Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Why don't Atheist attack Muslims or other faiths only Christians and Jews.?
J. Sekulow pointed this out. So I thought yeah they don't. We ought to hear some good arguments here. Let's try to keep the hostilities down here folks. And please no lies. Muslim prayer in public schools has never been challenged by Atheists, but Christian prayer has had law suites brought against it.
39 Answers
- MeLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm not going to lie, I'll admit I'm a little biased towards Christianity, primarily because I'm surrounded by it, and those are the people here to disagree with.
But the thing is, I've never gone out of my way to...attack you, or any Christian. I mean, I don't say 'All Christians are dumbbutts, lol' like some kind of neanderthal. And personally, I've never been the person who sued in those cases about prayer, and not everyone who has sued about prayer in school is an atheist, either. The issue with prayer in school was as much for Muslims and Jews as for me. For the most part, law suits against schools for these matters, or at least the most famous one that made it illegal to enforce prayer in schools, were about schools enforcing their religious preference on their students. Actually, you still have the right to pray in school, as long as it's not disrupting my education (meaning, you're not going to start screaming in tongues while I'm trying to pas trigonometry), you're allowed to pray in our schools. Muslim prayer hasn't really been attacked, because I haven't actually heard of school in this country that forces it's students to pray to mecca.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Christians and Jews for the most part have not done a good job in defending their / our faith. As I've seen here, a lot of Christians are sitting on the fence. They read the Bible verse, "Judge not lest ye be judged and become paralyzed. Or they read about turning the other cheek and take it to mean, be a door mat.
Islam gets a pass because it is anti-American and unlike Christianity, it does not allow forgiveness and it does not allow getting along with other people. There was an article a few months back that stated atheists know more about religion than religious people do. This is false, because so many atheists make the claim that all religions are the same. So much for being knowledgeable because the world's three major religions have different doctrines.
Atheists on the other hand are like the world's politicians. If a Muslim makes demands, they immediately seek to honor it so as not to upset the Muslim who may threaten with death. Christians or Jews do not threaten, but it is time to resist.
- loveLv 61 decade ago
We war not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers. The spiritual warfare comes from the unseen. When we are thankful and praise God for the things he has done. That stops the enemy. So he uses his children because he is the father of lies to stop this behavior. God is not forced. When we call on his name he acts in our defense against these unseen powers. So if Satan can stop it at the root.Our children. He can destroy the family. Children are angry even at a young age they are committing suicide and killing each other. Some are killing their parents. They have lost respect for adults. Teachers sleeping with kids. Kids sleeping with teachers. Satan is having a field day with them. No prayer no power.Much prayer much power. We have served our children up as a slaughter for the power of the demonic world. If a person can believe God does not exist. For reason of their own. And can convince the world order of the same. They can have a vast destruction of peace in the lives of many. Christians have been fearful and refuse to seek God regarding this issue. God can do abundantly above all we can ask or think. If we would come together in agreement. non violence is the answer. Prayer and worship is the solution. Earnest and humble prayer of the Saints of God. Petitions to the government in large numbers. We can stop a lot of things if we work as the Church should be. Why are people heard and arguments won. Because of large numbers.
Because they press on others. Christians should press and keep pressing. Our young is loosing. Even the Atheist can not see it. Sexual depravity is becoming an active thing among the young. My daughter was almost raped by children when she was in the kindergarten. Thank God the teacher found them before it was too late. It is not about attacking. It is about knowing God and studying his word.
Source(s): No one is acting publicly on what is right in the eyes of God. So we all suffer even them. God knows what is best. If we knew we would be giving God the praise. If it was not for him we all would be washed away. Even the Atheist and Muslim. - Robert AbuseLv 71 decade ago
Attack is the wrong word to use.
All godist religions are exactly the same, they are political parties that rule the flock by myth, fantasy and fairytale to get them to do the bidding of the elite classes that rule over them. They are all the blimmin' same.
On another level is the way that religion shapes society. I live a large proportion of my life in a predominately Muslim society, I have no problems there at all, none whatsoever. Life is very nice for me there.
I am a European and in my home continent religion hardly matters at all and I am respected and I am also left unmolested.
