Well thanks for the compliment! We Christians are called to be the salt of the earth, and we need to stay salty or we will lose our flavor and become garbage.
To be fair, there are alot of ignorant Christians (even pastors) out there. Not everyone, including myself, has a doctorate in hermeneutic or theology. Sadly, some pastors don't know what they're talking about and it gives Christianity an "ignorant" tone. I implore you to try some other churches, if you want to. Maybe you'll find a somewhat decent church/pastor.
Kudos to you for your neutral reply despite having your beliefs bashed.
So I guess everyone like Abraham went to Hell? I never liked that worldview. It basically turns us into an exclusive cult ruled by a culture of fear.To be fair, if you don't believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, who lived on Earth as fully God and fully man, died for your sins, resurrected, and ascended to heaven, then you're probably going to hell. Rough, I know, but it's how it works. However, I don't think the "fire and brimstone" approach isn't really the best way to convert people to Christianity, especially nowadays.
I'm a Christian, and if you ever have any questions or want to talk about Christianity or anything, hit me up. I like discussing theology and things of that matter.
Let me guess, one of those anachronistic Jesus is the "Sun of God" theories? even though Son and Sun are only similar in modern English?
Sounds like the Christians you met were all paranoid nut cases. Of course I don't blame you for your hostility, I experienced a lot of the same behavior and I sympathize for anyone who experienced an environment like that. Worst of all, they think they're doing the "right" thing and a lot of the time they've totally given their minds away to an abusive set of beliefs.
I experienced the same for a little bit. My parents thought pokemon was evil cuz animals had powers but they eventually gave way to that kind of believing and became more loving. Most of the Christians I hear being described in this thread do not even potray what they believe in. For argument purposes Christians follow Jesus or are supposed to strive to be like him. Jesus spent time with sinners and never did judge or preach the way the Christians people are describing in this thread do. It kinda hurts to get bashed when people say they "are all ignorant", or "all crazy" without giving the slightest possibility of a good Christian because of your experiences. I myself know a lot of preachers don't know how to teach chrisitianity, and a lot of people do not know how to go the right way about introducing your beliefs to someone else. A lot of them do think they can just sin and ask god for forgiveness, a lot of them think they are right but none of us are perfect. If I introduce my religion I don't say "you know you're going to hell if you don't" nor do I think metabots is demonic. LMFAO. I do find it funny that the same people who judge Christians do not want to be judged by Christians. I have atheist friends, Muslim friends, and sometimes we talk about religion but if one doesn't want to believe in the other we don't piss our pants out of anger and hit people with our religious books. Due to past experiences people will already assume that everyone who is a Christian "thinks they're perfect, is looking down on me, they act like they so special, so judgemental, so hypocritical, we know what they like on the inside." I don't understand how we can judge a group unjustly when we don't like being judged unjustly ourselves, but is the other person who is crazy for doing the same as you.
I agree with most of this post, however on the experience level: almost every single atheist I ever came across was a troublemaker, making fun of others for their beliefs as if they are so superior, and just plain ignorant, hate-filled and stupid. There's only 1 atheist friend I have, and that is because he is not what most of the small community is: a bunch of ignorant degenerates that spread their hate to every spiritual or religious person.
Yeah I've had that same experience bruh, Mostly online is when most of it is bad. In RL most people have been kinda reasonable toward me but they don't get as bad as a rep as Christians. When an atheist judges Christians and spreads the hate no one is like an atheist is so judgmental and self righteous but if we do the same thing "sound the alarm!" LOL I try to
Same thing here lol. It's very sad and pathetic, most of them hide behind their pc screens and talk all that smack, but in person they don't get nearly as mouthy because I do not tolerate discrimination towards race and or beliefs or any kind, really. They are just a glorified crew, nothing more, nothing less. I exclude the actual intelligent and decent ones from that crew, though.
Nope, not at all. Your average atheist respects ppl's beliefs, silently disagreeing with them. Friend of mine got forced to go to church with his girlfriend and he went, saw and heard lots of silly things but keeps his opinion to himself. So do I.
Nope, I got plenty of em on my hit list that just don't know how to respect anything other then their pathetic disbeliefs. And it's a good thing I'm not the only one on here who can say such things. However, I understand where you're coming from, but don't try and defend them, ok?
I forgot to add that what I said only counts for rl situations. Different story online.
