That’s the main reason I voted for negative. I don’t think Christianity is any worse inherently than other religions. But I live in a country where Christianity is far more likely to be imposed into my life than any other religion.
I perceive Christianity as better than some other religions, worse than others. Not sure how that maps to the poll responses (both the first and third are true?), so I have not answered the poll.
I already feel at least somewhat negatively about any and all religions. I think I would have more focus on any local religious practices but I think it’s hard to escape the conclusion that Christianity is the largest religion on the planet and therefore has done the most harm.
Not enough poll choices. My stance is that I perceive the arrogant self-righteous anti-science anti-medicine moralizing evangelical sects of Christianity in a more negative light than I do sects of other religions that aren’t openly opressive and willfully pig-ignorant. So, for instance, I view Southern Baptistism and Jehovah’s Witnessism as among the most toxic cults on Earth but Uninerversalism as mostly harmless. So it isn’t really Christianity vs Everything Else, it is sects of any religion with destructive aspect vs sects that are merely quaintly superstitious. I’d prefer the Dali Lama over Franklin Graham, but I’m fine with Fred Rodgers.
Or he might not have had same experiences dealing with Christians that you have?
Being Jewish, I voted negatively, since Christians haven’t done my ancestors a lot of good for the past 1500 years or so. As for why it is worse than other religions, other religions encompass a lot of area. It’s about the same as Islam, but Islam got a lot of ideas about how to spread from Christianity. There are lots of Asian and pagan religions that seem to get along with each other, and the world would be a better place if they were dominant.
I’m also an atheist, but that has nothing to do with my response. Lots of religions can be wrong without being bad.
I didn’t vote; partly because in some cases I can distinguish an emotional reaction from a logical reaction; partly because there are a whole lot of religions I don’t know enough about to have an opinion about them relative to any other religion; and partly because there are a whole lot of different types of Christians.
I have to admit that while I have studied other religions a little and have visited their places of worship (ex. a Buddhist monastery, Moslem mosque, Hindu temple, etc…) I dont know alot of people who are active in those faiths so I really dont know what to say.
I do like the gardens and aesthetics of the Asian religions.
I notice you didn’t ask whether respondents observed any religion at all.
I happen to be a mainline Christian. WE’RE NUMBER ONE! WE’RE NUMBER ONE!
“Mainline”?
Ah-Thank you.
Religion is the opioid crisis of the people.
Maybe in the old days that was true. Nowadays its fast, cheap food and cheap entertainment like tv and the internet.
No seriously. Your quote is from Marx right? But that was in the past. People arent going to riot in the streets if something good is on tv.
I feel like Christianity is a really good religion, maybe above average, but it’s been hijacked by stark raving assholes.
Some of the best people I’ve ever known have been Christians, but that image is permanently tarnished by the fact that they haven’t gone to war against the raving assholes in their sect.
Do you think they are good people because they are Christians, or are they good people who also happen to be Christians?
They’re all crap, but of the major ones Islam is worse. Then Christianity. Religious fundamentalism seems to be attractive to people who score high on authoritarianism, so religion becomes a vehicle for bigotry and oppression.
Jainism isn’t bad.
If someone tells me that they do certain things because their religion demands it, then the religion gets the credit (or blame).
I am a thoroughly lapsed Christian but I know if you follow the literal teachings of Christ then you practice mercy, forgiveness, compassion, generosity, etc. Many people who call themselves Christians reject all of that and choose to focus entirely on things in the Old Testament that have nothing to do with Christ - vengeance, domination, retribution. So even if they call themselves Christian I don’t blame the religion for that, because it’s not Christianity.
I have a negative opinion of christianity for a variety of reasons, not least because I consider it demon worship. Its has a human sacrifice as a central part of the religion - a human sacrifice that the deity they worship approved of and accepted as a good thing! Even putting aside that the deity spent half their holy book killing people and sending plagues and pestilence hither and yon, the fact that he accepts a blood and pain-filled human sacrifice alone demonstrates that he’s evil - or has a blue and orange morality that bears no resemblance to any real moral system. Worshiping such a creature is an immoral act - even if the creature is fictional!
I have much less exposure to and knowledge of other currently-practiced religions, and thus am not aware of whether any of them have similar acts of moral depravity on the part of their subjects of worship, and thus don’t have as strong a revulsion for them and distrust of the morality of their followers. If I knew more about them I might be more repulsed, but for the moment ignorance is apathy.
I didn’t answer because its it really depends on the subclass of the religion. Overall my rule of thumb is that I have no problem with religion, but I do with dogma, and bigotry.
For most branches of Christianity I have somewhere between form benign mediocre to slightly positive view. But when it comes to evangelic dogmatic fundamentalist views, we are right and everyone else is going to hell, my view turns strongly negative.
My view of non-Christian religions within the US is probably mostly positive, partially due to my love of multiculturalism. So learning that I am talking to a Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu is a generally positive revelation. Also that the fact that they are in the minority means that they are likely to be fairly willing to have a live and let live view of others outside their religion.
Outside of the US, however, I realize that each of these religions have the potential to be just as bad if not worse than Christianity in America. Militant theocratic Muslims, Hindus, Jews, and evenBuddhists, can be as bad and often worse than the theocratic evangelicals of the religious right that we have here at home.
So even if you ask for a word association, gut reaction, to Christian vs non-Christain it is going to depend on context and my state of mind at the time.