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Originally Posted by hwnorth  Amber - just my opinion ... many other religions do not chastise against other beliefs or lessen them... by your own words "Mormons, atheists, agnostics, wiccans, whatever do not follow the true God" you do just that. Who is anyone to say that "their god" is the only god or the true god?
I think the Christian church has done the damage all on its own and has earned the disrespect it gets... there is no one to blame but itself.
As for the obly religion shown disrespect... I disagree, many other religions are shown their share of disrespect... most predominate I would saw would be JW.
When a church stands by ideas that are ancient and dont work with todays society, people are bound to disagree.... when the church allows atrocities like have happened ... the respect diminishes further
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Jehovahs Witness are shown so much disrespect, in my opinion, because they bang on doors and shove their beliefs down people's throats. Also because they feel they are so much better than the rest of the world because they
think they are part of an imaginary chosen 144,000. If Baptists, Methodist, Wiccans, whatever banged on my door continually and shoved down my throat that they are part of a chosen elite and I must do this only to find out I might not be part of the 144,000, I'd be slightly upset myself.
The Christian church has
not done the damage itself. No, I must retract that sentence. It has, but not how you think. What has done the damage is fake, pious Christians. The Church's only part in the blame is continuing to allow them to act the way they are, and not show them the correct way to act. So many churches these days are more worried about losing members than showing their members the right way to live.
As for the church standing by outdated material...that's how we believe. And we (the church) are actually very modernized. We could be so outdated that we still stone adulterers, murderers, still only eat certain types of food. The church today (without getting into another subject) is very much carnal and modernized. That would explain the different denominations and Bibles.
What atrocities are you talking about? It's still a tad early for me.