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Has anyone mocked you for your beliefs?
Posted by brianomaracroft • 11/02/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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I'm curious. Has anyone ever made fun of you for your beliefs? I'm not speaking specifically of religious beliefs--although that could be part of it. On the flip side, I have been mocked in the past, by a dear friend, for doubting the existence of God.
Which of your beliefs has been pilloried by others?
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I believe that we live life for death. No ones mocked me but when I wrote a blog post about it a few people said they thought my ideas very strange.-
Nothing wrong, really, with ideas others think are strange...just opens up the debate.
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That happens any time you have that type of discussion.
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Only on Blog Catalog. I've heard a lot about Christians being harassed in various arenas and I honestly never believed it because I'd never seen or experienced it...until I joined these discussion forums. It's the only place I've ever been attacked, insulted and called names for being a Christian.-
I think there's a fine line between (a) good-natured ribbing based on differences and (b) being insulting. The former is okay, I think...the latter is not.
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I don't consider being called "pathetic and delusional" good natured.
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Nor would I...well, delusional might fit for me. Come to think of it, pathetic might as well. But I agree...there's little to be gained from name-calling.
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The thing that bothers me the most is the way that people who are passionately anti-Christian allow their brains to shut down around Christians and don't even realize that they've stopped thinking or responding intelligently. For instance, I've had people go off on long rants about how wrong I am to want to outlaw abortion--except I don't...they heard I was Catholic and made that assumption and then had the fight all by themselves. Ditto same sex marriage. In fact, I am against same sex marriage, but few anti-Christians ever hear the second sentence, which is that the reason I'm against same-sex marriage is that I'm against state-sponsored marriage altogether and would like to see the system abolished. There's a certain irony in people who are blindly making assumptions and responding to things that haven't been said ranting about how someone else has "surrendered independent thought".
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I see your point. I guess for me the flipside are the people who respond to an issue I've raised by responding with something like, "Jesus will protect and guide you in all his blessedness." This, to me, seems presumptuous...it allows for only one variety of faith, and does not at all allow for the absence of such. Whenever issues of religious belief come up, I think if a person engages in the debate, they need to try to listen to the other points of view. Christians and non-Christians are guilty of being myopic at times. Do you agree?
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I think most people can be "myopic" at times, but personally I've never experienced anyone but anti-Christians (as distinguished from the larger pool of non-Christians) being so eager to make up an argument, attribute it to someone who hasn't spoken a word, and then attack that person based on the argument that was nothing but a figment of their own imaginations.
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Wow, Madame, thanks for expressing so well the same things I have experienced. I've also been attacked for beliefs I don't even hold, once I say I'm a Christian. I think I'm being careful in not forcing my beliefs on others, but merely responding to their questions about why I believe, but it does seem like some people are purposely picking a fight.
Brian, you raise a good point in that sometimes people respond from their points of view without understanding how vastly different other views are. I have to admit I'm guilty of that myself sometimes. Thanks for the reminder to hear someone out and not tear down what they think just because I think something different. -
@MadameX: Mocking other people for their beliefs' is the Georgia state sport.
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I have been mocked indirectly by the Tavistock (brainwashing) Institute -
Once, then he sent me to hell. -
OMG try mentioning any conservative ideal in Broward County, Florida, the hell of the earth. Remember, this is the home of the hanging Chad.-
Isn't Broward County where most of the "Cops" show is filmed? There are certainly some unique folks on that show. Are you saying they ARE conservative or they are not?
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I'm saying this place is as liberal as it gets, almost. And yes, I've seen dozens of cops episodes live on location in Broward County.
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Nobody knows what my beliefs are. I don't even know.-
That's ridiculous.
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Well, that would make them harder to mock, so there's that...
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No, it's beliefs that are ridiculous.
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Dude, I was mocking you for your beliefs, just to prove it could be done despite your refusal to commit to any.
Now you've gone and complicated things by expressing a belief that beliefs are ridiculous, which is as much a belief as any of the beliefs you're dismissing... -
Not knowing what one believes is not a belief, even if you believe it to be one. (Same thing with an absence or indifference to belief.)
And I did get the joke and was being frivolous in return. -
"Not knowing what one believes" is not the same thing as believing that "beliefs are ridiculous". The first, I agree, is not a belief. The second clearly is.
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Yes, by trying to engage in a little repartee I compromised my original statement, which nevertheless represents my real sense of things.
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Good god...That got very complicated very quickly... -
It's all persiflage.
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Hummm ...Not knowing what one believes is not a belief, even if you believe it to be one. (Same thing with an absence or indifference to belief.)
Funny how it all comes down to riddles, again.
