Do You Become Offended When Rejects Your Idea of the Truth?

[Da Troof]

I am not upset by people having a different view to mine.

However there is a big difference between having a different view of reality and believing something that is utter nonsense. This is made all the worse by those who believe the utter nonsense telling the rest how they should live their lives.

I think peoples religious beliefs should be fully and properly examined and debated and shown up for what they are UTTER NONSENSE. Only then can we set about creating a society with a sound moral base.

 

[autonomous1one1]

Just a question that popped up..... . If it doesn't upset you, why not?

My simple answer is 'love.' A more complicated answer is when oneself is seen in others, the other's perspective is understood, and life is in unity with the other there is no offense ever taken.

 

[BucephalusBB]

My simple answer is 'love.' A more complicated answer is when oneself is seen in others, the other's perspective is understood, and life is in unity with the other there is no offense ever taken.

Funny, I think your complicated answer is much simpler than your simple answer

 

[autonomous1one1]

Funny, I think your complicated answer is much simpler than your simple answer

Now that's offensive. ha ha. but, from your perspective one can see that that must be the case. You are trying to understand it. From my perspective, it is much simpler to just respond with one word.:angel2: But seriously, you are probably right and it would have been smarter to reverse the two. The depth of love can get pretty complicated to understand in this context.
Thanks for bouncing your opinion my way.
a..1

 

[MoonWater]

No, It would just be a waste of time and energy on my part if I did

 

[spiritually inclined]

Nope.

But I don't like self-righteousness or "godly indignation". Nor do I like people who are rude or disrespectful, of whatever belief or non-belief.

James

 

[zenzero]

Friend ChristineES,
Surely a good question.
Who gets offended?
It is the ego in the person. It is the *I* of the individual which gets offened [if it does]
per se, Am still to find that distinctive *I* what is ia only a part of the whole which is trying to find its way back to that whole.
So, that way there is never any hurting or getting hurt. Nothing emotional everything is existential or whatever the law of Nature decides is acceptable.
Like being one with the flow without being a seperate body in a way merging with the background changing colours where required and surely vulnerable at all times.
Love & rgds

 

[Katzpur]

Do you(theists) become upset when someone rejects your idea of God?

Almost everybody rejects my idea (i.e. my conception) of God. I'm so used to it that I'm genuinely surprised to hear someone not of my faith say, "Well, that makes sense."

If it does upset you, why is that? If it doesn't upset you, why not?

God is one subject that people feel very strongly about, but none of us is in a position to say for sure that what we believe about God is correct. It's pointless to be offended by differences of opinion about it.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

Just a question that popped up.
Do you(theists) become upset when someone rejects your idea of God?

No. Everyone has different opinions. Even Holy-spirit filled Christians don't agree on everything. I also think that if one truly does have the Holy Spirit, then they will not get upset if someone rejects their ideas. They will remain humble and patient.

 

[ladybug83]

Sometimes feeling offended and frustrated are difficult to seperate. I'll admit to feeling frustrated when someone rejects my religious beliefs because then I feel the need to explain them, to move the conversation to the point where we can both say, "Okay, I understand and respect your beliefs, I just don't have a reason to feel the same way about them." Sometimes it's also frustrating when you know someone who's caught in the middle, someone who can't completely reject our shared beliefs but doesn't have a testimony to them, either. Then I feel the need to somehow give that person a new perspective simply because I want to be able to share with him/her the same positive feelings and views.

 

[Starfish]

Just a question that popped up.
Do you(theists) become upset when someone rejects your idea of God?
Do you (atheists) become upset when someone rejects your idea that there is no God?
Does it not upset you?
If it does upset you, why is that? If it doesn't upset you, why not?

If I did, I'd constantly be offended. I live with rejection all the time, especially on RF. No I'm not offended, unless they ridicule my beliefs. Big difference and yes, that offends me. Otherwise, not a problem. Afterall I respectfully reject many other's beliefs as well.

 

[Katzpur]

No I'm not offended, unless they ridicule my beliefs.

Nobody likes to be ridiculed, but when a fellow-Christian ridicules my beliefs ("How can you believe in that stupid story about an angel and golden plates?") I just remind them that it's no more ridiculous than to believe that a virgin gave birth to the Son of God. That will generally shut them up. If it's an athiest who ridicules my beliefs, I can take comfort in knowing that it's not just my beliefs he's ridiculing, but the beliefs of everyone who believes in a Higher Power.

