Why are many Christians so intolerant of other religions and spiritual paths?

L Gilbert

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I would guess that most atheists don't talk about it?
Outside of a couple priests, one Anglican and one Catholic, and an occasional JW,I rarely have had occasion to chat about religion. CC is a wild departure from the norm for me. Even when prompted with an offhand comment about religion, I'll answer with a nod or an "oh."
In the past I was a bit more aggressive and would actually probe people a little but it doesn't take much for them to become all hot n bothered so I quit.
 

Sal

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Outside of a couple priests, one Anglican and one Catholic, and an occasional JW,I rarely have had occasion to chat about religion. CC is a wild departure from the norm for me. Even when prompted with an offhand comment about religion, I'll answer with a nod or an "oh."
In the past I was a bit more aggressive and would actually probe people a little but it doesn't take much for them to become all hot n bothered so I quit.
most people aren't up for a talk about their fundamental belief structure....or anything else important for that matter...that's why we land here I think.
 

El Barto

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most people aren't up for a talk about their fundamental belief structure....or anything else important for that matter...that's why we land here I think.
No one likes to be contradicted, it rocks the boat, it is ok if they do it tho. Yet if a truth seems to be self evident , wouldn't it stand on it's own? No , past that point people want to be right, that goes for everyone.
 

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L Gilbert

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most people aren't up for a talk about their fundamental belief structure....or anything else important for that matter...that's why we land here I think.
Probably. :) Discussion boards are good for discussing things. ;) Sleepy doesn't seem to be interested in discussing religious issues, however. It does seem like he can't pull himself away from the thread,s though. lol

No one likes to be contradicted, it rocks the boat, it is ok if they do it tho. Yet if a truth seems to be self evident , wouldn't it stand on it's own? No , past that point people want to be right, that goes for everyone.
Actually, I dislike being ignorant about things so if someone can contradict me with info I hadn't been aware of or evidence against what I know, then I welcome it. But that doesn't mean I won't tear it apart to see if it's good info or not. :)

Is that another one of your points?
 

El Barto

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Actually, I dislike being ignorant about things so if someone can contradict me with info I hadn't been aware of or evidence against what I know, then I welcome it. But that doesn't mean I won't tear it apart to see if it's good info or not. :)
That is a sign of healthy thinking
 

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most people aren't up for a talk about their fundamental belief structure....or anything else important for that matter...that's why we land here I think.

One day I lost my balance at the laundry chute and fell in here. How did you arrive?


No one likes to be contradicted, it rocks the boat, it is ok if they do it tho. Yet if a truth seems to be self evident , wouldn't it stand on it's own? No , past that point people want to be right, that goes for everyone.

Yes they do.
 

darkbeaver

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With my tinfoil hat via spaceship. :D

Some would say it was a broom.

I tried to sell used spaceship parts to EagleSmack a few years ago. Are ya interested. Front differential for a 63 DeathBird four door and a windshield, $100 Bail of straw for your broom $5.
Locutus said it was alright to flea market stuff here on Sundays.
 

gerryh

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Why are many Christians so intolerant of other religions and spiritual paths?





because they are arrogant.
 

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Why are many Christians so intolerant of other religions and spiritual paths?





because they are arrogant.



At one time I posted on a "Christian" website about polygyny and had my posts censored by the admin. He accused me of sacrilege and said I was promoting evil lifestyles. This despite the fact that I posted historical evidence that Christians practiced polygyny well into the 4th century when they were forcibly stopped by the Romans and their twisted laws. I have discussed this issue on Islamic and Jewish websites without any problem. But the so called "Christian" was intolerant of the truth.
 

Twila

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People are intolerant. Just because they have identified with an ideal doesn't make them a better person.
 

Walter

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At one time I posted on a "Christian" website about polygyny and had my posts censored by the admin. He accused me of sacrilege and said I was promoting evil lifestyles. This despite the fact that I posted historical evidence that Christians practiced polygyny well into the 4th century when they were forcibly stopped by the Romans and their twisted laws. I have discussed this issue on Islamic and Jewish websites without any problem. But the so called "Christian" was intolerant of the truth.
Which website?
 

