why does everyone hate christianity so much?

Since christians believe tales without evidence, they are not critical thinkers,

Western civilization and it's intellectual processes is the result of Christianity, no trivializing or escaping that.

they did invent Al-gebra

What contributions have they made in the last 600 years or so?

Western civilization and it's intellectual processes is the result of Christianity, no trivializing or escaping that.

Kindness, culture, to name two things.

Since christians believe tales without evidence, they are not critical thinkers, and it's easy to get them to believe lies like WMD.
Why do christians hate everyone else?

One tradition (Judeo, Christian)has produced more equality, productivity, higher standards of living and greater individual freedom than any other.

God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus"

More than say, Buddhism?

I could never hate or dislike any of you as much as you seem to me and my faith.

Voltaire might be the other leg.

I could never hate or dislike any of you as much as you seem to me and my faith. I couldn't ever really imagine having feelings like Riley's. Couldn't bring myself to harbor such hurtful fellings towards another. Must be pretty heavy for all of you to carry around.

^^^^ that's a pretty damning personal acusation. Got any evidence to back that up? I looked through some of his old posts and saw nothing remotely resembling such a mindset. You probably owe him an apology.

And so, with all of this in mind, folks, I offer you my revised list of the Two Commandments:

First:
•THOU SHALT ALWAYS BE HONEST AND FAITHFUL, ESPECIALLY
TO THE PROVIDER OF THY NOOKIE.

And second:

•THOU SHALT TRY REAL HARD NOT TO KILL ANYONE, UNLESS,
OF COURSE, THEY PRAY TO A DIFFERENT INVISIBLE AVENGER
THAN THE ONE YOU PRAY TO.

Two is all you need, folks. Moses could have carried them down the hill in his pocket. And if we had a list like that, I wouldn't mind that brilliant judge in Alabama displaying it prominently in his courthouse lobby. As long he in­cluded one additional commandment:

•THOU SHALT KEEP THY RELIGION TO THYSELF!!!

From George Carlin – When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (2004)

Western civilization and it's intellectual processes is the result of Christianity, no trivializing or escaping that.

I can't see what isn't to like about that.

is much of what you feel/believe about Christianity based on personal experience with friends and family who are Christians, or your politcal worldview driven by media, reading,, etc....

Eph.6:12
Eph.6:1-18 (KJV)
[1] Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
[2] Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
[3] That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
[4] And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
[5] Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
[6] Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
[7] With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
[8] Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
[9] And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
[10] Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
[11] Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
[12] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
[13] Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
[14] Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
[15] And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
[16] Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
[17] And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
[18] Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

John 15:18
John.15:1-19 (KJV)
[1] I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
[2] Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
[3] Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
[4] Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
[5] I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
[6] If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
[7] If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
[8] Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
[9] As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
[10] If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
[11] These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
[12] This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
[13] Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
[14] Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
[15] Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
[16] Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
[17] These things I command you, that ye love one another.
[18] If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
[19] If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Matt. 24:12
Matt.24:1-14 (KJV)
[1] And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
[2] And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
[3] And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
[4] And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
[5] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
[6] And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
[7] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
[8] All these are the beginning of sorrows.
[9] Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
[10] And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
[11] And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
[12] And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
[13] But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
[14] And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

So who's side are you on? HaShem's or Lucifer's? No matter what you do you're taking a side whether you know it or not, want to or not.

I stand with HaShem Adonai Elohim: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

How about you?

Anti-Science? I have two doctorates, one in bone physiology with publications in three journals and I lecture to grand rounds at my local hospital. I'm a scientist every day, living it out in private surgical practice. I love Science. I can draw you the Kreb's Cycle if you want. I did malate. Its my favorite.

The life of a person who sincerely believes in Christianity and walks a life with Jesus Christ compelling him or her should be marked by the following:

Love
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness and Self Control
(I can't see what isn't to like about that. Let alone hate, despise, dislike, ridicule or be bothered by)

No way around it. Though we all sometimes fail to let these things shine, it should be the overwhelming course of our lives.

I am currently working on my Masters degree in theology.

Who can't love a God who says things like "your sins are forgiven you for his namesake" (I John 2:12)

or "In all these things we are more than conquerors" (Romans 8:37)

or how about, "This is the promise that He has promised you, eternal life" (I John 2:25)

A lot of harm has been done in the world in the name of Christianity, Most of these so called christians can't tell you how many gospels are in the canon (4). It's too bad that the misbehaviour of some is assumed to be the standard of conduct for the many. In the first century Christianity was one unified faith, Today there are more different"religions" than there are stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. If people got away from the traditions that have been handed down to them and got back to the one standard of faith and practice, The Bible, then we wouldn't see questions like "why does everyone hate christianity so much".

