Anyone else creeped out by religious people?

Basic religious message:

My cult is of peace and love. But if you don't do what we say, you will suffer the worst punishment ever.

Our church has about 2 million people and we are the only right ones. All the rest of the 6 billion people in the world are wrong and suffer as well.

We hold the right the judge on anyone, because we are the right ones, which makes us better than all the rest.

The gospels we use were written 5 thousand years ago, so it must be right, but we have to twist whatever it says to fit our needs.

It goes on and on...

Any over the top genre can be irritating.

Be it religious, atheist, political, emo, artistic,
environmentalist, liberals, conservatives,
gun haters, gun nuts, joggers, bikers, etc. etc. etc.

Not so much creeped out but more sick and disgusted.

Religion is the destruction of morality and human morals by giving you a free pass to repent. It feeds the ego by creating a chosen one mentality. Religion is anti truth..."Adam and Eve forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge"...your forbidden from discovering truth and if you seek truth like Adam and Eve you will be punished a like.

Nope. "Religious" people don't creep me out at all, propagandists do. Religious people abide by a personal moral and ethical code...keyword being "personal". Propagandists on the other hand, try to force a certain belief on others (via manipulation, intimidation, deceptive persuasion, etc.)for an agenda.

There is a difference between the two in my opinion.

silly rabbit..ethical code...Bawhahahahaaaa

4th century AD: the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine,
executed over 3000 Christians (more than killed in Rome to date),
because they didn't agree with him on the meaning of scripture.

8th century AD: the Christian Charlemagne beheaded 4500 Saxons
in a single morning, because they refused to convert to Christianity.
Holy Roman, Emperor!

12th century AD: the Christian Crusaders decided they wanted to
have Jerusalem for themselves, slaughtering the men, women, and
children there until their horses were up to their knees in blood.

12-15th century AD, Christians had themselves an Inquisition, in
which they tortured and killed other Christians (the Albigensian
Heresies), Jews, Muslims, Homosexuals, literate folks, women
who spoke up, and finally anybody Isabella didn't like. They
were remarkably inventive with torture methods and must
have really loved the sound of agonized screams and the
smell of burning human flesh.

Christian Britain killed 30,000 witches, but Christian Germany,
not to be outdone, killed 100,000.

Vlad the Impaler was a Christian knight.

16th century AD, Christians debated at length about whether
or not Native Americans were actually human, descended of
Adam and Eve, ie born guilty.

"When the Pequots resisted the migration of settlers into the
Connecticut Valley, a party of Puritans surrounded the Pequot
village and set fire to it ... Cotton Mather was grateful to the Lord
that 'on this day we have sent six hundred heathen souls to hell.'"

"The Red race has disappeared from the Atlantic Coast: the tribes
that resisted civilization, met extinction. For my part, I cannot murmur
at which seems to be the effect of divine law ..." said Senator Thomas
Hart Benton of Missouri, in 1846, even though even the ones who'd
become Christians among the '5 civilized tribes' had also recently
been evicted from their homes and farms and sent to Oklahoma.

The terrorist massacre of Rosewood Florida in 1923 represents a trend
of Christian Terrorism against innocent people which includes many
lynchings as well as mass murders.

Of course, all the way to more recent history, the Christian Catholics
and Christian Protestants have only stopped attacking each other
long enough to go after the non-Christians.

Guess who's quoted below:

"I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the
Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the
work of the Lord."

"I say: my Christian feeling tells me that my lord and savior is a warrior"

If you guessed "Adolf Hitler", you guessed right.

How about those things the Christian Serbs did to Muslims? Goes
to show rape and burning others to death never really went out of
fashion with those trendy Christians.

Islam looks like a real easy scapegoat, especially since there are
some real powerful Christians who want all that oil for themselves,
today. They all seem to be right in line, doing what they're told,
and will march over the bodies of babies they've slain, as ordered.
The Bush/Cheney attacks on the USA, Afghanistan and Iraq
are terrorist war crimes. Bush has claimed to be "born again"
as a Christian and that God speaks through him.

