why are christians so eisialy offended?

Question

a few cases that hang on by thread due to critisism:

the da vinchi code ( i didnt know fiction needed a hatemongering)
slayers new album art for christ illsuion ( image link http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7681/christillsuioncoverty7.jpg)
marilyn manson ( hatemongering here http://www.johnnyleeclary.com/manson.htm) ( found when doing homework on a speech (teenculture scapegoat cases) very dangerous man there that jhonny!)
anyone who slanders bush
and anyone who apparentely has anything to do with the devil (like i said, apparntely)


these are a few - i shall add more as i find

the whole detah metal scene, offensive t-shirts.... what is it with you americans and your christians? put them on a leash allready!

okie, i cant spell eisialy, its one word, not like a whole bloody question now was it?

im not sterotyping - its just the majority of things and this whole "polititial corectness" crap....

carol M, im an athiest yes, right to free will? yes. right to sya what i want (ithing reson) yes. so stick that up your butt.... and this isnt a forum you muppet! its a Q+A site

plonker

Answer 1

probably cause they can spell

Answer 2

First it would help if you could spell, or use the spell checker!

Second, it would help if your links worked!

Third, it would help if you (and some of these people that you say are being attacked) would stop and think for a moment. I must admit, the image for the Slayer album is thought provoking, as a piece of art. However, to use an image like that to sell albums is a little tasteless.

Marilyn Manson, to the best of my recolection uses lyrics that incite violence and immoral sex acts, you don't need to be a christian to object to that.

President Bush gets slandered by members of every religion, you don't think all comedians are non-christians?

Anything to do with the devil, hmmmm let me think about that for 0.00000 seconds - Good vs Evil is the main point of Christianity, Satan (or the Devil) is the opposite side of the coin to God so therefore they would be against it!

To go back to the Da Vinci code, so much has been reported in the press and TV about this book and some of the glaring errors in logic that the Church is not worried about it. So what if Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, so what if they had a child? We are all children of God, so does it matter?

Answer 3

I'm only offended when I'm personally attacked. I think the times are more the cause of all the music, and images out there, if we take the time to find out what is so appealing about this stuff to the young people, instead of attacking the artists, we might actually get somewhere. I think that all generations have their "thing". This is just another example of the adults [zealot Christians in this case] trying to control everything. I raised my children with a belief system [God], but, as young adults they have to make their own decisions. As for politically correct, they've gone overboard, I dislike Bush as a president and resent that he is supposed to represent a good Christian !!!! Good taste, & ethics should be our guide to what is correct or not correct, not the media, who came up with [Politically Correct], there is so much more that needs our attention, why is everyone spending so much energy on petty crap ??

Answer 4

I think you've misidentified the "easily offended" people.

Too often, it's the atheists and secularists of society who are easily offended.

That's why they throw a hissy-fit whenever a kid mentions "God" in a public-school homework assignment and send the kid to the principal's office.

It's why they have pushed to have "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.

It's why they come on to Yahoo Q&A and whine about a co-worker who's Christian and isn't afraid to say so.

It's why they seek to exclude from public office anyone who's deemed "too religious," especially if the person is Catholic.

It's why they want Christmas removed as a public holiday, and why they've pushed schools all over America to change their "Christmas concerts" to "holiday concerts."

It's why they've pushed to remove "Christmas" from public school calendars, and replace it with "Winter Holiday" or some other claptrap.

It's why they cut a high-school valedictorian's microphone because she dared to thank God for her school success during her speech.

I could go on and on with such examples, but you get the idea. The only hypersensitive and easily-offended folks I see out there are not the ones who practice Christianity, but the ones who have a psychological aversion to it.

As a group, these folks are the intellectually weakest people I've ever heard about. Their religiophobia drives them to do things such as what I've listed above.

Answer 5

Some Christians are easily offended. Especially baby Christians. Because others can wound them. Do not cast your pearls before swine. I found that out the hard way. I was delivered from bondage / breakdown. I tried to tell some others how God delivered me. They wounded me. God is still healing me. The wounds weren't recognized at the time, so they are deep because they were re-inflicted a few times.

When someone slanders the Word of God, or other Christian leaders, I will not deny my God or my christian sisters & brothers. I back God up 100%. That includes those trusting & obeying Him.

Christians are commanded to love God & others. That means walking in forgiveness. If some one curses me, I just return it dipped in God's Love. I make a habit of walking in forgiveness. Because if I don't forgive, Father God can't forgive me. And my prayers are hindered.


Also, anybody can be easily offended. It usually depends on if some one has been hurt in the same area or attacked same way before. Wounds can go back to infancy.

Answer 6

Your links didn't work for me. Just FYI.
As far as being easily offended, it's not just Christians. It works both ways. I've seen a lot of non-Christians that get very touchy when questioned.
However, in response to your question, I think it has to do with comfort. Those who aren't comfortable with what they claim to believe can see attacks in everything. Everything they see that questions their beliefs is terrible and dangerous because it can upset their delicate equilibrium.
Personally, I thought the Da Vinci Code was an interesting book. I get upset when people mick the suffering of Jesus (which I'm assuming is what those images do), but that's roughly along the same lines of people who mock/deny the holocaust. It was an event that has deep meaning and spiritual value to a lot of people and that depth of pain and suffering doesn't deserve to be mocked, regardless of your own personal beliefs.

Answer 7

The Christians have watched as the archaeologists begin to explain miracles and magic of the old testament and unravel things that at first were used by the religious to show the power of God but are now beginning to look like natural acts and common sense. The publication of the gnostic gospels led to more paranoia as Jesus became humanised as the descriptions of him kissing the Mary Magdalene on the lips and outraging the disciples with this and other human acts. More recently the fire at the Vatican in which certain relics were burned led inadvertently to a curious episode in which the pope of the time was told that one of the foreskins of Jesus was destroyed by fire to which he replied do not worry we have two more. In 2004 the publication of the Gospel according to Judas was published which again humanised Jesus and to a vast extent cleared Judas of wrong doing by stating that Jesus wanted Judas to betray him as part of an overall plan. Christian churches are closing as more people research the bible closely for pertinent explanations of miracles and more learned authors publish their findings and research.

Answer 8

Not all Christians are easily offended, as others have already stated. I think that it's unreasonable to think that non-believers would behave according to the standards of believers. Hatred, to me, infers some other underlying emotion such as fear or insecurity. I don't feel the need to hate people (in fact I am unequivocally commanded to love all of God's creation), though I am obliged to speak out against wrong behavior as defined by God.

I think Christians naturally want to speak in defense of correct portrayals of the spiritual realm and promote behaviors and attitudes that advance the Kingdom, but this (with God's help) should be done in a loving way that encourages others to come "home".

Peace and grace to you and all glory to God.

Answer 9

in basic terms you could come to a decision yet as a christian myself i even have self assurance in issues that are no longer motioned interior the bible like for example i dont submit to in techniques any ufos yet i've got self assurance in them . IM not sure if im answering you question so think of roughly this dose this guy or woman have a tree at christmas by way of fact Christmas wood are no longer something to do with Christ nor are easter eggs why do those issues no longer offended him think of roughly that

Answer 10

As you well know, Christians are not easily offended anything like on the scale of a Muslim.
Just a pathetic attempt to try and reverse an already known fact.
Start living in reality !

Answer 11

HEY, I am glad you told me later that you couldn't spell eisialy. (no offence). I was getting ready to look it up in the Dictionary(probably wouda' took me a long time too). They add new word's all the time, I hear.
It is up to the Individual whether they get Offended or not, totally up to them. Becoming Offended, over anything, is a Personal Thing. Thank's.