Science is not a belief, institution, group of people or a book.

Many people today who claim to be secular have placed their faith in science.

The key word is SHOULD. The problem is that it is so RARE. In reality, I find such people *by my personal experience* filled with hate for others, envy of others, blame of others, biased treatment of others. That's a daily experience.

Christians have a very very long history of intolerance of others, to the point of killing and enslaving.

is much of what you feel/believe about Christianity based on personal experience with friends and family who are Christians,

"What chance is there for the redemption of the Negro?" Young responded, "The Lord had cursed Cain's seed with blackness and prohibited them the Priesthood."[1]

From 1849 to 1978, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) had a policy against ordaining black men to the priesthood, and forbidding black men and women from taking part in ceremonies in LDS temples. Associated with this policy were various statements by church leaders tying the policy to their view of scripture, and opining that black men and women had inherited the curse of Ham. In 1978, President Spencer W. Kimball, the leader of the LDS church, declared in a statement known as "Official Declaration—2" that the ban had been lifted.

I don't hate christians for damning me. I do a pretty good job of that myself.

I don't hate any religion. I don't hate the lack of religion. I have no religion myself, and yet oddly I hang around this thread.

Me and a bunch of other godless people... now why is that????

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

DMT

Prayer in Schools. All kids of all religions should be allowed to pray in schools at any time and this shouldn't bug you much since it seems Christian prayer in schools is on the way out.

NO

emphatically no

private schools, ok, pray all day if you want, the parents are picking up the tab

but not in taxpayer financed Public Schools,,,,no

no way ANY religion should be allowed, in any form,, per our god damn Constitution

"Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."

Judge: Baby can't be named 'Messiah'

A Tennessee judge has ordered the parents of a 7-month-old boy to rename their son "Martin" instead of "Messiah," CNN affiliate WBIR reports. "The word Messiah is a title and it's a title that has only been earned by one person and that one person is Jesus Christ," Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew said. Jaleesa Martin, the child's mother, told WBIR that she intends to appeal the decision.

Kent hovind did around 100 debates with evolutionists and basically never lost. He will debate anyone and his expense and the debate can be on whatever topic and context his opponent wants. He offered to pay Richard Dawkins to debate him but the whimp turned him down. If Dawkins "knows" evolution is a fact then what does he have to lose. He is scared about it somehow and he should admit it or accept the debate. You should watch kent hovind's debate with Mikel shermer from skeptic magazine. you've probably never even watched a creation/evolution debate let alone done some actual studying of creation from a creation scientist perspective. I have studied evolution and know how evolution is supposed to work, and I find it pretty boring and its just like reading the princes and the frog story. But I'd like a good answer on this.... If you don't learn the evidence for creation then why should I learn about evolution?

that would be a good thing for you squishy. you like what you think is science gives you... evolution. we can makes your own morals because we're just advanced animals right? no moral standard expect what we think is right. and you hate the questions we ask. thats what science does, ask questions and if someone is to close-minded to even question evolution or anything for that matter than they by definition are against science and the scientific method. and btw that whole little phrase is just plain dumb. yes by doing scientific research people make discoveries that make life easier and explain things. and people like what science gives them. but what does evolution have to do with this which was exactly what you were referring to, we'rent you? evolution has nothing to do with science. and if you go around believing that because someone doesn't believe in evolution they dont like science, then you have no idea what science is. and id like to know what questions science asks that I dont like. ask me one. you have to think a litte before you posts ignorant posts. PLEASE!

suishy... like most people in america and on this forum will agree you have an extreme twisted and dangerous view of america (and how it should be). when you were a kid (maybe a little before) people would have laughed at richard Dawkins and most people didn't even think twice that evolution was a fairy tail. you live with a minority in California and I feel for you.

