Are Christians the most judgemental group of people you have ever met?

Question

What real about your world sharon. Don't make me laugh. Go read the bible or something, numbskull.

I agree Laurence, Don't forget Tony Blair.

Sharon, I don't live in the U.S I am English, and I have traveled to most of Europe. Not that that has a lot to do with my question. My problem is with all organised religions but particularly christianity and Islam. I really think it does human kind no good to beleive in this kind of stuff, It is kind of childish and just makes us removed from the natural world and each other. The bible has been written and rewritten, not to mention edited. By whom man not God.

I think it is equal brain washing Jackie.

Andrew, fairy tale hell it is I will meet you there, lol.

Lone ranger I will climb out of my little box, If you climb off your high horse:-)

Hi searching, It's a good point but to me TV and the bible are not that different in there aims at least. both are brain washing propaganda. They are aimed at heavily influencing or contolling your thoughts and feelings and ultimately gaining control. I think they are equaly damaging.

Answer 1

YES!!! I was one of them so I can honestly say yes. They don't like people questioning their faith, they start telling you to study the bible etc but they love knocking other religions. I know not all xtians are like this but the majority are. I respect all religions but it is hard when they constantly put down your religion with no true basis. Then they start praying for you! Or tell you god has a plan for you!

Answer 2

And what does your question make you?

I think that being judgemental is a human condition and not the exculsive characteristic of any given group. It is easier to single out groups, especially based on the actions or words of a few people you may know.

However, just by wording the question the way you did and your comments to the answerers clearly marks you as a judgemental person, and hence a hypocrite for doing the same thing you are accusing others of doing.

Sharon was partially right. Climb out of your little box.

Better yet, get the beam out of your eye before you try to get the splinter out of anyone else's.

Answer 3

Definitely yes. I don't care if I get thumbs down. I grew up in a very Catholic judgmental home so I KNOW what went on THERE and in the church that I went too. NOBODY can say my past DID NOT happen. It did. I rather thought the part where all the Catholic church's in the Catskill region had no black people was strange. Also my mother and grandmother sat me down when I was seven and said I should "Stay with my own kind." They did not believe in mixed marriage or same sex relationships. So yes in MY experience the Christians ARE the MOST judgmental. THEY JUST CAN'T DEAL WITH BEING RECOGNIZED AS SUCH.

Answer 4

if you want to see true brainwashing keep track of how many commercials you view during one night of television, and in a 24 hour period how many suggestions are made to your mind as to what you should wear, what you should buy, what kind of person you should be. I am thinking the bible is a far better guide to how to live our lives than the shallow implications made to us everyday by television and radio, magazines and billboards. Why don't you start a hate campaign towards that propoganda? It's far more destructive and dangerous.

Answer 5

They are in my top five. Christians are the only people I know that will walk up to a person they do not know that well and tell them they are going to hell. Who die and made you GOD? Christians do not know what you are dealing with and yet they will be the first person to tell you that if you would just go to THEIR church you would be happy. I know that they mean well but I do not feel love when they try and help just judgment and that is way they are in my top five of the most judgmental group of people.

Answer 6

I wouldn't class all of them as such. There are a whole bunch of Christian folks on here that are truly decent, fair-minded people though.

Unfortunately though, a large proportion of them are, but then, a sizable proportion of the atheist community on here can also be extremely nasty. Oh well, every community has its bad apples.

Answer 7

Yes - I do agree

Edit: Take a look around at people like Fred Phelps or Pat Richardson or many of the homophobic bigots who are always very quick to judge. Thumbing me down doesn't alter the truth that there are some very judgemental christians out there.

Answer 8

Some are, some are not. You should not lump everyone into one big group. Some Christians are very decent people and do try to do right and make a difference in this world. It's just that the really judgmental ones make all the noise and get all the attention.

Answer 9

I would be very easy to say YES here, but if you analyze the word judgement, then I would have to say No.

To be judgemental, an adjective - of or concerning the use of judgement, or of having an excessively critical point of view.

But no religious person is truly critical, or they would be comparing their book to the facts that science has unearthed, and criticising the gaps within their own ancient scripts.

If they were truly judgemental, then they would be able to justify the reasons that they do not believe in another god, other than the one they follow. They however do not criticise their own faith to test it, but blindly follow a set of rules, or pretend to do so, and thus become judgemental by proxy

Based on our surroundings we can be programmed to believe that those who are outside our realm of beliefs will not enjoy the fruits of our own truths. If you fall into this group mentality, you are no longer applying your judgement to others, but a collective ideal.

We are judgemental because of our biological makeup, since we use our brains primitive functions to judge our surroundings (i.e whether or not we are in danger) we also use this function to judge people as well. But religious people stop to question their environment, and openly accept a version of it on blind faith, thus they inhibit their natural biological urge to investigate and make informed guesses about things.

Religious organizations can foster what appears to be judgemental behaviour through the discourse of the philosophy of exclusion, meaning ONLY those who believe in such and such faith are deemed worthy of God's love and mercy. But it is not judgement, but a form of religious racism, and its a problem to all the major religions, not just the Christians.

Answer 10

"Christians" are individuals, just like everyone else. So I take them one by one and speak as I find.
I have to say a lot of people on Y!A are judgemental, Christians and non-Christians alike.
So there you go. It's about HUMANS, not about group generalisations.