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Would you rather have 10 nasty violent believers or 10 kindly noble non-believers living in your community?
* a petty thought just struck me... being Buddhist, i was wondering would I rather have 10 mean and nasty Buddhist in my community or 10 kindly and noble Non-believers of my faith? After a bit of consideration I think I prefer to have the latter.
1. What about you guys and girls of various faiths in the R+S... would you rather have 10 nasty believers of your faith ( christians, taoists, buddhists, muslim, catholics, hindu etc etc ) or 10 kindly non-believers ( atheists or individuals of other faiths and belief systems?) living in and around your community?
2. I understand that this is just at best a hypothetical question, as no one is either all good nor all bad... but my question here is based on the general norm and mean. Say... 10 Mother Teresa-like people or 10 Hitler-like people for example...
thx for entertaining my curiousity.
WOW... thx everyone. It is refreshing to read individual insights from both atheists and believers of various faiths without turning to personal attacks. thanks... cant wait to read more answers
12 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
10 kindly noble non-believers. But if there were 10 nasty, violent Christians on my street, they wouldn't really be Christians; they would just be people who say they're Christian but who obviously don't follow Christ's teachings.
- RikkiLv 61 decade ago
I do not practice within an organized religion, although I was brought up in one. The answer to your question is very simple for me. First of all, I don't care what religion a person is. We are all children of the same creator.
I would never like to live around 10 nasty people, period. I love being around people who are kind and generous enough to go out of their way to help others without needing recognition or some other kind of reward. What a person says with their mouth has no meaning if it is not demonstrated in deed. This world would be paradise if we paid less attention to the first example and tried to emulate the second.
- SnarkLv 71 decade ago
The latter, most definitely.
Since I am a non-believer, I will modify it to myself -
I'd rather have 10 kind noble believers in my neighborhood than 10 nasty violent atheists.
- 5 years ago
i've got self assurance it to extra often than not be a revolt against what has come before and an attempt to redefine. All infants have self assurance they understand extra effective than their mum and dad and that they are invincible. I even have not considered something previous anecdote to assist your hypothesis; in certainty I even have considered the different. i've got self assurance the worst revolt/habit exists the place perception in not something does besides. i'm not talking approximately Atheism as quickly as I say that, besides the reality that that nothingness is oftentimes there too, I propose no destiny, no solutions, no component in it(existence) in any respect. in case you weren't taught any morals in any respect (or in particular undesirable ones first of all) i'm exceptionally optimistic your habit will uniformly be worse than being taught an outstanding set of ones for regardless of reason they have been taught interior the 1st place. in case you detect a sprint prognosis stored faraway from time table i'd be interested in a glance... yet i can't think of somebody getting investment for this sort of element without a minimum of an implied time table. would you suspect or disbelieve it the two way?
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
My religion is Christianity which is based on two laws love God and your neighboor.If it's a real believer he/she wouldn't be nasty. But if there was so called nasty belivers i would rather have the oher calm unbelivers.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
You can't have "nasty violent" in the same description as "believer". You can, however, have "kindly" and "non-believer" in the same description. I am so happy that the Lord is going to judge us of our hearts and according to our knowledge.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
lolz well i already hate violent believers so i guess i have to say kindly and noble nonbelievers cause im an athiest so it wouldnt bother me lolz but its just i hate it when ppl try to shove religion down my throat....
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The 10 mean spirited believers....you have to get entertainment somehow...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I'd rather have 10 kind none believers.
- Starstuff58Lv 51 decade ago
Definitely the non-believers.
I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said that " an atheist neighbor neither picks my pocket or breaks my leg. "