Why do (some) religious people feel so strongly about making other people share their views?
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For many, many, people, relgion is a security blanket, a roadmap through the uncertainties of life.  If you don't share their views (if you're using a different map), you call their map into question, you rip away their security.\n\nBut more than that, their view includes the injunction by their God to evangelize (share the good news) or convert the heathen.  They understand "the kingdom of God" as meaning "we all believe the same thing," not as meaning "we all compassionately allow others to believe whatever they will."\n\nWhich way do you take it?  Can you smile indulgently at the religious, or do you (also) need them to be more like you?  If the latter, you may already be more like them than you thought.  The song by Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?) comes to mind.
419024
I think the reason is that people are trying to show how smart they are about religion and they are also trying to convert other people any way they can.
775847
but but ... you list social woes while most religious folks clutch onto religion as a personal life raft.  whatever heinous actions are made in the name of their religion matters not.  it's the personal comfort they get from believing they're safe from their deity's wrath and the feeling of being special and a part of something bigger than themselves that cements their dependence on their religion. besides, the woes of the world created by religion are always blamed on an Evil One and evil doers.
460863
Everyone thinks that their beliefs are right. We need to have respect for eachothers' beliefs because if somebody insults your religion, how would you feel? Wars have broken out amongst us because of religion. It is all caused by a feeling each human has, that they, and only they, are right. We should overcome these feelings and respect other people's beliefs. When we do this, we truly become a kind and encouraging person.
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People will defend whatever they believe in/stand for, it's natural once someone is inspired, or indoctrinated, by those teachings...When it comes to spreading the teachings, it's a person's lack of understanding that all teachings have the same root that makes them oppose others' views on life...
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SOME religious people get easily offended because they were convinced by their church that they have THE truth. So they cannot conceive that other people are saying something different.\n\nI think that sometimes people are offended because they realise that others are telling a truth that they are not capable of accepting yet. I'm glad these people get offended, because that means that in the near future, they might get free from the ties of religion.
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Almost NO ONE CARES what other people believe, but they power trip about their own beliefs and are thrilled if they can "sell" them to someone with "inferior" beliefs or no beliefs at all.\n\nSo people barge in because they think they know better.  Religions are essentially seething cess pools that reek with this kind of busybody arrogance.
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Some may do it for the same reason religious people send missionaries out.  They want to share their perception of the truth with those who they see as lost.  Maybe you should look past the annoyance, and be grateful they care.\n\nOthers may do it because they find it unbelievable that people can believe in something so simplistic.  These athiests may be disdainful of people who believes something just because it feels good, and they (religious people) refuse to see things as a rational person would because they don't want to rock the boat in which their beliefs are floating.\n\nOthers may be tired of all the religious people who think that whatever the higher being is running everything (if there is a higher being) belongs to christians/muslims/etc.. just because these people have named it/him and have outlined all his characteristics, etc.\n\nAnd maybe people are bored on a Saturday night and they have found there is more action in the religion & Spirituality section than in the household cleaning section (if there is even such a section).
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I agree with you. Some people have weak minds, and need religion to support them. For some of these people, it's a benefit, for others, a mental parasite. Some people have strong minds yet still hold religious notins dearly. That's the way things are.\n\nI have neither. I am an atheist and a satanist, so I am just giving my outsider's observations.
889639
The same reason people who say they believe in god without a doubt obsessively come up with an answer for every question. Because they are mostly trying to convince themselves.
1001932
Unless someone ASKS you to share your faith, or unless you ASK them and they honestly say its OK, its not right to share. Don't even talk about it. OK, please listen, because I'm not going with this where you might think ... Its not right to share a thing that others don't want. That's to force an issue, and NO ONE has that right. BUT, that DOESN'T mean you can't spread a truth that YOU honestly believe. It just means you do it in another way. You teach and you share in such a way as to make others WANT what you have. How do you do that? You live your truth. Your actions, your manner, your life style ... ALL of these things speak loudly. If they're good, if you lead by having set a good example, people will want what you have because they see the goodness of it, and not because you bugged them about it with words that might actually push them away. ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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Nope.  At the very least it shows that I am important enough to that person that they are willing to make the effort to remember me in their prayers.  Why would anyone get upset that another person is concerned about them?  It's not like they're trying to convert me to their religion.  They are simply appealing to their beliefs to help me.
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The more eccentric a religion is the more they need to "push" it onto others.  If you feel that you are constantly being "convinced" about religion, maybe it is time to revisit your faith.
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The people who make the best impression on me tend to be the ones that don't feel as if they need to discuss their religion with me. Most of the people that impress me, can get their point across intelligently without having to use mythology, or mysticism to convince me.
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Well, that really isn't true of everyone. There are plenty of people who have no problem at all in making their religion known.\n\nThose who do not, I am sure, have a wide variety of reasons.\nSome people are very private by nature and feel their religion is something personal to them and just not comfortable sharing their beliefs to anyone other than the ones they are close to.\n\nSome people don't discuss their religion because of a sense of propiety. They were taught that discussing religion, except under certain circumstance is not polite, same with politics.\n\nSome people may live in an area or enviroment that are predjudiced against particular beliefs and they feel it best to keep them to themselves.\n\nThere are many other reasons, but these are a few.
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Some people are religious fanatics, unfortunately. Others believe that only their opinion/religion is the correct one and you aren't allowed to think any differently, sorry this is me also ranting. You're absolutely blummin right!
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I came to this conclusion about politics and religious types a few years ago and I will share this with you now ok...\n  Religious people feel the need to believe there is a greater force out there so that they think their lives have meaning. They have a Bible, they follow the Bible, they think that if they do not do exactly as the Bible says they will not go to heaven. Part of the Bible is to spread the word of God to as many people as possible. Part of the Bible is also that mankind has freewill to make their own choices and do as it pleases. \n\n      So the problem I have with religious zealots is that they remember the first and forget the second. \nWhy would someone want to join a religion where you come across sounding like a half baked loon to anyone you talk to about God?\n Wouldnt it be better to be loving and accepting of everyone and happy with yourself to the point where people ask you wow why are you so happy what are you doing right with your life? Rather than trying to cram it down our throats and legislate morality.\n Teach through example, be a good kind tolerant person who respects peoples wishes.  Uh there is more to is, but yeah Jesus would most definately be a liberal.