Zone1 Why Do People Hate God?

[ChristisKing]

I have two answers to this question. The first one being for why people hate Trump, they can't stand law and order. If one wants to follow Jesus then they have to turn away from following their sin and follow His rules instead. Sure it doesn't save you, but it's the reflection of your salvation.


The second answer being that they have some anger and hurt for what's going on in their lives. They want to blame somebody, so they take it out on God. Those are just my answers though and I was curious if anybody has answers of their own.

 

[Lisa558]

Why are you associating hate for God with a lack of belief in Jesus?

Practicing Jews love Gd and say the phrase “Baruch Hashem!” all the time.

My brisket turned out great? Baruch Hashem!
My child’s fever broke? Baruch Hashem!
The bullet only grazed Trump’s ear? Baruch Hashem!

 

[ChristisKing]

Why are you associating hate for God with a lack of belief in Jesus?

Practicing Jews love Gd and say the phrase “Baruch Hashem!” all the time.

Sorry that's the Christian belief that God the Father and Jesus Christ are one entity. If you're Jewish that doesn't really apply.

 

[Lisa558]

Also, they are not Jesus’ laws. They are Gd’s laws, which Jesus said are binding. He taught traditional Jewish values, albeit with a spin sometimes.

 

[ChristisKing]

Also, they are not Jesus’ laws. They are Gd’s laws, which Jesus said are binding. He taught traditional Jewish values, albeit with a spin sometimes.

My point is why do people hate God in general?

 

[Lisa558]

ChristisKing

I understand, based on what you just said, that Christians do not distinguish between God’s laws and what Jesus said, since they are one and the same.

To us, Jesus was an observant Jew who was teaching Jewish values. His famous “Golden Rule” was what Hillel taught, and Jesus admired Hillel.

*I’m not sure if Hillel had already died by the time Jesus was born, but if their lives did overlap, Hillel was an old man and Jesus a small child.

 

[dblack]

My point is why do people hate God in general?

I don't really know anyone who hates God. I don't believe in God, so it's a moot point for me. But the part about Trump being a president of law order is a freaking joke. He doesn't do law and order. He does arbitrary executive orders and spreads chaos.

 

[Lisa558]

My point is why do people hate God in general?

Bear in mind you’re asking someone who loves Gd…..

…that said, I think liberals see loyalty to Gd as a threat to loyalty to the government. They want the government to be the highest authority.

 

[Lisa558]

I don't really know anyone who hates God. I don't believe in God, so it's a moot point for me. But the part about Trump being a president of law order is a freaking joke. He doesn't do law and order. He does executive orders and spreads chaos.

You must be a Democrat.

Trump stopped the invasion of illegals while Biden incentivized them, and Biden issued like 50 EOs his first day in office, reversing anything and everything Trump did.

 

[ChristisKing]

Bear in mind you’re asking someone who loves Gd…..

…that said, I think liberals see loyalty to Gd as a threat to loyalty to the government. They want the government to be the highest authority.

Actually, God is for the government so that's the opposite. We're supposed to obey the law of the land.

 

[Lisa558]

Actually, God is for the government so that's the opposite. We're supposed to obey the law of the land.

This is true, but leftists don’t understand that.

 

[ChristisKing]

This is true, but leftists don’t understand that.

True, good point.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

People hate themselves.


When they hate themselves, they hate everything.

 

[Mac1958]

Most folks don't "hate God", but they're certainly not very fond of the people who claim to follow him. Those "Christians" give religion a bad name every single day.

And anyone who claims to follow Jesus but also supports a man who is essentially the opposite of Jesus have clearly lost their way. That would be another problem.

 

[Lisa558]

People hate themselves.


When they hate themselves, they hate everything.

It IS true that leftists are very hateful, angry people - which is why they scream “Hitler!!” at people who voted for Trump.

 

[Foxfyre]

I have two answers to this question. The first one being for why people hate Trump, they can't stand law and order. If one wants to follow Jesus then they have to turn away from following their sin and follow His rules instead. Sure it doesn't save you, but it's the reflection of your salvation.


The second answer being that they have some anger and hurt for what's going on in their lives. They want to blame somebody, so they take it out on God. Those are just my answers though and I was curious if anybody has answers of their own.

I don't think it is a rejection of Jesus so much as a rejection of any sort of supernatural power. Many people who reject Jesus are almost always also very antisemitic or otherwise derogatory of the religious of whatever faith while many others who reject Jesus are very caring, responsible, nonjudgmental

And I don't think it is a result of rejecting law and order. Many agnostics and Atheists here on USMB who reject the concept of there being a Creator, law giving God but are strongly law and order people.

Those who make fun of believers and disparage God with hateful or mocking metaphors, are just hateful people period. There is no other explanation for those who who try to destroy another's beliefs. I think some groups claiming to be Christian or Muslim or Buddhist or Hindu etc. etc. base their religious beliefs on completely ridiculous or unworthy or wrong headed religious figures or concepts, but as a Christian I would never try to tear down their faith. Judge on what people DO, not what they believe and all that.

But people who hate God are usually people who believe God let them down or was presented to them in a particularly ugly way or who can't wrap their minds around a Creator of everything and why it would not be that Creator's fault when things go very bad. Thinking of the one who rejected God because a God that controls everything would have given him the cancer he is battling.

That's just the ones who aren't just naturally hateful toward anything believers enjoy.

 

[Woodznutz]

People (who) hate God because he doesn't give them every shiny thing they pray for. Worse, God wants them to change their behavior.

 

[ChristisKing]

People (who) hate God because he doesn't give them every shiny thing they pray for. Worse, God wants them to change their behavior.

So in other words they expect Him to be Santa Claus. If they're good they think that they'll get whatever they want otherwise they're changing their behavior for nothing.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The only peole I can imagine that "hate god" are those who hold God responsible for the bad things that have happened in their lives.

 

[Mac1958]

The only peole I can imagine that "hate god" are those who hold God responsible for the bad things that have happened in their lives.

And for them to "hate God", they would have to believe that God exists, and is there to hate. So I'd imagine the "hate" is temporary only. Disappointment is not hatred.