Christians: Why does most of the world worship falseness and is in direct opposition to the bible?

Question

Now just so I don't insult the atheist's supposed self-proclaimed intelligence, let's make this more vague. Why do many people of the world worship success, money, image, business, might, intellect, and follows the beat of their own lusts, and have absolutely NO inner spirit/soul, or genuine kindness towards their fellow man?

Do you have any idea how many kids take drugs to "feel something," or "feel good?"

How common the saying "life sucks and then you die" is?

How many people have totally given up on life, are eaten alive by their own self-consciousness, hardships in life, and inability to obtain what they want?

How Hollywood/Being Rich are shoved down everyone's throat?

I alone have faced NUMEROUS examples throughout life of disguisting people, who worship all false things, who didn't like me just from be being in their presence because they sensed I was "different" than them. People CAN do that, and they immediately got annoyed, and even found ways to throw backhanded comments, even doctors.

Yes, even professionals!

They're so ingrained in their "business" and are so focused on their lives, skiing, money, impressing others, their luxury cars, all that total c**p in my opinion, so that when someone walks in their office with absolutely no genuine care about any of that, they pick up on it and get irritated, because in some weird way, they're looking to get "respected" for all of that.

It's disguisting.

How all of this falseness, or at least it's false in MY opinion, is making everyone so fast-paced, disregarding human life (life is cheap, etc), and frankly everyone's so G dmn, pissed off, etc.

It's because of all the pressures of modern society.

SO, being that the world is largely like this

A)Why does it continue blindly to be like that, endlessly, and they even talk against anyone that tries to think differently? (ever see countries where people aren't even ALLOWED to think/speak freely because of the controlling nature of their government?)

and

B)How do you oppose or stand up to even authority figures/doctors/professionals who are SOOOOO SO very ingrained in their "falseness" that they'd most likely kick you out of their office if you ever directly opposed them so much. They'd just think you were crazy and needed therapy or something.

Seriously..wtf?

And I hope I made this easy on the atheists because I tried to stay as FAR away from bible quotes and excerpts as possible. lol. I know how much that pisses you guys off.

And these things I've written, even though from a Christian perspective, are more...watered down and not so one-sided.

Answer 1

Seriously uneducated tripe.

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Ad...

about 54% of people in the world worship the God of Abraham, the God of Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

Some people believe that those who do worship as they do worship falsely, but, that is a subjective opinion and not a FACT.

The FACT that you believe this to be a FACT tells me exactly how educated you are.

PS Jezebel, just because you can does not mean you will.  IN fact, there is no time frame for you to see visions or feel Christ's love.

If you actually read the Bible many of the prophets asked God to take their lives rather than let them go on.  Jonah is the most famous.  There are others.

Just because you love God does not mean you are always filled with Joy.  Even Christ asked that the cup be taken away so we would know that even he was not always joyous.

Answer 2

what depressed me the most in my life...and gave me such a pessimistic view...was being told I could have visions of Jesus and I could feel his love and presence and well, it never happened...made me feel like an idiot.  there had to be somthing wrong with me RIGHT?

sigh

Answer 3

I didnt read it all but that statement dose not exclude christains.

For example I though Jesus was loving and forgiving etc.  but you hear alot of christains condeming people.

And dont forget the catholic priest, I am sure that child molesting is   in direct opposition to the bible.

Answer 4

I don't give two hoots about Ms. Hilton or Ms. Spears.  No actual grown-up does, religious or not.  You are going on about people of whom I have never heard and would not care for if I had, most probably.

I have never used cannabis and I have not been to a church more than 20 times in the past 40 years.  Mostly weddings and funerals.  I've been drunk a few times but I can count that on my fingers, maybe I'd have to take one shoe off.  I've had about ten standard drinks in the past three months.

I'll let you into a secret.  The cheats, liars and abusers are among the churchgoers too.    

