As soon as they find out you don't believe it is "To hell with you infidel" Why does it matter if I make up a puppetmaster to control my life or not?
211139
In order to be affected by any superstition, including religion, you have to believe in it. If some witch doctor placed a curse on you, nothing would happen unless you believe he has power over you. Religion works the same way. If they can't control you they call you a heretic or blasphemer and would love to dispatch you to the hereafter if the law still permitted it.
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God gave humans the gift of free choice, which explains how some of us have turned against Him.  We are NOT puppets, but keep in mind that everything happens for a reason, including the murder of another.\n\nGod will take a human life away on judgement day if that person is not TRULY devoted to Him.
167159
No one has concrete answers on what happens in the after life, least of all the Bible. Your powers are something that is not based on religion. Its part of how you function, like breathing and eating. You can't get rid of them and you can't be held responisble for them being there. Don't try and force a dogmatic view on something like that. If someone tells you that your powers are of the devil then you can know in your heart that they are blissfully ignorant of the truth. You need to look inside yourself and try and fit it in your own beliefs. Don't let someone else tell you what to believe. Work it out on your own. You can't let someone else tell you how it works when they don't have the gift. Only you can do this for yourself.
146442
If it were true, then it wouldn't nessesarily make any real difference. If you yourself are a good person, then it shouldn't  matter that you have a parent who is in fact the lord of all that is evil. You wouldn't have to follow in their footsteps if you didn't want to.\n\nIf God can mess up and create The Devil, then surely The Devil can mess up and create someone who isn't that bad.\n\n\nIf either of them happen to exist in the first place, that is.
666987
BECAUSE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER THAN THAT.  AND IF WE DO IT, IT JUST GIVES THEM MORE OF AN EXCUSE TO TORTURE.  AND YOU WILL SAY ANYTHING, ANY LIE, UNDER TORTURE JUST TO GET IT TO STOP.  SO IT DOESN'T WORK ANYWAY.  Get it?
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It's because they are worried about that person's soul and are scared that the pagan in question will go to hell. \n\nPersonlly, unless asked to pray for someone, I never tell anyone who I pray for. I do so in private and it's between me and God. To announce it is to show off, in my opinion. I really have no problem pagans lighting candles for me (a few of my friends do this because of my health problems). It's kinda the same thing. You're asking your diety to watch over said person.
496177
They will say what they want to say no matter how much truth is behind it as long as it serves their own agenda. They have seen how many Christians are converting to Islam and frankly it scares them. They want to keep people away from it so they broadcast evil stories to those that trust that they will tell the truth.\n\nI say let them be and when they face the Creator they will have to explain themselves. They may mislead many people, however many more can smell a bad potato and know when not to use it.
81540
It bothers you because you have the answer in your heart! Of course God wouldn't do that. But religion will tell you otherwise to try and control you with fear. He cannot be loving and forgiving and also send people to hell. That wouldn't make him the conqueror over sin would it? \n\nWho won, Satan or Jesus? Jesus saved the world and that is that. People just don't want to believe that they are free and loved. They want to do good things and be rewarded for them. And they want to be punished for being bad, or see other people being punished. Would you send someone from your family to hell - for anything? So how much more loving and forgiving is God than you are? \n\nYour heart is more reliable than any book.
567179
Different people need to believe different things to continue going on and dealing with life as long as that individual does not cause malicious premeditated harm to anyone (you can argue what that incorporates amongst yourselves cause I'm not 100% sure) let them believe what they choose after all someone telling you you are wrong or going to hell because of what they believe doesn't make it true and they will not know if its true until they are dead and maybe not even then.
479002
It isn't that they tend to believe they are religious figures exactly, they often have delusions about their own importance, their significance in the world, therefore being Jesus or whoever would make you incredibly important.  Also, if someone thinks the CIA is after them or satelites are spying on them, that too would make them a very important person.
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Well, Osama... It seems as though your deceptions are answered every time.  You must be a little embarrassed.  Most people would start trying to understand what they are talking about by now.\n\nOh well, if you really do believe what you say and understand it, you should have no trouble answering my 4 questions:\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1006051020820&r=w\n\nIf you can not, everyone will just continue thinking that you don't know what you are talking about.
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A lot of people get touchy when they are trying to show you their truth and you make a valid or logical point that doesn't fall in line with their beliefs. They are too stubborn or too afraid to admit there may be other possibilities because they have been conditioned to believe that you are damned to hell if you question any part of their particular religious doctrine. Therefore, if you don't take their word for it even if they can't show or prove they are right, the only way they can fight you is to shut you up or get rid of you so you would have less chances to influence anyone else to question what they deem to be the ultimate truth.
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You have freewill in your actions, but not your beliefs. God also expects you to override the logic-center in your brain and actually believe stupid silly unfounded claims about a virgin having babies, and an invisible man in the sky who set up his son to be murdered to get you off the hook.\n\nIt all sounds like some sick mob conspiracy to me.
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starting with you?  is well known that ignorant people is the least appropiate to sugesst anything since they'll fail, may be if you know anything about prophecies, what you just proposed is exactly what the devil wants, it will make it's own those that carry a sign on their palm of their hand o on their forehead and the sign is the number of the name of a man and whomever that has wisdom may know it by this is the number 666, but in order to do it it is to put it in those that the devil already has control over them.....and not to those that you don't really know anything about......exemple...you already have a number on wich you could be known by....let's see social security number, they know just about everything about you.....where where you born, who's your daddy, who's your mommy what school you go to, where you work or and where you live,etcetera etcetera, Want more? weel here it goes, How long ago this started to happen? long time ago! but it has been reenforced recentlly with or by a man of inmense power a beast of a man....and just count the number of his full name.....R o n a l d= 6  W i l s o n= 6    R e a g a n= 6....you do the math and read the real history (wich one is it?)  easy get the history of the world written by different nations....for exemple the version of the mexicans, about the Monroe Doctrine...before the taking of mexico and after Mexico had already fought other battles how the army of man defeated a week and poor mexican army comppossed by teenagers, also the version of all the nations where U.S. has been involved in. well you do you homework before you decide to go to hell by being an arrogant and greedy. best of luck and may God forgive us all.
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Because in the eyes of some people you really arent' one with god unless you're in their religion and in their church.  If you don't belong to them, then you are a sinner and are going to hell.  I had the same thing happen, and they kept saying it was demons not letting me go to their church, that i had demons.  I said yes i do and they are going to make me kick your ass.  They left me alone after that.
99565
I've been told more times than I can count that because I am Wiccan I am worshiping Satan and going to hell.  I had a person I worked with once they found out I was Wiccan spent every time we had to deal with each other trying to convert me and tell me I was wrong and it was false.  This person went so far as to send their pastor in to talk to me and try to convert me.  It didn't work I told them bluntly I was happy with my religion.  After open circle one night several of us had a car load of what we call 'attack Christians' follow us home and sermonize us the whole way over a loud speaker from our car!  Things got so bad for us when we held open circle we had to get a restraining order because of protesters who shouted the worst things you can imagine!
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Because you are a human being, you have a right to believe what you choose to believe. If someone doesn't like it, that's their problem, not your's.