Reply #62: I agree with that, too

[SomewhereOutThere424]

There's no wrong with challenging someone's belief, especially religious. I can understand if it's done too much at once or too frequently, it can be annoying. Using the example of doing my homework, my teacher repeatedly asking me why I got an answer wrong and acting like it's a part of me as a failure would get to me. On the same chord, questioning your faith is a good thing. A faith without question is blind faith, I think it only makes us stronger to have our opinions and viewpoints challenged now and then.

I think more or less, it's the way it's taught that someone questioning your belief is not one of you, and thus an enemy. The christians I respect most are those who can calmly and rationally refute a challenge I make without once acting as if I'm wrong for feeling that way, and it causes me to never want to make the same challenge. I also think there's an appropriate time to challenge a faith and inappropriate. There are times I've seen people challenge a pastor of a church because the pastor said 'you love new york, eh? Well why don't you love jesus?' out of the blue (tons of bible thumping around here). I myself have challenged my former pastor when he berated me for handing out the 'more expensive tracts' to 'less qualified' people, and I should only give them to people I felt would recieve the message, instead of giving everyone a fair chance (kind of like mental profiling based on conversation).

I ended up dropping out of that church because my pastor put someone's belief to the christian faith on the same level as a quarter. I'd hate to see where I'd be now if no one ever questioned my faith, while knowing I was at one time affiliated with a church who didn't value a man's soul as much as money, nickels and dimes.