I Cannot Believe How Narrow Minded Certain Of My Fellow Christians Are?

Question

Earlier in here, someone asked Christians who would they rather have teach their children in school:

1) A gay Christian
2) A Moslem
3) An Atheist
4) A Christian (who was a convicted pedophile but claims to be reformed now)

The VAST majority of the respondants said they would rather home school but if FORCED to choose, they would pick the Christian who was the convicted pedophile.

That REALLY baffled me! So certain Christians think a former pedophile (and those are REALLY rare) is a better choice to be alone with their children than a Moslem or Atheist for teaching math, reading, science etc?

What does it matter if someone is of another faith? Or even gay? They are not there to teach religion or sexual orientation are they? I had a gay teacher for Literature and the majority of the class, me included were FINE!

Why are some of my fellow Christians so narrow minded and scared of ANYONE different to them?

Kitz, my not feeling comfortable with a pedophile (even one who says they are Christian) has NOTHING to do with me not accepting their penitance.

By all means, I will worship with a repentant child molester and extend charity and Christian love.

But I am not STUPID! FACTS show, practising pedophiles are very rarely ever 100% reformed and don't YOU as a Christian slip up from time to time and sin?

So when the pedophile slips up (and we all do) WHOSE children will he be slipping up with? Not mine!

I face no such threat with a gay teacher and a teacher of another faith is not there to teach his faith but math, reading, science etc.

No I am not gay. Geez! I must be gay by association and being fair-minded towards gay people LOL!

spoken 4, already millions of gay people and non Christian people are taught by straight Christian people and it did not adversely affect them nor did they claim that it will.

It took a while to track down the link to the Question. Here it is

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak5keyUiF7lA7g1AvwOeywTty6IX?qid=20070516073909AAxIJoL&show=7#profile-info-iScNZJWSaa

I left out the fact they also included a Mormon and JW.

Now that makes it EVEN more interesting huh?

Answer 1

I agree with you--but clearly we are talking about people (some of whom are welll-meaning but misguided, others not so innocent) who are followers o fright-wing groups that are essentially cults. These are not Christians.

And real christians need to stop allowing these frauds to claim Christianity and go unchallenged. We owe it to your faith--but even more we owe it to the many people--such as thos e in this survey--who are being misled.

Answer 2

my feeling is other than the paedophile, that, in a public school, any would do so long as they are qualified and especially if they keep their personal preferences/religion out of it.

that being said, I'm rather surprised at many of the answers here: "hilarious" "not surprising" and several references to 'all Christians' is quite interesting. This is not a controlled statistical forum. It's an opinion page. As such, the few persons who answered that question (relative to 2 billion Christians worldwide) did so because it caught their eye. In my experience, all persons who give a specific opinion regarding a query such as this are giving a knee jerk reaction. (I myself am often guilty of it).
I wonder too - how many persons on this forum can honestly say they always apologize for their actions / words. Many seem to discount Christians IMMEDIATELY for their stating their opinion, honest answer or honest mistake, but often are immune to their own reactions and words and how they affect people.


blessings :)

EDIT
I read the q & a from your link. There were 20 answers, of only 6 answered abuser or homeschooled in some fashion or other. Only one answerer says for sure they would CHOOSE the abuser. At any rate - hardly the "VAST majority".
NOTE: that the original question stated "convicted child abuser" - that's quite a ways from paedophile.

With this information, I would have to question the "reason for your question" considering you claim to be a "fellow Christian"... ?

Answer 3

As long as the first three keep their beliefs and any agendas they may have out of the classroom, then I could careless. I believe that all three groups have the ability to be fair and balanced, and as long as they are, then I will not have problems with it. Though I don't agree with any of them. Also I would hope that they would teach the correct definition of tolerance- which does not mean that we have to accept people's bad behavior. (but if the pedophyle were teaching, that is the message would would be teaching).

The "reformed" pedophyle should NEVER be allowed around children- Period. There are really very few who are truely reformed and I refuse to offer my child as a test to find out if he really has been reformed.

Edit**

I am Christian. Christianity does not preach hate, but some people choose to live that way. Although I believe that many define hate incorrectly- just because you disagree with another person's life style or choices, does not mean that you hate them.

Answer 4

I'm with you 100% as a fellow christian...that's insane.

Added: Just for the record, there is NO SUCH THING AS A REFORMED PEDOPHILE.

Answer 5

Doesn't surprise me.

Didn't you notice how little the average Catholic reacted to the pedophile Priest controversy? They were just grateful that Protestants or Atheists weren't violating their little boys butts. They didn't care if a Priest did it.

Answer 6

That is kind of scary, I think it's ignorance, they think the gay one would also be a pedophile, the Muslim would bomb them, or teach their children to praise Allah, and the atheist might teach their kids science.........which is worst of all I'm sure.

Science > rape.

Answer 7

yes, this is pretty sick to think a question up like this. Even more so to impose other people reading it.
I am finding that there is a lot more people that don't believe in God, than do. And the ones that do are hard to find the sincere questions.
Some question like that just need to be reported.

Answer 8

Ooo, PLEASE post the link to that question, I am dying to see it.


To answer your question, I don't know why they would be so narrow minded, I am glad though that you are not. You seem like a reasonable Christian. Too bad there's not more like you, Christianity would have a better name for itself.

Answer 9

as long as the choices oppose the christian faith, you can be assured they will not be the best option for christians...

If the reformed christian can teach all those lessons you said.. why cant he? he is after all the best option to me as a christian if he is "reformed" ...

Answer 10

It's good to see someone has some sense (you.)

That's why I would never let my beliefs be known within the school I work at. I realize some Christians are fanatics that way, and it would make the school year more difficult than necessary.