There are so many examples like the ones below so there is no way they are all fake! Man didn't coin the term dinosaur until the 1800s but many ancient cultures referred to a "dragon". These examples are all hundreds of years old so how did man know about dinosaurs if there is a gap between them and man? Evolutionist need the gap to prove the fossil records are millions of years old. Any breakdown of that disproves all their theories of an old earth and they need that for the evolution argument!
http://www.icr.org/article/6041/
http://www.cryptomundo.com/bigfoot-report/temples-dinosaurs-carved-in-stone/
http://www.apologeticspress.org/APContent.aspx?category=9&article=2423
and how does soft tissue survive for 68 million years???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Higby_Schweitzer
The Urey/Miller experiment never produced all the amino acids did it? And it was done in laboratory conditions! And how did the chemicals get together in the correct order and proper sequence? The first cell would have needed hundreds of thousands of DNA code pairs to just to come to life! And where did the information come from so it knew how to reproduce copies of itself? Chance? Really? The cell evolved in water but the DNA comes apart quickly in water so the numerous systems that organiisms use to protect the DNA would not have evolved quickly enough! Extinct before it started!
Then there is "irreducible complexity". This is the interdependence of the various function of all organisms. If you go to start your car and there is no spark at the right time it won't start. Organisms are the same way. Our blood has 17 steps to thicken and form a clot when we are cut. All the systems need to be there and all the steps need to be taken and in the correct order or the clot happens to quick in our bodies or to late outside our bodies and we die! We would be extinct before we started to evolve! If evolution has slow step-by-step stages what information caused it to change how a system works or what job it performs. And where are the various stages in the fossil records?
The wood frog shuts down his heart, breathing and kidneys for months which causes 2/3 of his body to freeze in the winter. If it happens the first time and the systems which allow him to recover are not evolved then he is extinct! But if he had never froze before how did evolution know he needed it???
An Australian aquatic frog shuts down it stomach acids forming an incubator and eats its eggs and 8 weeks later full grown frogs emerge from the mothers mouth. If she ate her eggs the first time with out having evolved the ability to turn off acid production she is extinct! If she had not done it before then how would evolution know she needed it??? Where did the information to evolve correctly come from???
That is just 2 frogs from a huge family of frogs and we are discovering more species all the time. Look at all the other animal traits out there!
Take the giraffe for instance. He has valving in his neck which helps pump blood up to his head but if he puts his head down to drink his arteries in his head should explode but they don't because the valves clamp down reducing the pressure. If just one little part of this system doesn't work he is extinct. In fact, he never would have evolved to that point. Explain to me exactly how millions of chemical reactions need to happen without added information to form all the unique properties in the animal kingdom as well as mankind.
Evolution is intentionally so fluid that the backers can modify it to encompose all kinds of things such as adaptation. If there was adaptation where are all the fossil records of the half formed rejects that that passed their genes on to a better generation? And if they are half formed how did they survive and why did natural selection allow them to even survive long enough to reproduce?
One of the ideas of evolution has been that the hammer,anvil, and stirrup bones moved from the jaw of reptiles into the ear channel of a human as we evolved. How did we survive so long with no hearing and likely no jaw! Thats a half formed fossil I would love to see!!!
The devil is in the details and when we really get down to the details we start understanding that evolution omits most of the details and simply can't explain them which makes it far from sound science. Its a religion!

this is all evidence that they will never listen to. maybe im to negative.
there a literally hundreds of examples like this. certain woods peckers form a glue on their tongue to capture insects and then a chemical reaction happens and dissolves the glue so the wood pecker can eat the insects. if the wood pecker evolve the ability to create the glue but obviously didn't evolve the ability to dissolve it yet, he would be stuck with insects on his tongue and would go extinct.

So at the risk of you thinking I'm a bigger wacko than you probably already do... Yeah, I'm cool with believing that all species have been intact from the beginning.

I think it's perfectly fair actually. If you claim to be Christain then we can assume many things about you.

Evolution: Micro...yes. Undeniable and a beautiful thing. Macro....between species. I know for a fact you can't prove this one, you're gonna need to show me the "jump."

Carnivorans evolved from miacoids about 55 million years ago (Mya) during the late Paleocene.[4] Then, about 50 Mya, the carnivorans split into two main divisions: caniforms (dog-like) and feliforms (cat-like). By 40 Mya, the first clearly identifiable member of the dog family, Canidae, had arisen. Called Prohesperocyon wilsoni, it was found in what is now southwestern Texas.

I always assumed that the differences between the major religions were cultural adaptations to teach a similar moral code through fables.

ANYONE with more than a 3rd grade edu is LYING if they claim belief In a 6000 year old earth

There is no middle ground. They're liars.

Why should we think any religion was started with pure motives

Why should we think any religion was started with pure motives?

The Book of Mormon states that Negroes are the marked descendants of Ham.