get many bites--:)