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most people aren't up for a talk about their fundamental belief structure....or anything else important for that matter...that's why we land here I think.


Bingo Sal: Said it before; nothing we say on here's gonna impact the way we really feel, and no one has changed anyone that I know of.
Commies still comm
gunners still gun
haters still hate
Walters still wall
see ???
lol
 

petros

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At one time I posted on a "Christian" website about polygyny and had my posts censored by the admin. He accused me of sacrilege and said I was promoting evil lifestyles. This despite the fact that I posted historical evidence that Christians practiced polygyny well into the 4th century when they were forcibly stopped by the Romans and their twisted laws. I have discussed this issue on Islamic and Jewish websites without any problem. But the so called "Christian" was intolerant of the truth.

Take away the tax free status and require a degree from registered divinity college for so called pastors and what would be left remaining of American Born Yesterday Christianity?
 

Sal

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Bingo Sal: Said it before; nothing we say on here's gonna impact the way we really feel, and no one has changed anyone that I know of.
Commies still comm
gunners still gun
haters still hate
Walters still wall
see ???
lol
but we do all change in tiny bits every day, so discussion is always worth it

I truly do believe that listening to people thrash issues about on here has changed some of my ideas.
 

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At one time I posted on a "Christian" website about polygyny and had my posts censored by the admin.

And quite rightly, too. Serves you right.

It's funny how you and your Christianophobic mates never practise the "tolerance" that you like telling supposedly "intolerant" Christians to practise.

He accused me of sacrilege and said I was promoting evil lifestyles. This despite the fact that I posted historical evidence that Christians practiced polygyny well into the 4th century when they were forcibly stopped by the Romans and their twisted laws.
Polygamy in Christianity

There are numerous examples of polygamy in the Old Testament, but it is generally not accepted by modern Christianity. Some Christians actively debate whether the New Testament or Christian ethics allows or forbids polygamy. This debate focuses almost exclusively on polygyny (one man having more than one wife) and not polyandry(one woman having more than one husband).

Polygamy was an exception (although not rare) in post-exilic Israel. The practice began to be criticized and declined during the intertestamental period but there is some extant evidence of polygamy being practiced in the New Testament period. The Dead Sea Scrolls show that several smaller Jewish sects forbade polygamy before and during the time of Christ. The Temple Scroll (11QT LVII 17–18 ) seems to prohibit polygamy. However, polygamy was a tolerated practice in Jewish society during the patriarchal period.

"When the Christian Church came into being, polygamy was still practiced by the Jews. It is true that we find no references to it in the New Testament; and from this some have inferred that it must have fallen into disuse, and that at the time of our Lord the Jewish people had become monogamous. But the conclusion appears to be unwarranted. Josephus in two places speaks of polygamy as a recognized institution: and Justin Martyr makes it a matter of reproach to Trypho that the Jewish teachers permitted a man to have several wives. Indeed when in 212 A.D. the lex Antoniana de civitate gave the rights of Roman Citizenship to great numbers of Jews, it was found necessary to tolerate polygamy among them, even when though it was against Roman law for a citizen to have more than one wife. In 285 A.D. a constitution of Diocletian and Maximian interdicted polygamy to all subjects of the empire without exception. But with the Jews, at least, the enactment failed of its effect; and in 393 A.D. a special law was issued by Theodosius to compel the Jews to relinquish this national custom. Even so they were not induced to conform."

Tertullian, who lived at the turn of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, wrote that marriage is lawful, but polygamy is not:

"We do not indeed forbid the union of man and woman, blest by God as the seminary of the human race, and devised for the replenishment of the earth and the furnishing of the world and therefore permitted, yet singly. For Adam was the one husband of Eve, and Eve his one wife, one woman, one rib."

The Church held a synod in Hertford, England, in 673 that was supervised by Archbishop Theodore. Chapter 10 issued by the synod declared that marriage is allowed between one man and one woman, and separation (but not divorce) is only granted in the case of adultery, but even then remarriage is not allowed.

Polygamy in Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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