Why does society accept Chistianity as a personal belief but they do not accept other forms of personal beliefs such as Atheism Satanism and Wicca?

Answer 1

A variety of answers from different people:

• Simple xenophobia. People just don't want to like people who are different from them.

• Because the human mind is free to accept or reject any belief system.

• Fear, that's why. The Christian message is plain and simple: If you belief in our belief you will go to heaven. If not, you go to hell. Christians use fear to bribe people into converting to their beliefs. They also use lies and manipulation to make other religions appear immoral or sinful. I personally think Satanism is wrong because it promotes violence and vengeance. But if you're a Wiccan, like me, you know there is no wrong in your belief. Its just power-hungry, die-hard Christians want Christian world and to condemn anything unrelated to it.

• Christians place high priority on making converts, unlike atheists or Wiccans. And they have had two thousand years to do it in, so there are a lot of Christians in the world. Personally, I also agree with the fellow Wiccan, above, in that they use "spiritual blackmail" to get people to believe what they say - although to be fair, not all Christians are like that.

• Humans wrote The Bible, not God- so I'm sure there is a lot of hate and mistakes in it. I don't think God would hate you when he says that he loves and values every life. Especially when he knows the truth of Wiccan beliefs. A Church may be blind of the truth, but their God is not.

• Christianity is a common religion but 'Atheism Satanism and Wicca' are being considered as a subculture and some people find them mysterious so that's why Christianity is accepted and truly Christian people would never turn to use manipulation or bribery so at least we'd never ever make fun of any holy book or religion because we believe in forgiveness. Christianity doesn't promote violence and this shows that it's safe to deal with Christians and that makes us accepted.

• The only reason Wicca is condemned today is because it has few members and Christianity which has more members condemns it so that people will not change faiths.

• Most of the above posters are (I presume) in North America. Wicca is not condemned in Europe, because Europe is quite secular, and religion doesn't matter that much. Also, one poster said that Christianity doesn't promote violence: pick up any unbiased history book to see why this is patently untrue. The poster's brand of Christianity may not: that cannot be said for all Christianity, alas.

• because history shows there is power in numbers. The winner of the war gets to write the history book and letting other truths out undermines the winners' regime