What is your biggest turn-off with Christians?

Question

What is the thing that you hate the most about Christians and how they sometimes act?

Answer 1

Christian culture is embarassing. They always take mainstream culture and create their own lame version of it. Christian rock, Christian metal, rap, Christian raves, myspace-like sites, etc.

They take mainstream elements and use them to "witness" such as "got jesus?" t-shirts or the Intel advertisment take-offs like, "jesus inside," with the logo, etc.

Fricken LAME

Answer 2

I am a spirit filled Christian which means I not only believe that Jesus Christ died so that I could be saved and spend eternity in Heaven, BUT I ALSO believe in healing and speaking in tongues. However, I will be the first to say that Christians (my own church included) often times get so wrapped up in their own "thing" that they forget about the real reason why Jesus died on the cross in the first place. It was not so that we could have pot-lucks and fall festivals (although there is nothing wrong with those things). But I think Christians sometimes put outselves in our religious "boxes" and EXCLUDE anyone who is not like us. Therefore we cast judgement on those whose hair is different than the styles we are used to, if someone dresses different than what we think is appropriate, or if they wear too much make-up or the "wrong colors"....or whatever. Christians seem more concerned about the length of skirts, the tightness of jeans, the lyrics of songs and whatnot than they do about the salvation of their neighbor. We will complain on the phone about the teens of this generation and how they dress and talk.....yet if one of those teens walked in the back door of our church, instead of welcoming them with open arms we would more likely gasp and look the other way hoping they would go away. This is NOT how Jesus lived his life. He did not just mingle with the "well to do" and the "goody goodies". He spoke "one on one" with the destitute, the prostitutes and those with contagious diseases (then leprosy/now AIDS).

What do I hate most about Christians? I don't HATE anything....I am ashamed. I am ashamed of all the answers that I have read before I wrote mine. It's a shame that Christians are seen as such hypocrites.....and yet so many of us are doing nothing to change that very stereotype.

Answer 3

I am Christian.

What bothers me about some other Christians is that they act and feel superior to others, including those who don't adhere to their particular denomination.

They spend way too much time playing church and never really read the entire bible, in the original languages. When I ask them if they know that the Hebrew or Aramaic or Greek says this or that, they give me a blank stare. They have no idea who Yahweh or Yahshua is, which is S A D.

They are like sheep blindly following a pastor who spends the majority of his/her time building an hour long sermon around one or two worn out scriptures usually followed by passing a begging bag around the room.

They are convinced that they will be raptured up and the rest of us poor fools will be "Left Behind", which is completely absurd and if they read the scriptures in the original languages they would see how absurd that belief is. They also believe that once saved, always saved, which also isn't true.

There are plenty of things that annoy me about the majority of Christians, but I keep it to myself.

Let them find out the hard way.

Answer 4

Some seem to think that because they are Christian, they are better than everyone else, and that they alone have a monopoly on morality. And they can do anything, as long as they ask to be forgiven for it. It seems like the truly Christian people are the ones who follow the words of Christ, and do not look down on others or do those things which are prohibited in the first place.

Answer 5

Most of the +/- 2 billion Christians in the world keep to themselves, do their jobs or go to school or whatever and are not bothering anyone. The Christians who seem to bother people are those who are narrow minded and feel obliged to impose their faith on others.
Unfortunately, if only 1% of Christians feel the need to proselytize in an intrusive way, (rather than quietly and privately like most Christians), that's still 20 million. Since that number includes people like the president of the U.S., it seems to feel safer for people who would otherwise not interfere with their neighbors to do so now.

Answer 6

It seems to me that the majority of the Christians today rush to judge those who may not believe exactly the way that they do - even within the Christian community. I've heard Christians say that all Catholics are going to hell...they are the original Christians. I don't know, it just seems that the Christian movement seems to have lost sight of what it was all suppose to be about. Jesus was supposed to have been all about non-judgment and treating other with respect and compassion. I don't see much of that with our Christians today.

I'm also very concerned with the amount of Christian involvement in politics. Seperatation of Church and State. What happened to that concept?

Todays Chrisitians have actually pushed me away from Chrisitianity. I just don't believe that God would want us to treat each other the way our Christian majority acts. It's really sad.

Answer 7

Most of the Christian Fundamentalists are correct in their beliefs of Creationism, but their missing the boat of evolution. My biggest turn-off is that they are unwilling to accept the scientific side of intelligent design. If they would integrate a little science with their theology, they would see that evolution and God are not mutually exclusive, but in fact could not exist without one another.

Intelligent Design - are you ID-prepared?

Answer 8

I don't have a problem with christians. I have a problem with fundamentalists masquerading as Christians. Really I can't say I know anyone who truly follows the teachings of Christ. Most "Christians" are war mongering facists. That is what I have a problem with.

Answer 9

my biggest turn off with christians is there ignorance they dont understand anything that isnt like them or there bible. they believe in some thing that totaly has been disproven by a lot of people already in the world today. i have been threated by christians in the past and i almost got killed by one because i didnt want to believe in there bible(buybull) i find them to be very narrow minded and yet i read the bible for myself and i feel darkness around there churchs i mean all sects. of christianity churchs..there history is another turn-off to me it is covered in blood and voilence toward nonchristians and they try to say they aint real christians when there own bible tells them its ok to kill nonbelievers

Answer 10

It's just the bigotry and hypocrisy, but you get that with most religions; North Americans just get an overdose of it because we're surrounded by Christians. Otherwise, I don't really have a problem with them.

Answer 11

mall crowds and lines. It's all online shopping for me from now on.

Ohhhhh, I thought you said christmas.

I guess the biggest turn off is the self righteousness. If they believe it, it's true. if you don't believe it, not only are you wrong, but you're going to hell. And too many want to force their beliefs on us through the government.

Obviously, that's not all christians, just the ones who piss me off.