The all new, totally accepted, bigotry thread - "Blame a Christian"

[CaptainF]

mocking silly beliefs aint bigotry

This!

I don't see how Christians (or any other religious group) even if they believe this stuff can't find it at least a bit ridiculous.

 

[Old Hippy]

I never mock Christains.... I'm too busy fighting against their institutions, as it seems most Christians have through history

 

[Cutlass]

I know a number of people who fit in none of those boxes

And? Why does that matter a lot?

 

[History_Buff]

Hate is in the hidden motives of anti-Christian writers and thinkers, they just cannot stand the fact that people still believe in Christianity.

The 'anti-Christian' writers and thinkers you're no doubt referencing aren't opposed to people believing in Christianity, they're opposed to people believing in any tribal superstitious nonsense. The distinction is important.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Why exactly don't christians want to be free?

 

[Berzerker]

I'd have nothing but respect for Christians if they were in reality following Jesus' moral teachings, the only difference I can see between most of them and me is I dont call myself a Christian.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

I'd have nothing but respect for Christians if they were in reality following Jesus' moral teachings, the only difference I can see between most of them and me is I dont call myself a Christian.

And this.

And, more Christians should read Kierkegaard.

 

[GhostWriter16]

And then there are Catholics...

Could they perhaps fit into the interpretist group? (Believe the Bible but don't take most of it literally?)

Then again, there's no such thing as a 100% Biblical literalist, unless you believe a beast isgoing to literally pop out of the sea, there's obviously some symbolism in Scripture.

 

[_random_]

Christians are routinely rejected by their family and society when they come out.

This one is legit in plenty of places.

No, sorry. I think that Christianity does bear some moral responsibility for portraying some OT characters as heroic or saintly.

You cannot worship something that used to be evil, call it unchanging, and then expect a moral pass.

I have heard a pretty compelling case for a transient God, although I've yet to hear Christians outside Marcion say that He used to be evil.

 

[timtofly]

This one is legit in plenty of places.

I have heard a pretty compelling case for a transient God, although I've yet to hear Christians outside Marcion say that He used to be evil.

I assume that he was referring to Christianity as a 5th century A.D. phenomenon.

 

[Vylinius]

I never said my categories were perfect its basically my stereotypes for all Christians that includes Mormons and Catholics. In fact the majority of Mormons and Catholics I've met I would fit into the last category. However, I could also say the majority of Catholic public figures I know of I would place into either of the first two categories.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

To make myself clear by anti-Christian authors I mean Marx, Neitsche, Dawkins, and other people who make up ridiculous lies about the religion, and claim that it creates oppression.

Darwin, even though I can't stand his writings, is not an ant-Christian writer.

 

[Cutlass]

To make myself clear by anti-Christian authors I mean Marx, Neitsche, Dawkins, and other people who make up ridiculous lies about the religion, and claim that it creates oppression.

Darwin, even though I can't stand his writings, is not an ant-Christian writer.

So a trivial amount of fringe people make up a totally accepted bigotry? I bet 19 out of 20 people or more have no real concept of what Marx, Neitsche, or Dawkins have had to say on the subject of religion.

 

[Tee Kay]

I don't mock Christians (well, non-crazy ones). However I do mock the suggestion that Christians, at least in the West, is a persecuted group.

If people don't believe in Jesus and tell you why, that's not hate. If people point out all the horrible things people did in the name of Christianity, that's history, and it was probably in response to some self-righteous comment about the purity and goodness of Christians and the evils of other ideologies.

 

[History_Buff]

To make myself clear by anti-Christian authors I mean Marx, Neitsche, Dawkins, and other people who make up ridiculous lies about the religion, and claim that it creates oppression.

Yeah, but these guys didn't hate Christians. Their objections are wider than that.

 

[Lord Gay]

It's hard to deny all the mocking and hate directed towards Christians in Western society, it's become a "cool" thing to make fun of Christians.

Could you provide some examples or links? I'd like to better understand what you mean.

it's the duty of good Christians to slap down bad Christians. When they fail to do so, they have no right to be not lumped together with them.

Thank you!

 

[Tee Kay]

I don't think we really want to be applying guilt by association.

 

[civ_king]

I don't think we really want to be applying guilt by association.

Hitler had an ancestor who was Jewish therefore Jews are Nazis?

 

[Formaldehyde]

So a trivial amount of fringe people make up a totally accepted bigotry? I bet 19 out of 20 people or more have no real concept of what Marx, Neitsche, or Dawkins have had to say on the subject of religion.

Not to mention they are hardly "bigoted" views. Criticizing religion is not bigotry unless one does so for irrational reasons.

 

[GamezRule]

Who better to personify the Christian's struggle in the United States then Rick Perry?!


Link to video.