Faith

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Christianity is a belief entirely based on “faith”. “Faith” is a concept that demands absolute acceptance without questioning. Many things called “miracles” within Christianity are accepted in the name of “faith”. Some of the examples are virgin birth, walking on water, rising after death, etc. Yet in any other fields in life, these very same things would be considered by the believers themselves as nonsensical, superstitious and absurd.

That would be ok, provided believers keep their beliefs as personal and private. Most people would respect or at least tolerate what others believe if they are not affected by these beliefs.

Christianity however is an aggressive religion. It demands the one-and-only status for its god and its principles. Christians believe their way and their teachings are superior than any those of everyone else. Christians believe that their religion is the foundation of morality. Christians want to apply their own rules and standards over on top of every other rules and standards.

Christianity undeniably has become the most widespread and powerful religion in countries such as America. Widespread because of the vast number of devout followers; powerful because of the high positions of many of these followers in the governing authorities of these countries.

These devout-Christian-high-ranking government officials often use their own religious views as basis and foundation in their policy making. These are policies are about health matters (cutting stem cell research funding, making abortion illegal for being evil), about sexuality matters (making law against gay marriage because being gay is diseased and dirty), about education matters (teaching children unscientific facts such as the earth is only 6000 years old, dinosaurs existed at the same time with man, man came from dirt while woman came from man’s rib), about personal matters (making law against euthanasia because it’s forbidden by God), etc.

These policies have direct negative effects on the lives of people. Therefore the Christian belief of the believers has direct negative effects on the lives of other people.

Not to mention numerous "normal" Christians walking around with the conviction that non-religious people cannot live a moral life because without God shining the way they would not know what moral is. Many Christians do not say out loud these thoughts but the ways they act and behave show clearly their disdain towards non-religious folks.

People have the right to speak up and object these unwanted interferences and offensive behaviours of these Christian doctrines on their lives.

For that reason, people have the right to speak up against the concept and application of Christian “faith”.

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