7 Questions for non-Christians

[Whateverist]

4. What do you think is important and unimportant to God? What it is we do with our privates. Kind of a perv.
5. What do you think is takes to be straightened out with God? Ridding the world of Canaanites.

Good answers.

[Jenny A]

I'm looking for people to answer the following questions as a part of a survey I need to conduct. Could you share your answers to them?

1. How would you describe your religious background and church involvement?

Many of my early memories are church memories. I did Sunday school, Bible school, church camp, youth group and Confirmation classes. My parents had a Bible study group that ran until the wee hours at various houses and we children played until late and then fell asleep on the floor.

The very early years were Presbyterian. My father had a couple years of seminary with them and he occasionally preached. Later we went to a Lutheran church which is in keeping with my mother's background. That's were I did youth group and confirmation classes.

Can't say those are bad memories. I remember the people fondly.

I stopped going to church as soon as I left the house.

2. To you, what is God like? Describe God.

There's a problem. The descriptions I've heard are all over the map: wrathful, loving, powerful, unwilling to be tested. . .

3. To you, what is important in life?

Caring for others, making the best of what we have, and living life to the fullest. It's a balancing act.

4. What do you think is important and unimportant to God?

What god? Seriously, there are a bunch of invented ones and no real one in sight. I will assume you mean the Christian one. He seems to be most interested in faith without reason, followed shortly by obedience to arbitrary rules. He's needy.

5. What do you think is takes to be straightened out with God?

Got me. It's not a phrase I've heard. But I'd guess it would require his existence.


6. Describe what the term Jesus Christ means to you.

I picture the guy in the paintings with the long hair. I'm pretty sure he didn't look like that. I think he was a moral philosopher and he thought he was a prophet. Christians portray him as the new kinder gentler god. He's kinda passive aggressive if you ask me.

7. From your perspective, what are the major problems of churches today?

They're either getting more fundamentalist (stupid anti-science, bronze age moral); or have gone all new age and and decided that all the religions contradictions and all are true.

[The Grand Nudger]

I'm looking for people to answer the following questions as a part of a survey I need to conduct. Could you share your answers to them?

1. How would you describe your religious background and church involvement?

An even mixture of colorful and non-existent.

2. To you, what is God like? Describe God.

Whatever the believer needs it to be like.

3. To you, what is important in life?

....lol......

4. What do you think is important and unimportant to God?

Whatever is important or unimportant to the believer.

5. What do you think is takes to be straightened out with God?

Whatever the believer feels satisfied having done.

6. Describe what the term Jesus Christ means to you.

A name followed by a title for a character in a narrow range of fiction.

7. From your perspective, what are the major problems of churches today?

-that they persist.

[dyresand]

I'm looking for people to answer the following questions as a part of a survey I need to conduct. Could you share your answers to them?

1. How would you describe your religious background and church involvement?
2. To you, what is God like? Describe God.
3. To you, what is important in life?
4. What do you think is important and unimportant to God?
5. What do you think is takes to be straightened out with God?
6. Describe what the term Jesus Christ means to you.
7. From your perspective, what are the major problems of churches today?

None i am a free minded individual who love science and the natural world without a need, faith, belief in a god.
life is not important unless you give it meaning my meaning is to be happy. Jesus to me means just an excuse to say
why you wont do horrible things or a reason to do horrible things and get away with it in the end. Everything with church
is a issue it teaches love somewhat that's okay mostly bigotry and hatred of people who aren't normal.
to be straightened out with god... well stop killing us humans we don't deserve it and stop giving us to much of a challenge
and having us pray for your help that if the fucker is there watching over us but i don't believe he is.

[vorlon13]

I'm looking for people to answer the following questions as a part of a survey I need to conduct. Could you share your answers to them?

1. How would you describe your religious background and church involvement?
2. To you, what is God like? Describe God.
3. To you, what is important in life?
4. What do you think is important and unimportant to God?
5. What do you think is takes to be straightened out with God?
6. Describe what the term Jesus Christ means to you.
7. From your perspective, what are the major problems of churches today?

1. gradual move away from organized religion

2. null set

3. 42

4. same stuff that is important and unimportant to Dagwood Bumstead

5. ruler? straight edge ? laser level ? (not sure I understand the question)

6. JC is to Paul as urim and thummim is to Joseph Smith, or Xemu is to L. Ron Hubbard

7. Liberal backsliding, failure to embrace Biblical Literalism and Inerrancy, cherry picking scriptures to follow and ignore, pedophilia, worshipping Mammon, divorce and remarriage, public prayer, women preaching to men, unclean (menstruating) women allowed in church, shrimp eating, fabrics made of mixed materials, remembering Amalek, repeating the sins of Ananias and Sapphira, not enough deadly serpents hiding under pews, and cheese on pizza with meat.

[Alex K]

Guy with 6 questions,

Why do you ask atheists what god is like and what it takes to be straightened out? You do understand they do not believe gods to exist, right?

[Aractus]

I'm looking for people to answer the following questions as a part of a survey I need to conduct. Could you share your answers to them?

While those are all excellent questions they are very incomplete.