Bush/Cheney terrorism has killed a million or so innocent people,
now, in a scant five years, but for some reason the bushkultie is
unable to count the world's worst current war crime as such.

Now let's talk ethical!!

what creeps me out is people who think the world will keep going on with no end.

When the end their life comes then and only then they seek God so what does that tell you.

I need you when I need you...
Hate to say it but that doesn't work

I'm creeped out by people.

What are you saying is anyone who holds to an absolute moral truth. Absolute moral truth by it's nature is divisive.

EXACTLY. Goddamn (pun intended) someone has the balls to say

Obviously you have some personal issues regarding the label of "Christian". Not my problem. My post made no such delineation about any particular "religion".

In all walks of life, and belief groups (political, religious, etc.)there are people who have committed crimes and acts of violence (or some other form of oppression).

Ultimately, the fault lay with the individuals committing those "offenses".

OP: have you considered that they find you equally as creepy? You do realize that you are no different, and certainly no better than they are----right?

I feel bad that their belief system amounts to what someone else tells them to believe, as opposed to thinking for themselves, which takes effort, as well as a clear and open mind.

Religion, in my opinion, is little more than brainwashing to keep people ignorant and under control.

What is really ironic is that the various religions HATE each other, instead of LOVE each other. That blatant hypocrisy is mind-boggling, yet religious people are absolutely blind to it, because they have been brainwashed.

Morality and human morals - OH, so you make up your own??


Repent means to change one's thinking.

"But go rather to the lost (PERISHED) sheep of the house of Israel."

"Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish."

"My people have been lost (PERISHED) sheep; their shepherds have led them astray and caused them to roam on the mountains. They wandered over mountain and hill and forgot their own resting place."

You non believers should be worried

So, WHO told you to "think for yourself"? Hypocrite much?

The Bible starts with the LORD telling them one thing and the serpent telling them another.

A Truth and a Lie.

The Bible is one big story showing people wanting to "do their own will" and "follow their own hearts" and their desires are played to, to ultimately carry out the lies and murder of their "father".

Why should they?

If they are surveying people on hidden cameras, yes.

If they are just praying and minding their own, no.

People want to "belong" to groups and use their jargon and their custom.

They could be muslim, emo, punker, writer, apple-fan, christian, KKK, the list goes on and on.

And yes they tend to be annoying.

Extremists in any form bother me personally. But when it comes to religion, it's often the atheists that are the most extremist, and I could never understand why.

Frankly, I could care less what religion you are and you have every right to believe in whatever your cause. But religious viewpoints are like a venereal disease. Keep it to yourself, and discuss it with someone who wants to "share" what you have to offer. Sorry if that offends, but...

My aunt belongs to a Pentecostal church and is forever trying to recruit. Nothing but a cult, if you ask me, and cults creep me out. :\

Hell yes and "creeped out" exactly describes the impression they make on me. I understand and respect that some of them mean well and try to be good but they go about it entirely the wrong way in my opinion.

Morality is an innate attribute of social animals and is further honed by reason within humans. It doesn't come from prophets or mythical invisible who live in the sky.

Ironically that's how most religious people feel when they are around people with other beliefs or atheists. Atheism is just another religion, it's just one where man is the centre of attention.

anyone who would base their entire lives off a story book and then spend that life trying to convince others that if they dont believe the same story book they will burn, should probably be avoided for safety reasons.

Religious people have no bearing on my life, what creeps me out are people that feel the need to concern themselves with what others beliefs are.

Yes, they annoy the shit out of me. Especially JW with their stupid edited bible and the watch tower books.

What's creepier is someone who has no faith whatsoever.

WTF is faith? Not being part of a cult, does not mean you don't believe in God.

Cult members "have faith" - are you seriously spooked more by decent folks who do not adhere to any religion than you would be by an unhinged loon whose head isn't on straight?

All religions are man-made. You can't escape the world of men via religon. If you think your god and religion is somehow an exception to the long list of failed former religions and gods your mind isn't working very well.