In America my wife and I were abused and insulted almost on a daily basis.
As for the Jews, maybe you should look in the non-American news for why they are not exactly the most well-liked group of people on the planet.
- How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- kdanleyLv 71 decade ago
Atheists do attack Muslims, but not face to face or in a predominately Muslim society. Muslims will not put up with that.
Some Jews are atheists (which I think is odd). Also, it is unpopular to ridicule Jews. People who do so are labelled as bigots, Nazis, anti-Semitic, etc. No one wants to be labelled the bad guy.
However, since most atheists live in predominately Christian societies, that is the only one they know anything about. Christianity is the religion they encounter regularly. I have never heard atheists specifically criticize Vishnu, Thor, or Zeus. I never hear them ridicule Eastern philosophy. Why? Probably because they don't deal with those regularly. Additionally, those deities and philosophies don't expect them to repent and follow a path of obedience and humility.
- puredagnastyevilLv 61 decade ago
Boobquake and Draw Muhammad Day: Organized by atheists, directed at Muslims, both widely considered to be attacks, and that makes J. Sekulow wrong.
Have a nice day.
- DemiLv 71 decade ago
The only lawsuits against Christian prayer in schools in my area have been attempts to force prayer into the classroom with little or no regard for the prayers of others. Also, if you're in the US, chances are they don't know enough about faiths other than Christianity to effectively attack them. Do also bear in mind that as other people have mentioned, other faiths are not likely to bother or harass or attempt to convert them willy-nilly. If you don't poke them, they don't poke you. Pretty simple, really.
We have been occasionally poked, but Pagans are notoriously hard to rile so that's no fun for the one doing the poking. We Heathenfolk tend to harbor aggressive tendencies that can violently manifest themselves when we are poked, so that's REALLY not fun for the one doing the poking. However, as I said before, most people don't know enough about any of the Heathen and Pagan faith paths to actually effectively poke at us. We assume they are joking, woefully uneducated or a christian in disguise (who do poke us once in a while but also know nothing about our faith paths for the most part). Also, since we don't seek converts, do not try to enforce aspects of our faiths on others and generally mind our own business no one has any reason to bother us. I think all of these things combined keep us safely below the radar for most people. Which is just how most of us like it, btw.
Source(s): Forn Sed Heathen - who goes there?Lv 61 decade ago
They dare not attack islam for fear of their lives!! (respect out of fear)
Whereas christians are easy prey, christians merely turn the other cheek or do not have a solid
understanding of the Word.
God was 'weighed in the balance' of American justice at the Scopes' monkey trial of July 21, 1925A.D., hence, evolution taught in the public school system.
School 'prayer' was removed form the american public school system in the early 1960s in a federal law suit. (again, 'weighed in the balance')
So as to the accusations of 'indoctrinate our youngsters' or all the others, it just is NOT true. God has been out of americas' schools for 50 years now.(maybe that is why the schools are in crisis)
Picking on the jews is nothing new. It has ALL been done before.
Hinduism - they mock it, no respect, but like the bright colors and ornamentation.
@ME - "I don't go out of my way... to attack" yet, as an atheist, you are here on RELIGION & ....
- 1 decade ago
I think atheist attack Christianity as you put it because (assuming your in America) no other religion has as much influence over the government (i.e abortion,homosexual marriage, etc) and try to push their belief in places it don't belong public schools,politics,or others personal lives where not everyone share their belief.Also Christians can still pray individually I believe atheist problem is when it is mandatory to pray
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
First of all, that is inaccurate, but it is probably fair to say that most atheists who "attack" religion in the U.S., attack Christianity more than they do other religions. It should be simple to figure out why: the majority of the U.S. population is Christian so it is the Christians U.S. atheists have to deal with on a regular basis. Plus, it is Christians who tend to want to push their religion into laws, text books, the classroom, etc., and not the Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc. In addition, the majority of atheists in the U.S. who once believed were Christian or were at least raised Christian, have Christian relatives, etc., therefore they know that religion best. I try not to "attack" something I know little or nothing about.
Disagreement, by the way, is not the same thing as an "attack".
~Ex-fundie-xian; agnostic atheist