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Stereo Typing
Christians
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Adherents.com
estimates that their are about 2.1 Billion Christian people
on earth.
This number represents 33% of the world population. These people are
spilt
into at least 31 different major categories. While many of them have
the
main creed of Christianity in common, not all of them do. We all have
differences
of opinion, I have even noticed differences of opinion in cult members
that
aren't supposed to differ at all from their leader's current statements
of
faith. Even though I wish we didn't have so many differences, it
is
not surprising that we do have differences, after all we are people
just
like everyone else. Even well informed people differ all of the time.
The disagreements even in the scientific community are
staggering.
In discussions with non Christians they almost
always throw our
different denominations in our face at one point during the
conversation, but yet in that same conversation they will find
something horrible that only
one sect of "Christians" is
responsible for
and
place the blame on all 2.1 Billion
"Christians".
This is just as unreasonable as picking out a couple of people of a
certain color that have done bad things and saying that all people of
that color
are bad. When this happens point out to the person you are
talking
to that only one group of people who claimed to be "Christian"
did that horrible thing, and that
kind
of behavior is a big part of the reason that we have so many different
groups
of Christians. We as people have the right and responsibility to defend
our
most important beliefs, and from time to time in order to defend our
beliefs
we have to make a spilt from people who have major differences from us.
The atheist should be grateful that splits occurred in those groups
that behaved
in horrible fashion. If the spilt did not happen the bad actions
of
the few would have spread, but when a spilt happens it weakens the
evil,
and sometimes causes the main group to rethink their actions.
Since "Christians"
have so many
different splinter groups their is really only one safe form of
stereo-typing
Christians that I knew of, and that is via the Bible. Christians are
supposed
to be followers of Christ, so if you find out what Christ thought or
did
via careful study of the Bible, you can come up with a stereo
type,
and if someone or some group does something terribly out of line
with
what the Bible says, you can tell the person you are talking to "That
is
not something Christ would have agreed with, and Christianity isn't
about
it's so-called followers, they can't save you. It's about
Christ."
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When
the word Christian is placed in quotes I am using the term very
loosely,
meaning someone
or group that
calls
themselves Christian, but they are not necessarily telling the truth.
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Testimony?
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The
Apostle's Creed
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