Category: Let's talk
earlier I read a topic in which myself and some other users expressed our non-belief in god/religion/angels/life after death. A user who is religious then posted to the topic saying "i'll have to prey for you". my question is this, why is it that religious people feel they have to prey for those of us who don't believe? Personally I find that somewhat of an insult as this implies that i am unable to make up my own mind what I should/shouldn't believe. After all, if I went up to a devout christian and said "I really hope you come to your senses and realize that God doesn't exist", they would feel that I had insulted their religion, so what gives the religious the right to decide the non religious should be "saved"?
though I'm Christian, I agree! I hate those Gosphal shouters who think it's a deadly sin for you to be another religion.
SB, we'll just have to keep praying for you and pray that you may understand why we prayed for you in the first place, and if that doesn't work wwe'll hve to pray that it works.
Well, I consider myself Christian. Further, I'd go so far as to say I was born again. However, I'm not what a friend of mine calls a "rabid born again Christian." While I do pray for people, I don't havethe ned to let them know that's what I'm doing. As SB and Wildabrew have both implied, here and in other threads, that kind of behavior is offensive. I don't mean to put words in either of your mouths, but I'm inclined toagree. Its like an Amway salesman trying to get everybody else to become one. Sorry if I offended anybody with that last.
Lou
I am christian but i don't agree either for people who pray for others because they are not christians. If they have got some extra time for praying they should pray for themselves because even christians do mistakes in their life and they have to pray for themselves for god's forgivnes before praying for others. It doesn't mean because somebody is a christian that he or she is perfect. We do mistakes like other people.
Nikos
Somehow I think it's just a stock answer somebody can use when they have no real answer to give.
Absolutely, i'm sick of being stopped on the street and asked if i know jesus. When i say i'm an Atheist, they suddenly think it their duty to convert me then and there. I keep telling them that god, if he even exists, is a saddest, yet they persist...I think religion is something you can have behind closed doors...and in no way should it be an out there sort of thing.
Being prayed for is one thing, being converted is another. Whether I believed or not I'd be happy knowing someone was praying for me, sending good thoughts and wishing me well sort of thing, that =simply can't hurt and it's got to be a good thing. The implication of the "I'll pray for you" sentence is what bothers me, that I am pathetic and stupid and not as good as the person praying for me (in the case of converters). I, personally, don't need converting, being a Christian myself, but I'd see how that was utterly indignifying to non-Christians. So Jews and Muslims, feel free to pray for my good health and that I may have a rich and happy life, be sure I won't be offended.
cheers
-B
It's quite strange...thee only people who seem to ever wish to convert me are of the christian faiths...christians, jahova's whitnesses, mormons and the like...i've never been bothered by budists, muslams or even catholics.
I'm not against people having their beliefs, but when people try to make me believe them, i get annoyed. mainly because to me it often sounds like a broken record, in the sence that i've heard it all before, and none of it has ever taken me and the people telling it never seem to be good at it.
there's a very simple solution dont answer them.
I'm a Christian and the Bible says that we should spread the Gospel and such but it nowhere says to beat people over the head with our beliefs. There are verses in which we are told to simply love one another, that's it and also, for the whole "i'll pray for you" thing, Christ gives a parable in which he speaks of a rich man who makes a big deal over his "religious" acts and a poor woman who does these things quietly and he says that she is blessed for being humble about it.
I wish other Christians would seriously stop filtering and twisting Biblical teachings into what they feel suits best.
Jesus is not a buffet table, it's either all or none and whichever you choose is noone's business but yours.
To the Christians, if you're that concerned with bringing people to Christ, don't offend them! It's not up to you to judge so if you want Jesus to be real in their lives, do it in a dignified way, show them, bless them and teach by what you do, not by berating them for what they believe.
that is all.