I'm based in the UK and I've read a lot of the questions on here regarding Christians. Is it me that just thinks this but are a lot of questions on here making Christians sound like the mother out of that film Carrie?
I have friends who are Christians, Roman Catholics & Muslims and all of them are not as "full on" as these questions are making them out to be. In fact their religion is hardly mentioned, my friends who are Christians may or may not go to church and some of them belive that you don't need a church for god to hear you etc etc.
I'm not a religious person but I think some of these questions are really making people out to be what they are not. Or, is this simply the way people are in other countries.
Does anyone else think this?
2007-01-25 20:50:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are right, a lot of the questions make all Christians look like Bible thumping, Holy rollers. We aren't all like that. In fact, most of us aren't.
2007-01-25 20:56:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You're right, but I don't think it's only Christians that are affected by this exaggeration.
The exaggeration is caused because a few people with strong (often ignorant) opinions write inflammatory questions. Then other opinionated, pro and against, will inflame the argument even further - and reading through it sounds like everybody's either a fundamentalist christian or a fundamentalist atheist (I would consider myself an atheist, but not an evangelical atheist). More sedate questions will only get a few responses, as people don't feel so strongly about personal religion.
2007-01-25 21:07:11 · answer #2 · answered by dumberthangeorgebush 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that what you see here is what many American Christians (especially Roman Catholics) are like. Note, not all of them are like that though and things are often exaggerated here. You often bump into extremes on the internet.
In my experience the majority of Christians around the world are not so full of it. They seem to manage being more Christ-like. I think there is probably just something very wrong with some churches in the U.S. The Christians you see here on Yahoo generally are not very good representatives for Christianity as a whole.
2007-01-25 21:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by undir 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A lot like to get a reaction and many know very little about the real beliefs of any Christian or Muslim . In fact a lot of there opinions come from the media which likes to portray extreme examples and of course so much airtime and column space has been given to the ramblings of the bigot Richard Dawkins.
2007-01-25 21:17:37 · answer #4 · answered by jack lewis 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't believe that Christians are the way they are portrayed here in this section of Y!Answers. For some reason this board has been hijacked by those with a lot of hate against Christians (and other religions by extention).
2007-01-25 22:04:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The minority of people with extreme views have a high motivation to lay them on the rest of us - so the picture that appears is skewed. From the extreme view, moderate thought is apostacy, or at least apathy, and must be challenged. The thought that it may be balanced, considerate and actually desirable does not appeal to them.
2007-01-26 02:29:07 · answer #6 · answered by meerkat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, nobody's perfect. But if one professes to be following a certain religion, then every single teaching in that religion should be followed.
It doesn't mean the one saying it is doing it or a good follower of the religion. It just reflects his/her understanding.
Still, sharing is good because it gets people out of ignorance.
But let not my imperfection affect your strive towards perfection. That would be the worst that can happen. Because if you see me as imperfect and justify the words that I speak (which may be truthful) as consequently imperfect, then you have just justified yourself out of doing right and straight into wrong.
That would be evil at work.
2007-01-25 21:08:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
you live a life of comforts in a place where one tends to spend less time justifying thier existence before thier concepts of God. In such a relaxed atmosphere fundamental ideals become quickly muddled and lost to mundanity. Thus the faith of a Muslim who is friends with a Roman Catholic can be likened to a giant snapping turtle that lives as a friend in the same pond with gators at a zoo.(as I have witnessed both here also) They are friends, sheltered and fed otherwise. They are out of touch with the basic fundamentals of thier nature. Thier children will mingle bloodlines and then maybe perform some token holy rights to appease their parents and later toss the needless scripts aside.
2007-01-25 20:56:43 · answer #8 · answered by jorluke 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I think you may be a wacko or not. you may be full on or a pacifist.
You may draw people to you or repel them. On top of all of this you may have a religious persuasion or not. but on does not always follow the other.
I'm a christian
2007-01-25 21:16:11 · answer #9 · answered by Ignatious 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You raised a very good point. Alot of the questions here are rooted in ignorance and bigotry. People of Faith are nothing like the Atheists here portray them to be. Just ignore them. We do.
2007-01-25 20:56:25 · answer #10 · answered by Darktania 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