Question for the religious and non religious folks who...

always try convincing others of their faith or non faith.

If your faith is so strong, why do you care if others dont believe what you believe? Your beliefs should be untouchable and same goes to those who dont believe in religion, why do you care that others do believe in it and why try to prove their religion to be not real?

I am religious myself and could not care in the slightest if others dont believe in it. I dont understand the constant religious arguments and trying to prove its real or not real

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JuniperEmz · 22-25, F

Not all religions make 'spreading the word' an important priority. Like you don't get many Hindu or Jewish missionaries (AFAIK). Nor do most pagans or whatever as far as I can tell. The difference is mostly in Christianity where believers are specifically told in the bible to tell other people about it.

And now I'm being so thoughtful (!), i guess it's also related to how your religion views the world. If you see the world as full of gods and goddesses and you're just busy worshipping your own ones, then you're going to not bother much about other peoples gods. And it also matters about your afterlife beliefs: if you believe in some kind of reincarnation, or simply no afterlife for anyone, then it's not going to matter much what other people believe. If you believe that people are going to heaven or hell, then it's definitely an act of charity (for the believer) to try and tell as many people about their religion as possible - because you don't want anyone going to hell if they can avoid it (assuming you believe hell's a bad place, anyway).

So if you believe there is one single God (or Goddess i guess), and also believe that there's a heaven you hope everyone can get to, and then combine that with an instruction to preach to other people...you care a lot about what other people believe.

Or, you can light your candles and incense, leave offerings under a tree, respect the place you're living in and it's energies, and leave everyone else alone. How I manage anyway 🤷‍♀️

Torsten · 36-40, M

@JuniperEmz good point and from my experience with paganism and that being Norse paganism is there is no desire or priority to spread it around to others.

I do see where people are coming from with spreading it and so on based on the replies in here. I guess my question is when it comes to the endless arguing back and forth stuff.
If people want to "spread the word" of their religion, why not do that to people who want to hear it and leave others alone when its clear they dont want any part of it and why do non believers care so much that people do have religious views?
yeah the never ending arguments on religion is baffling to me.

JuniperEmz · 22-25, F

@Torsten I wanna heart that twice!

I don't mind people talking to me about what they believe (I prob won't start the conversation though), but when it goes from two people being interested in each others views of the world to badgering me, yeah that's when I try to back away a bit...

Torsten · 36-40, M

@JuniperEmz I am the same with you on that for certain things. religion is a big topic I normally try and avoid. If people ask me bout it thats cool but if a argument breaks out, I am out. Its just a waste of time