Religious terms for unbelievers

[Exarch]

Should one be insulted if a religious convert labels a non-believer a derogatory term?
eg should i be insulted if a muslim calls me a 'kafir'? (translation:infidel/unbeliever)
like a jew calling me 'goyim' or a christian calling me 'heathen'?
then
do i get to knife him?

cuz having a term like 'goyim/kafir/unbeliever' is kinda like setting yourself apart from everyone else, making youself somehow better (and the other person, somehow wanting) like the way pre-1960s whites called blacks ''.

then do i get to knife him?

[Shi Huangdi]

Should one be insulted if a religious convert labels a non-believer a derogatory term?
eg should i be insulted if a muslim calls me a 'kafir'? (translation:infidel/unbeliever)
like a jew calling me 'goyim' or a christian calling me 'heathen'?
then
do i get to knife him?

cuz having a term like 'goyim/kafir/unbeliever' is kinda like setting yourself apart from everyone else, making youself somehow better (and the other person, somehow wanting) like the way pre-1960s whites called blacks ''.

then do i get to knife him?

No, you just mind your own business. As a Christian I'm as much a Kafir as you are, and I'm proud of it.

You don't knife people for what they say or what they call you. Civilized human beings know enough to respect the free speech rights of others. Knifing people because you don't like their beliefs is for savages.

[Dayman]

No, you just mind your own business. As a Christian I'm as much a Kafir as you are, and I'm proud of it.

You don't knife people for what they say or what they call you. Civilized human beings know enough to respect the free speech rights of others. Knifing people because you don't like their beliefs is for savages.

Yeah, you sue them for slander.

[Medicus]

Yeah, you sue them for slander.

Payback, the American way.:usflag:

Me? I wouldn't be insulted at all. So I don't believe in your crazy religion? In my book, that's a compliment.

[Dr. Croccer]

Kaffur simply means ''he who doesn't believe'' and Goyim ''(other) people''. They aren't offensive terms unless someone uses them offensively. Heathen hasn't been a passive term for ages and is more of an insult than Pagan or the others.

[Exarch]

Kaffur simply means ''he who doesn't believe'' and Goyim ''(other) people''. They aren't offensive terms unless someone uses them offensively. Heathen hasn't been a passive term for ages and is more of an insult than Pagan or the others.

i know plenty of muslims who use the term 'kafir' quite derogatorily, sadly

besides the knifing part was a hyperbole.
obviously i am not the type of person who knifes anyone

[Dr. Croccer]

Then, obviously, you should feel insulted. It's like the names of animals. Normally there's nothing wrong with it, untill someone uses it as an insult.

[Modestus]

Then, obviously, you should feel insulted. It's like the names of animals. Normally there's nothing wrong with it, untill someone uses it as an insult.

Reminds of a women describing her marriage, initially everything was fine and both partners had pet names for each other, usually a small animal. As the years passed they still had pet names but the animals had got bigger.

[Rich86]

I think I'd pity someone who said that to me more than anything.....

[Serious Spamurai]

Mushrik is a cooler term than kafir.

[The Cobra]

Mushrik for Christians.
Believer for Jews. or maybe ''Infidel''
Infidel for Atheists and everyone else.

[Dreiko]

Well i think that if someone wants to insult you the word he uses means nothing. Why would infidel be more insulting that puppy, when they are both meant to insult.

Now for the knifing part...... i prefer pistols myself......less blood on your clothes.....

[Primvs Sextvs Loverlord]

A "Kafir" is literally one "who hides the truth".

I wouldn't like to call anyone that because for all I know, that person might have done something that Allah holds in higher regard than anything I have done.

[Serious Spamurai]

Instead call then a Hindustani (sorry chaggy ).

[Babur]

Instead call then a Hindustani (sorry chaggy ).

*Stones Spammy for being so outspoken*

[Garrigan]

No. Dont get mad, get even. Call them something derogatory back. Preferably related to their religious beliefs, then if they are insulted, you can scream "HYPOCRITE" at the top of your lungs

[Orko]

"Goyim" means people that are not Jewish.
there is "koffer" that means "Heretic" but it is totally different because it is just a word rather then a particulare swearing for non-Jews.

[Djûn]

A heathen, if I recall correctly, derives its Old English meaning to be 'a person who is not Christian or Jewish'. Even in Christianity I wouldn't find much insult from it, it is no worse than being called an apostate, in my humble opinion of course.

[Mathais]

Am LDS everyone usally everyone hates me so dont feel to bad. Most of the time it because of some foolish miss understanding but whatever I love everyone equlally regaurdless of what they think of me!

[Fenix_120]

For me it would depend on how it was said, if it were said matter-of-factly I would not take offense.




If it were insulting I would definitely sue him faster than u can say yo mama.