What bugs me far, far more than even ridicule is when someone who has never set foot in an LDS Church starts talking as if he were some kind of an authority on Mormonism. Whenever I hear a non-Mormon say, "Mormons believe..." I figure that what follows is going to be nothing more than a perversion of what we really believe. 95% of the time, I end up being right. It just annoys me to no end when I hear statements about LDS doctrine that obviously came from either an anti-Mormon website or from a book out of the "cult" section of a "Christian" bookstore.

I'm used to people rejecting my beliefs, and it seriously doesn't bother me at all. I just don't like them misrepresenting those beliefs.

 

[Starfish]

Nobody likes to be ridiculed, but when a fellow-Christian ridicules my beliefs ("How can you believe in that stupid story about an angel and golden plates?") I just remind them that it's no more ridiculous than to believe that a virgin gave birth to the Son of God. That will generally shut them up. If it's an athiest who ridicules my beliefs, I can take comfort in knowing that it's not just my beliefs he's ridiculing, but the beliefs of everyone who believes in a Higher Power.

What bugs me far, far more than even ridicule is when someone who has never set foot in an LDS Church starts talking as if he were some kind of an authority on Mormonism. Whenever I hear a non-Mormon say, "Mormons believe..." I figure that what follows is going to be nothing more than a perversion of what we really believe. 95% of the time, I end up being right. It just annoys me to no end when I hear statements about LDS doctrine that obviously came from either an anti-Mormon website or from a book out of the "cult" section of a "Christian" bookstore.

I'm used to people rejecting my beliefs, and it seriously doesn't bother me at all. I just don't like them misrepresenting those beliefs.

Agreed. I've never even seen anti-(insert any mainstream religion) literature. I wouldn't give it a moment of my time, if I did. I appreciate when others respect my beliefs in the same manner.

 

[Riverwolf]

I am not upset by people having a different view to mine.

However there is a big difference between having a different view of reality and believing something that is utter nonsense. This is made all the worse by those who believe the utter nonsense telling the rest how they should live their lives.

I think peoples religious beliefs should be fully and properly examined and debated and shown up for what they are UTTER NONSENSE. Only then can we set about creating a society with a sound moral base.

Uh... you just contradicted yourself.

"I don't mind others having a different view of reality than me, as long as it's not a view that involves gods."

That's a perfect example of the kind of closed-mindedness that offends me. One of the few things that can. I personally think it's UTTER NONSENSE to think that the only reality that exists is the reality as understood in this age and it will never change, because our sensory technology and mathematical calculations are as advanced as they could possibly get, and it's an UTTER MYTH that Einstein said "if my theories aren't disproven in the future then I've wasted my time." (yes he did say that)

Don't forget this: we know NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING about the world. My justification for saying that? We know more about the surface of the moon that the abyssal plane of our own bloody PLANET! In fact, we've only explored less than 1% of the depths, and that makes up the vast majority of the planet. When you understand that, you understand this simple question: if we don't even know about our own planet, how can we assume the gods don't exist?

After all, what would a cave-man say if he saw a flying saucer cone down from the sky and white-skinned humanlike creatures coming out of them? "Ugh ugh ooga-ooga god ooga." (Yes, I believe the earliest ideas of the gods were inspired by Grays)

...
There I go, ranting again.

 

[DallasApple]

Im not offended..I just don't like getting poked fun of and laughed at supposedly because I beileve in a pink fairy wearing a lepricons outfit .. riding on a unicorn eating pie in the sky with the cat in the hat...

That hurts my feelings after a while..

Love

Dallas

 

[BucephalusBB]

Im not offended..I just don't like getting poked fun of and laughed at supposedly because I beileve in a pink fairy wearing a lepricons outfit .. riding on a unicorn eating pie in the sky with the cat in the hat...

That hurts my feelings after a while..

Love

Dallas

Whahahahahahaha.......lolling... rofl!!!!
It's not pie you silly.. she eats only cake!!

(I swear it, the first to tell me that the cake is a lie gets a nice shining fruball)

 

[MoonWater]

Whahahahahahaha.......lolling... rofl!!!!
It's not pie you silly.. she eats only cake!!

(I swear it, the first to tell me that the cake is a lie gets a nice shining fruball)

The cake is a lie:run:

 

[Scuba Pete]

Do you(theists) become upset when someone rejects your idea of God?

This does not upset me. Condescension and/or bias because of these beliefs, however, REALLY upsets me. I don't like it!

 

[logician]

My beliefs are ridiculed constantly, you learn to develop a thick skin.

 

[Quiddity]

It used to a lot more years back. But then, I started to fight with catholics and I realized that in controversy, truth and clarity is bound to creep out. It's like that with people, it's like that with government, it's like that with religion. That's just life.

Besides, I think it's healthy that the non-theist can keep the religious honest. We'd return the favor but they haven't a moral fiber to stand on...:run:...joking.