The Bible is a collection of myths, legends, poetry, religious rants and a smattering of actual history.  There is no repeat no independent evidence for most of the events recorded in it.  

The first dozen or so verses of Genesis are a first-draft attempt at cosmology from men who had almost no evidence and no measurement to go on.  They did not do so bad a job but to call their efforts the absolute truth is to fly in the face of a huge barrage of fact.  

The flood story is absurdity piled on absurdity. The behavior of Abraham over his wife and the Egyptian king is appalling.  The evidence for Exodus is almost non-existent, if anything like it happened at all, the Egyptians probably kicked the Hebrews out as illegal immigrants.  

Much of Leviticus and perhaps Deuteronomy is no more than magical ritual with a bit of practical hygiene thrown in. Some of it looks like arrangements for the enrichment of a priestly caste.  

The Assyrians stopped eating pork around 1400BCE, they were polytheists. That was probably some hundreds of years before Moses could have existed.  The design of Moses portable temple is a straight copy of Egyptian temples. And so forth and so on.

Much of the Old Testament is derivative of Sumerian, Egyptian, Babylonian and Assyrian culture.  As you'd expect from the locations of ancient Israel and Judah.  

In Charles Dickens 'Great Expectations' the woman who was jilted at the church and kept her wedding breakfast on the table for years later was based on an actual woman who lived in Sydney, Australia.  In  'Bleak House' some of the characters are based on real people who have been identified.  Thus there is almost as much evidence for the 'truth' of some Dickens novels as there is for some of the Bible.    

Answer 5

Wow knocked down by a blanket of text once again =/ SUMMARIZE PEOPLE!!!!

Answer 6

Have you seen a Joel Osteen video?  All he talks about is money, success, wealth, and just because he uses god to get it, it becomes legitimate.  What hypocrites

Answer 7

I haven't read the whole question (sermon)! I can't be bothered because I already know where you are going!

Fact is you religious people do not think for yourselves - you follow. The words you have written are not truely yours. They belong to someone else that you and your community hold highly - too highly in my opinion.

Religious people have this notion that if everyone believed in God and did the same as them, the world would be a better place. They also believe that the past was better than now.

Each age has its own challenges. In our age disease, hard labour and the rest are no longer an issue. We have more time to think about other things and do other things. This is not necessarily better or worse than before - its not as black and white, good and evil as you religious people put it.

BTW: ALL PEOPLE ARE KIND MOST OF THE TIME. There is no such thing as a truely bad person. Again your religious good and evil thinking has set in. Even murderers are kind most of the time - fact. Kindness is evolutionary trait that has developed to enhance our suvival. But the you wouldn't accept evolution would you?

What you've said about drugs and feeling nothing are not new. In the Victorian Britain everyone did coke and opium, kids were sent to work 16 hour days in cramped conditions for extremely low pay.

Point is life is hard, but you only get one chance at it. We have not changed, we still feel the same however our circustances and environment etc have changed.

You talk about goverments controlling peoples thoughts. Think about it, really think - what is religion really all about????????????  

Answer 8

If you can find a person who possesses all of those qualities, that will be quite an achievement (though pointless). You had better start looking.

oh and by the way calm the f**k down.

Answer 9

erm i have genuine kindness towards my fellow men!!

I gave a tramp a fiver the other day, and told him to get a sandwich with it (even tho it most likley went on booze)

bless him he told me he loved me, and picked me a flower from a tree!

Answer 10

Chill out. The world isn't as bad as you make out.

Answer 11

Luke, Luke, Luke.....You must be very young and naive my boy. Why do you project what must be your need to impress onto others?. A difference of opinion doesn't make a person immoral.

If you look up the word atheist (since it is us that you are attacking) you will find that it is a lack of worship so your argument that we worship all these myriads of other things is nullified just by the term atheist.

Oh and please don't water things down for us - every ridiculous hypocrisy that you spew out just reinforces our own beliefs.