1. How would you describe your religious background and church involvement?

I was Anglican until earlier this year. After learning quite a bit about the history of the early Christian church I turned my attention to early Judaism and found that it did not develop at all in the way described in the Old Testament. In particular, I found out that the Exodus could not have occurred and that the conquest of Canaan certain didn't occur especially since Egypt had complete control over that area well into the 11th century B.C.

2. To you, what is God like? Describe God.

Which god? Jehovah?

Okay.

Jehovah does not recognise "illegitimate children" as being equals with what he views as "legitimate children".

Jehovah believes that daughters should not receive any inheritance, he believes this is only for sons.

Jehovah instructs Moses to allow men to divorce their wives in a certain context, but it makes it clear that women are not allowed to divorce their husbands. This reinforces the view that women are property.

Jehovah gives his laws of warfare, in it he instructs that his chosen people when they go to battle with a city shall first give it a chance to surrender. If they refuse they are to be put to the sword, except the women and children who will be the "spoils of war" meaning that all the women shall become sex slaves (concubines) for his chosen people.

If the city surrenders, Jehovah instructs his chosen people to enslave everyone and to make the enslaved men to do "forced labour", the enslaved women are the spoils of war as before (sex slaves).

3. To you, what is important in life?

Friends, enjoyment, health and security.

4. What do you think is important and unimportant to God?

See answer to Q. 2.

5. What do you think is takes to be straightened out with God?

1. Be a misogynist. 2. Advocate for slavery. 3. Fight with the sword to expand your borders.

6. Describe what the term Jesus Christ means to you.

Jesus was a man who lived and died in the early first century. He was crucified by Pontius Pilate under the suggestion of Jewish authorities, and his body was taken and placed in a tomb by a man called Joseph (of Arimathea, not to be confused with Jesus's supposed-father), who probably took the body out of the tomb and had it buried in the ground afterward.

Jesus had followers (i.e. disciples), he also had a message. He knew the Hebrew scriptures well.

7. From your perspective, what are the major problems of churches today?

Which one? Some are better than others, some are far far worse. Paul advocates for excommunication of non-believers, and this is followed by some Christians but not by all. For instance Jehovah's Witnesses follow this. Also, some churches advocate for rejecting modern medicine and modern science. What I found is that the overwhelming majority of churches reject modern archaeological science even though they accept other science that disproves most (if not all) of Genesis. Most Christians do not critically think about such issues and are unwilling to fairly assess their beliefs when presented with hard evidence.

Let me suppose for a moment that you are right, and that Jehovah exists. He's a brutal misogynistic god, but he exists nonetheless. If I'm shown clear scientific evidence that the Exodus didn't happen, that the pilgrimage through the Sinai Peninsula and the conquest of Canaan didn't happen, and that although David and Solomon did exist that they were rulers over only tiny villages, then it shouldn't surprise him that I don't accept or believe his so-called "sacred text" which is nothing more than political propoganda that probably began in the 7-6th century B.C. as a way for king of Judea of the time to control religion - thereby outlawing other religions and forcing conformity to the Judeans of the time to the "law of Moses".

[jesus_wept]

1. How would you describe your religious background and church involvement?

I went to church when I was young but grew.out of it.

2. To you, what is God like? Describe God.

He is a dickhead.

3. To you, what is important in life?

Eating babies.

4. What do you think is important and unimportant to God?

Torturing people for thought crimes and smiting heretics seems importtant to him. Whether or not someone lead a good life, less so.

5. What do you think is takes to be straightened out with God?

I have no idea what this means.

6. Describe what the term Jesus Christ means to you.

Smeared with semen.

7. From your perspective, what are the major problems of churches today?

They exist as churches. The roofs seem to leak a lot too.

[abaris]

I'm looking for people to answer the following questions as a part of a survey I need to conduct. Could you share your answers to them?

1. How would you describe your religious background and church involvement?

[b]I was a lazy Catholic, not very much into religion. Now there's no involvement. [/b]

2. To you, what is God like? Describe God.

[b]That's rather a question for believers. When I go with the religious teachings I was brought up with, god is a petty little vengeful creature. More like a bitter old lonely man chasing kids with his walking cane. [/b]

3. To you, what is important in life?

To be a decent person overall. Family and friends, of course. To never stop learning and last but not least, dogs and animals in general.

4. What do you think is important and unimportant to God?

According to the religious lessons I was brought up with, god seems strangely interested in private parts and what people do with them. Kind of a peeping Tom. Pain and suffering on the other hand, don't seem to bother him much.

5. What do you think is takes to be straightened out with God?

What do I know? And by the way, which god? I don't believe in any of them.

6. Describe what the term Jesus Christ means to you.

Bend me, shape me, any way you like me .... Remember that old song from the 60ies? That's what Jesus actually is. Kind of a rubber doll, that believers can manipulate to their personal preference.

7. From your perspective, what are the major problems of churches today?

Still going with the old stick and carrot scheme.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

It's impolite to come onto a forum and start a survey for, well, something, without asking.Whether you can first. Generally you let the participants of it know what the ultimate goal of it is and what they're contributions will mean, and indeed how they can see the results.

No doubt you've bombed this on multiple forums.