Doesn't it turn people away from Christ to do this?

Question

To publicly proclaim Christianity and then report other people for disagreeing with you. If you are turning people away from Christ and yet doing it in His name are then anti-christian instead of a missionary? I am Christian and I totally agree with this very bad and too common practice.

I foolishly stated I agree with that very bad practice. I meant to say i totally DISAGREE, yes DISAGREE with it

Tribble, it is not a we thing JC Redding threatened to report all JWs for disagreing with him. If you read the details to his questions he even tells people he is reporting them for what they say

nice jokes by the way , Sansfear and Labgrrl

yes jan, i am sure. I am not saying offensive things at all. To verify you may freely check my Q&A. Also see JC Redding and his questions. In the details he frequently tells people they will be reported. I have yet to see anyone do more than disagree with him. He does follow through with the threats.

Answer 1

finally a kind spirited, non-hypocritical christian, thankyou sir

Answer 2

First of all, are you sure someone is reporting others just because they disagree, or was there something offensive in the question? This morning I woke up to the first question on this forum:
It was:
"Yo, jesus, how'd it feel to have your hands nailed to the tree?ha ha ha..."
Before I could give a response, the computer said that the questioner removed the question: I don't know if it was yahoo or the questioner who decided to withdraw it.

My point is that something like that is way over the line, and frankly pissed me off, esspecially since I hadn't even finished my first coffee of the morning.
I don't see anybody saying they are a Christian, and then turning someone away;
On here, "turning someone away" would mean refusing to answer their question, right?
Your entire comment is kind of ridiculous.
Maybe it is that my coffee got interrupted this morning, but I gotta tell you people, that after more than 35 yrs of Biblical study,
I am sick and tired of hearing about how a Christian "is supposed to be: loving, kind, sweet, never offensive, tolerant, etc....
Those are all wonderful sentiments, and one should be that way if possible, but if someone attacks the Living God, and you remain like that, you are next to useless to God. He is looking for Christian soldiers, not a bunch of fuzzyheaded wimps.
Oh, my, a Christian would never say that....
A Christian will be strong enough and secure enough in their beliefs in the God
they serve, to at least stand up for Him.
The war we fight is not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities in high places - a spiritual war. I would hate to be in a spiritual foxhole with some fluffball wimpy do-gooder to watch my back.
Wake up, and grow up.

Answer 3

I am a Jehovah's Witnesses, and he just reported me on the question about Theocratic Ministry School. I didn't say anything offense to him, I just stated the facts. Why he asks these questions anyway....who cares what a school is called...most churches have Sunday School..that term in not in the bible.

Actually, I just checked and he reported me on every question I answered of his. Even the ones that were already resolved.
I guess he doesn't like my answers. I was tempted to report him on all his JW questions, but I won't sink to his level.

Answer 4

I'm sorry that some Christians have reported people and i do think that it is unnecessary, but if someone was really bashing someone hard then i would understand. I personally wouldn't report anyone, because their beliefs are different than mine. That's just foolish. And to some degree you are right about us wanting to be missionaries (So to speak) and then reporting opposition it is wrong and I'm sorry on the behalf of all Christians here. But not all of us are like that. Please don't stereotype us into a category.

Answer 5

Freudian slip much?
(No, just picking in good humor.)

There are many things Christians do, and have done, that led me, when I was at a time of religious seeking, to consider any religion BUT Christianity.

There are so many Christians who act terribly that I never saw the appeal of a religion with so many awful folk in it.

Then I found the religion I've been with for 20+ years, and Christianity still never crossed my table as an option, but you didn't even get a chance with me, at least, because you have enough bad apples to rot your whole barrel.

And the fact that many of the otherwise good Christians claim those Christians that misbehave aren't really Christian was a big turn off, too. (Jesus, after all, said you all were.)

Answer 6

This isn't just on Y! Answers but a common practice in the world, among all religions, among people who do not really consider what they believe.

All people of any faith (or none) who do that seek not to build understanding and to inspire faith. They instead seek to inspire hatred, mistrust, and barriers between themselves and others. Those who do not believe in Christianity but who have seen the good in your religion know better than to take these people as representatives of it. By closing their ears to religious discussion, the Report-Button Radicals only harm themselves.

Answer 7

Yes i believe it does turn people away. It also shows the hypocrisy in those religions because they do not practice what they preach. I was raised roman catholic, but I have strayed away from all relgion because of behavior just like you are describing. Behavior that I witnessed while at church.

Personally, i feel everyone should just live to be good people because all religion does is separate the world. Everyone thinks theirs is better than everyone elses..... they think everyone should be the same as them. We should embrace our differences, and accept that not everyone is the same.

Answer 8

They just feel that they're "punishing" the bad people for saying bad things about Mr. Jesus. It's part of their insane need to make everybody in the world group-think with them. Personally, I've never reported anybody for anything. Isn't the first lesson in the "bible" that censorship doesn't work? ;)

Answer 9

Yep, I lost an entire account due to Christians. Emails that I had saved from my mom from two years ago that helped me get through rough times. Pictures that were taken before my friend went to college in a different state. Pictures of my adorable baby brothers. All of this gone just because I have a different belief. Let's just say my feelings were beyond hurt from this injustice.

Answer 10

I disagree and will be reporting you promptly

Jesus Love Me, but He Can't Stand You.

Jk

You are right

Answer 11

I don't report people who simply disagree with me.