U2isthebest
ONE love, blood, life
As a Christian, I really would like a perspective from those of other faiths or no religious faith on how the body of Christ, whether as individuals or communaly, has failed. Obviously, being a Christian doesn't make any of us perfect (although it would seem that way from the self-righteousness of many Believers) I often feel we use this excuse as a reason to subtly, or not subtly, pass judgement on others. I, of course, know there's a great deal of hypocrisy, closemindedness, and judgement in the church that makes the credibility of Christians irreparably damaged in many peoples' eyes. I'd like to see some of you who are non-Believers to expand on those common problems, maybe with personal anecdotes, or to simply broaden your issues with Christians/ity to other areas as well. I don't really want this to veer off into the topic of (why does God?... if God exists, then how come?... etc.) I feel like that's gone over enough here and many other places as well. I'd really like this thread to be about the problems with Christianity and the crap hole of a job we've done in really being Jesus in this world. I'm sick of other Christians sweeping this under the rug with statements like, "They just know that we have the truth and they don't, so they hate us." There's an issue deeper than that. Non-Believers in Jesus' day loved being around him. He spent most of his time with the people the religious considered the scum of the earth. He wasn't in his little holy huddle at church trying to hide from the big, bad world. Yet, we as Christians do the exact opposite. It pisses me off to no end. I think I might be going OT here so I'll end. For other Christians, that might want to answer the non-Believers' questions here, or respond to posts: Please don't do so in an offensive or defensive manner. Simply try and be unbiased and understand where they're coming from.