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Being critical of Christianity is not being at war......
Lol! Yeah seriously...its not like I act any different toward Christianity than I do other religion...I treat every one with equal ridicule
It just so happens Christians impose their religion on me more than any other religious group. And those every once in a while scary Jehovah's witnesses that won't stop ringing your front door bell if they know you're home.
Once someone imposes their religion on me, you should understand I don't want to be saved by you and you're not doing me anything but a disservice.
I believe more in the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster. To quote someone else...all hail his noodleness!
There are groups at "war with Christianity." The main two I can think of are Radical Islam and Communism. Also some of the more extreme Hindu Nationalists and Buddhist Nationalists are also "at war with Christianity."
Radical Islam feels that Christianity tends to produce a kind of "schizophrenia." Sayyd Qutb felt that Christians end up separating Church and State so much that they/we pull ourselves in different directions. For an example if, as a Christian, you believe divorce-and-remarriage can only be allowed "on Biblical grounds" then how can you be a Justice of the Peace? After all you'll be marrying divorced people whose divorce was not Biblically valid. And how can you pay taxes to a system that might not be compatible to Christianity? To Qutb the idea of "give to Caesar what is Caesar's" is rank hypocrisy. It requires the Christian to "serve two masters" or have contradictory values in public versus private. Islam, in Radical Islamic thought but sometimes in regular Islam too, is everything. There is to be no separation of "Islam and state" because Islam is the guiding ideology of the state. It's not the state being ruled by clerics, at least not in Radical Sunni, but the state having Islam as its law. From this perspective even Radically ultra-conservative Christian theories of "Throne and Altar" create a tension he, and most Islamists except maybe Shiites, find unworkable. I believe some Radical Muslims also feel Christianity encourages idolatry and drunkenness. (As I recall Christian-ran bars and liquor stores are a big target for Islamists in the Mideast)
As I recall Buddhist and Hindu Nationalist opposition to Christianity is largely based in anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism. Radical Islam's is too, to an extent, but it has other elements some of which I went over. Anyway to Buddhist (like in Sri Lanka or Burma) or Hindu Nationalists Christianity is often seen as a suspicious remnant of foreign power. Possibly even a "Fifth Column" attempting to undermine things. Although in Burma/Myanmar I think it's maybe more that the regime sees Christianity (and Islam too) as an irritant in efforts to create a united Burmese identity. The Christians in Myanmar are largely ethnic minorities and by remaking them as Buddhists it's hoped, I suppose, to make their assimilation easier.
As for atheists here I don't think they would see themselves as "at war with Christianity", but certainly several of them are explicit in seeing opposition to Christianity as important. One possibility is the old-school Catholic belief of "error has no rights." Atheism is true and as "servants of the Truth" they feel compelled to route out "falsehood" as they see it. For others they are working through a possibly abusive upbringing or community that contained Christianity and that they associate to Christianity. It's "apostate testimony", or "apostate rage", that you see in most religions and maybe even in diet plans or self-help groups. Although at least two atheists here I don't think are strongly opposed to Christianity or to "de-conversion."
People of any religious background who are at war with another religion are usually insecure in their religious beliefs, or are using religion to act-out some personal issue that has nothing to do with religion, or are just plain brainwashed by their respective religious tribe. Religious hatred is everywhere, and Christians are no exception, although I've noticed over the years that Buddhists are probably the least obnoxious of any religious group. I think they're onto something.
Go and take a peek at the Christianity forum and then ask....
Why are you at war with yourselves?
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