Something to think about, ....in an oddly sort of way. -
Angie: It's all wordplay in the end, wandering in the maze of language. That's why I don't take any of this seriously and just enjoy the repartee.
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Why is that line from the Rush song stuck in my head: "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice?"
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Only my MIL who says things like this to me when someone is sick (for example): "If you could pray to... well, whomever or whatever it is that you believe in... that would be great."
It's more my open-mindedness that she objects to vs. sharing her steadfast belief in a "one true God."
Other than that, people are usually pretty cool... especially since they know I am not judging them in any way. Even if I don't necessarily "believe" the same concepts as some of my friends/family, I love and appreciate the positive energy faith can bring in general. All good. -
Not really, well, I'm like a superhero, i have a double life. People who live in Egypt (that's where I am) don't know I'm an atheist so I don't get mocked for that (it's more likely that I get in prison than mocked though)
And people on the internet seem not to make fun of me being an atheist either, they respect that for some reason. -
I believe in 2Tim. 4:10
"For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe"
and 1Tim. 2:4
3.)"For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;4.)Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth."
Christianity mocks these verses to no end. -
I don't think I've been mocked as such...I've been argued against, and I've argued in my turn but I'm not sure it would be mocking.
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I've been mocked by believers for not believing their claim that a god exist. -
yea..i'm a serious believer in Family guy and people mock me for it-
Sorry to hear that (giggity)
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Ha.. great one
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I've been mocked for my belief in God. On the flipside, I have seen others mocked for not believing in God. It's pretty much a two way street. You just have to be strong in what you believe and not let others get to you. -
Yes, in 1976 I was called a Jesus Freak... funny thing was,I was more interested in Buddhism -
Yep. I lumped all major religions together (Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern)and decided that they all (pretty much all) agree on three things: Don't lie, don't cheat and don't steal. Interestingly, they don't all agree on murder, adultery, or sloth, among others.
So, I've founded a new church: "The Big 3." (Pass the plate...) Of course, like every religious person I've ever met, I use the cafeteria approach when necessary. I'll lie...in bed too long, cheat...death, and steal...hearts and kisses.
(DaniG fastens on her helmet) So go ahead...mock me. I know you can't resist...
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Sorry Dani I'll have to anti-mock you.
Well said.
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Have I been mocked for my beliefs?
Oh gosh, more times then I could count on, especially from the person that sits right next to me at the office. Does it get to me? Naah, not really, I am use to it and don't even care so much. -
I don't know if this qualifies as mocking exactly, but I've been noticing for awhile how so many people feel very entitled to comment to total strangers about weight, food choices, clothing choices,smoking, etc. The comments are usually very negative,and quite rude. -
"Only the truth hurts." -French folk-saying
"Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so did their fathers to the false prophets." -Luke 6: 26
In general, if something is worth saying, it is also worth attacking, and it's sometimes easier to attack the person who says it.-
you are an idiot. did that hurt?
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No, just told I'd be condemned to eternal damnation if I didn't change them. -
I have received hate mail due to some issues I have discussed on my blog, does that count?-
I would think...
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and there I thought I was just popular amongst the religious right wing and homophobes.
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When my grandpa was alive he used to get very frustrated with me because I didn't share his opinion that Protestants were the cause of all the world's problems. Didn't matter if it was war, famine, the wind blew the wrong way, he had gas in the morning, it was all the Protestant's fault.-
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I usually mock myself first. It sorta takes the wind out of their sails. -
Self-deprecation is sooooo underrated.
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I've been mocked for my belief in kharma. But because of my belief in kharma it had little effect! -
Oh yeah.... Loads of people have mocked my vegetarianism. What's with that?
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Sitting here with my cheeseburger, pondering your comment...
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My sides are splitting
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Yes, by the ones who come by knocking on the door every Sunday.-
I use the door-to-door faith peddlars as the starting point to a story about loss of faith in my book. It's like they have hangover radars.
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Yes they do happen to just all of a sudden turn up at the right time.
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Yes, I am conservative but I believe that what I believe should not control what others believe. I have someone in my family who is very liberal and they think I am ignorant because I am conservative. They mock me because I believe to be truly free we need less government control of our lives. Freedom is not free it involves self control and responsiblitity. We need to be willing to allow others voice their beliefs without attempts to control what they say because it differs than our beliefs. -
I get mocked for my briefs all the time. -
My beliefs are unmockable....................What are my beliefs? I won't tell you
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If you listen to mockeries of the people around you about your choices, decisions, judgments, and beliefs, they just make things worse. Standing firm on what you believe is what matters. -
Yes! BC'er are guilty of it. Tell me, you are gonna punish them, aren't you?
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