Christians, you do realize that the more you freak out about something...?

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... the more people are going to be curious and want to be part of it, right?

Rather like... Harry Potter, The Golden Compass, and yes, even sex.

You do realize that if you stopped freaking out about it, you wouldn't start the "forbidden fruit" thing and make everyone want to be part of it more than they ever would otherwise? Right?

And yes, YOU Christians do exactly that especially with kids who are looking for excitement and to protest against the establishment in the first place.

If you stopped freaking out about these thing, they wouldn't be so curious and it would be relegated to the back of their minds and forgotten much much more often.

Jenae, sorry but Harry Potter and The Golden Compass aren't in the same category as drugs. Not even remotely.

But you knew that didn't you and you're just trying to cause trouble? Oh yes, I get it.

primoa, then let me ask you this question... you are Christian, so what makes you think that your fellow Christians, even your children, don't know good from evil?

And to take that further... what makes you think that, in any first world nation where Christianity is the majority at something like 80% of the population, they wouldn't know what you Christians consider evil?

So why do you feel the need to freak out about it when we obviously already know what you consider evil?

After all, what you consider evil is all over books, movies, tv, newspapers, and magazine articles. Its not like we can escape what you Christians "consider evil" because you talk about it nonstop.

So why go on and on and on and on and on about it when no one is that stupid?

Big, the ONLY way to ensure that everyone is treated equally with so many religions in the world, is for Secularism to rule. Because thats what secularism is about.

Free... I could just hug you. You are a rarity among Christians.

I mean seriously, do Christians teach their children that there are demons under their bed so they don't wake up at night? Or do they teach them that the monster under the bed isn't real?

Jean, what are you smoking? Thats a load of crap. Go read a history book.

Answer 1

Im a Christian and Im going to have to agree with you. I dont always agree with everything we "freak out" about. I love Harry Potter and my kids read it, Ive got gay friends, and Im very open minded about sex.

Answer 2

Heh. My father freaked out about smoking when I was young, and I smoked 2 packs a day through college. Luckily I quit.

My children read Harry Potter ( I think it was mainly just extremists against harry Potter). Most Christians I know are OK with it, as it is ridiculous that someone would take it as real.

The Golden Compass is another matter, however. Mainstream Christianity is speaking out against it. I read the book when this hoopla came out, and I will let my children read them. It talks about a corrupt Church, so what? Mine isn't corrupt. It may have been 500 years ago, but I can use it as a lesson for my children.

Answer 3

Life is not the only thing in the universe that has a relative order, everything does. Even the quadrillions of planets or whatever in the universe without life. An Entire relative universe doesn't happen as a "freak accident. That wouldn't even be adequate explanation not even including the element of a Creator. A relative universe doesn't exist by "chance", it exists by "relationship" Nothing about a relative universe would be without relativity, such things are not even ever truly by mere "chance" they are by "relationships" near or remote,still, a matter of relativity. That's just plain common sense. Even to not include a Creator in explanation the universe could not exist, by "chance". It would be even an "inevitable" outcome of relationship. Not "chance, "inevitable". The universe is in fact, here That's what happened, such proves it was "inevitable". Not a role of some mystical cosmic dice. Something made it all relate. Something made it all inevitable. It would be something that it "relates" too, "inevitably". I myself, what I just can't understand is why so many people use so much intelligence to run around in circles in their head, but only to remain deliberately stupid, when the answers are actually, just plain common sense. Existence doesn't really require someone as smart as Albert Eisenstein to explain it. It apparently only requires someone as smart as Albert Eisenstein to get past all the bull crap everyone else has to spew out their mouth about it enough to get to explain it.

Answer 4

Ok, this is the biggest generalisation I have ever heard. I'm no Christian, but how the heck is it just Christians that freak out about stuff? Like they are all stern and mental about this stuff and everyone else is mellow and open minded about everything. Have you spoken to an athiest? Half the ones I've talked to are the most close minded people I've ever met, believing that exactly what they believe is right and nothing else ever could be.
I agree that highlighting stuff by forbidding or denouncing it is not the best way to stop people doing it but it has nothing to do with being a Christian. This sounds like a personal issue that you have taken global.

Answer 5

Haha I am so sure that hundreds of people who had no interest in Harry Potter suddenly flocked to the bookstores because a group of people that they do not respect said it was bad. Oh and I know plenty of people personally who were not interested in having sex until they heard a Christian say they shouldn't have it! hahaha very likely

GARY F.- Christians are not trying to rewrite the Constitution. It is the liberals who want to change everything. It's the conservative Christians who want to keep everything the same. Don't be unintelligent.

Answer 6

Hey, I think you made a mistake there... It's supposed to be "Extremist / Old Testament Chrisatians". Seriously, the huge majority of Christians aren't as extreme as to freak out because of HP!

Answer 7

instead of focusing on Christians, your question could apply to everyone.

some people like drama and telling others what to do - this is not a strictly Christian idiosyncracy...

i won't see the movie because i can't stand nicole kidman and her shrill, rhymes with witchy acting style.

i thought the books were great and i didn't read any of mr. pullman's atheist motivations into it and still don't. he doesn't get to tell me what to think when i read and neither does anyone else...

Answer 8

Don't make me throw and FAQ at you

I agree and I have asked such a question in the past
There are things that need protested.. This movie is not one of those

Answer 9

I don't freak out. Have you ever thought these think might be a test for christians. God test his children from time to time.

Answer 10

It works on me, I've never read harry potter...nor the compass.

And I'm not even a christian...