EPTAnyone who thinks they can describe such an ideologically fragmented group with a single word is... dunno...
Judgemental, hateful and condescending?
Describing Christianity - Page 2
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spinesheath
Germany8679 Posts
Anyone who thinks they can describe such an ideologically fragmented group with a single word is... dunno... Judgemental, hateful and condescending? | ||
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Ettick
United States2434 Posts
On October 10 2013 01:51 lolfail9001 wrote: 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? That's a pretty narrow-minded, judgmental, and hypocritical post; you seem pretty brainwashed. | ||
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Vegetarian Wolf
China434 Posts
On October 10 2013 00:49 PaqMan wrote: 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? Christians. | ||
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Sejanus
Lithuania550 Posts
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Bacillus
Finland1854 Posts
I know some really wonderful Christian people. When I'm with them, they usually don't bring up their religion or anything. I just feel they're friends, relatives and whatever they are as people, not particularly labeled by their religious view. We respect each other and get along well enough. Some of these people are among the sweetest, most reasonable and most loving and forgiving people I've met so far in my life. Meanwhile I also know a few people who quite strongly label themselves as Christians and connect strongly to the Christian communities and such. They often take very strong viewpoints based on their religious belief and bring up the Christianity in your everyday talk without any particular connection to religion. The situations where the religion get brought up by them can rarely be described in very positive tone. Descriptions like judgemental, ignorant and naive come to mind at times. I guess being quietly religious is a very Skandinavian approach to this in general. Religion is considered to be private property and people may feel quite uncomfortable when someone brings them into a context that isn't particularly related to personal beliefs. So, usually when you hear about religion in particular, it has an uneasy or negative twist in it. | ||
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Salv
Canada3083 Posts
That's not to suggest all Christians are like this though and as an atheist from a semi-religious family I understand where some people are coming from when describing their faith. | ||
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Salv
Canada3083 Posts
On October 10 2013 01:45 MoltkeWarding wrote: 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 narcissistic than the lot of you. | ||
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farvacola
United States18814 Posts
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packrat386
United States5077 Posts
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
Anyway, if I had to choose one word to describe christianity, I would choose forgiveness, or redemption. I want to use vicarious redemption, but those are two words. I think that is the most central part of the religion; although you deserve to feel god's wrath for all eternity, he forgives you if you believe that Jesus exists, and you accept his punishment in your stead. Another canditate is self-contradicting (I think this is one word). Bleak is also a good one, as that is what my outlook on life and the universe would be if I was a christian. Or perhaps depressing. I will elaborate: Most of the people I know are going to be tortured forever (or at least feel god's wrath forever, depending on how you interpret things), and there is nothing I can do about it, because they can't believe without, or in spite of, evidence, and the universe is ruled by a creature who could change this, but does not. I would definitely be depressed if I was a christian. That's a pretty narrow-minded, judgmental, and hypocritical post; you seem pretty brainwashed. great argument | ||
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rel
Guam3521 Posts
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vlaric
United States412 Posts
-idiotic -weak -illogical -backwards -inferior | ||
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lolfail9001
Russian Federation40186 Posts
On October 10 2013 01:57 Ettick wrote: That's a pretty narrow-minded, judgmental, and hypocritical post; you seem pretty brainwashed. Yeah, i have a clue about the 1 word to describe all Christians, but i cannot express it. For now, i will just use word: Christian. All the adjectives i mentioned are the extreme examples of it. | ||
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Entertaining
Canada793 Posts
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Meadowlark
United States349 Posts
I also think it's really interesting that so many people think that "love" is a good one-word descriptor of Christianity. Shouldn't a description distinguish what it's describing? Or are you actually suggesting that love is a uniquely Christian trait? | ||
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
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Release
United States4397 Posts
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HeeroFX
United States2704 Posts
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Meadowlark
United States349 Posts
On October 10 2013 06:12 Birdie wrote: The problem with this question is that I daresay anyone who calls themselves a Christian is then qualified to "be a Christian", when the majority of supposed Christians in the Western world are just nominal Christians, calling themselves that because it's the social norm. Within the group of people calling themselves Christians there is a massive wide variety of beliefs and ways of life, many of which are not in fact "Christian". I disagree. You're claiming that many people are Christians-in-name-only, but in order to claim that you need a solid definition of what it is to be "truly Christian", which is way harder to produce than you might think. | ||
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vOdToasT
Sweden2870 Posts
On October 10 2013 06:31 Meadowlark wrote: I disagree. You're claiming that many people are Christians-in-name-only, but in order to claim that you need a solid definition of what it is to be "truly Christian", which is way harder to produce than you might think. Any one can come up with a version of "Christ", follow that version, and therefor be "christian". You are absolutely right. They could even ignore everything in the bible because it was edited, and they could simply say Christ wouldn't agree with what's in the book. | ||
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