I attend a private Christian university in Texas (Baylor University, sic 'em Bears!) and all incoming freshman are required to take two classes, Chapel and Religious Scriptures. Well today at Chapel we had a really awesome speaker come and talk to us, and he told us about one of the projects he worked on. I can't remember the name of the project, but he traveled to all 50 states in the US and polled people the following question: "If you could use one word to describe Christians, what would you use?"
The top three were anti-gay, judgemental, and hypocritical. Other words that were used were hateful, condescending, and excluding.
The saddest part of it all was that the word which describes the entirety of Christianity was no where at the top of the list; love
And so I come to TL and ask all of you, if you could use any one word to describe Christians, what word would you use?
Dude, I don't think this thread is going to make you happy. TL generally trends toward the "fuck religion" side of things (although not everyone is like that).
besides anti-gay, judgemental,hypocritical,hateful, condescending and excluding?
i think narrow-minded hits it quite well... [add the normal stuff like, "think they have the only and all-solving belive" "their god is the greatest" "there is no other thing" "explain science than? cant? HA we won" or "evolution is crap" here]
On October 10 2013 01:19 PaqMan wrote: Yeah I know there's going to be a ton of negative responses, I'm still curious to see what people on TL think
It seems to me that what you really want is confirmation for the belief that the people on the "outside" are inherently hostile due to having a misconstrued or misguided view of your religion.
really hard with one word to be honest do you want to describe christians or christianity cuz u say both for christianity id probably go with cancerous for christians it would be (since anti-gay counts as 1 word aswell!) mind-boggingly condescendingly ignorant
anti-gay, judgemental, hypocritical, hateful, condescending, excluding, narrow-minded all suit pretty well. There's a lot of good in christianity, but it gets overshadowed by the bad.
On October 10 2013 01:09 theBALLS wrote: why bother with a thread like this? It's cool to be anti christian on the internet.
The word "cool" is also something passé, belonging to the sugary, colourful world of the 1990's. The inhabitants of this website are showing their age. My basic posture for the last decade has been anti-anti-Christian, because I am more avant garde than the lot of you.
Christians? One word? Uhm, Narrow-minded, Brainwashed, Judgemental, Hypocritical all fit well, do not know which one to pick. On a more serious note: what did you really expect asking this here?
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