What Do You Think & Why

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It seems as though Christians have a very negative view of anyone who isn't a Christian. I am curious to know how many non-Christians you are personally acquainted with and whether this experience leads you to conclude all non-Christians are foolish or immoral or evil or stupid or have emotional problems or whatever other opinion you might have.
By non-Christian I don't mean Catholics or non-Evangelicals or people who don't go to church. I mean atheists, agnostics, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Taoists, etc.

Respectfully and in the spirit of understanding,

Humanista
 
I should be careful myself....I have a friend who is muslim and when we talk about our beliefs, we never argue....strange right!! Well we are pretty good friends but also he looks like he wants to know a little more about Christianity. There are some people that want to test the Lord through us but we should really get away from that for they will see sooner or we might be the ones accountable.
 
actually, I find that most NON-Christians have issues with those who claim to be Christian..exactly a reversal. They enjoy using Christians as their reasons for not seeking CHRIST..the ONE in whom they really need to seek. As far as my personal viewpoint on Non-Christians...I was once one! I'm just a sinner, saved by grace!
 
I personally don't see non-Christians as being anymore evil or foolish than I am. I still sin. I'm still drawn to foolish arrogance when I choose to behave in ways other than how God wants me to. Emotional problems plague me from time to time, but my hope rests on Jesus' saving grace, and that alone. It was only when I realized that I'm (and anyone who'll accept His salvation) forgiven that I can look at everyone else and understand that God is no respecter of persons, and that all have sinned and come up short. None of us are worthy, and only by faith some of us are saved. That to me is the only difference between the two.
 
Humanista said:
It seems as though Christians have a very negative view of anyone who isn't a Christian. I am curious to know how many non-Christians you are personally acquainted with and whether this experience leads you to conclude all non-Christians are foolish or immoral or evil or stupid or have emotional problems or whatever other opinion you might have.
By non-Christian I don't mean Catholics or non-Evangelicals or people who don't go to church. I mean atheists, agnostics, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Taoists, etc.

Respectfully and in the spirit of understanding,

Humanista
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Jesus taught us to be humble. That doesn’t mean we all are humble, but we are supposed to be.
 
Humanista said:
It seems as though Christians have a very negative view of anyone who isn't a Christian. I am curious to know how many non-Christians you are personally acquainted with and whether this experience leads you to conclude all non-Christians are foolish or immoral or evil or stupid or have emotional problems or whatever other opinion you might have.
By non-Christian I don't mean Catholics or non-Evangelicals or people who don't go to church. I mean atheists, agnostics, Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, Taoists, etc.

Respectfully and in the spirit of understanding,

Humanista
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I've not been a Christian long, and I try and adopt the same view that people from my church had for me, during my 20 odd years as a non Christian. They prayed for me, and welcomed me whenever I did go to church, without judging, no matter what I was doing with my life at the time.
I try and show the same love to people, but as with any Christian, am fallible. Im aquainted mostly with non Christians
 
I have a fairly negative view of everybody. The majority of people I've met do have emotional problems, are foolish, lack intrinsic self-motivation, etc. We are mostly mastered by our egos and could use a dose of Christ, the Buddha, or any one of a number of teachers. Just because I think Tylenol is the best doesn't mean I'll laugh at you for using Ibuprofen, but if you refuse to take any medication, I will think you're suffering unnecessarily.

I truly believe we're all sinful creatures, but to me this doesn't mean we're prone to committing bad acts. It means that, until we've been graced to grow beyond ourselves, we will continue to respond reflexively and self-interestedly to whatever is in front of us. The Christian who drives aggressively to get out of the parking lot after church is just as stuck in sin as the drug addict. Neither has lost his life to find something bigger.

The ego can turn spirituality into another facet of itself - so self-identification as Christian might even be a sign a person is worse off than a guy who just lives. Everybody knows somebody who was a better person before he converted to ________. What does it matter what someone labels himself if he doesn't practice the content of the teachings?
 
If a christian is acting like he is better than a non-christian person, he or she isn't acting very christian. We are supossed to love everyone, love and humility are one of the most important things that Jesus teach us, despite that knowing not following God is the wrong way,you should try to help them in a good way maybee just say "hey want to come to my church some day? it would be fun" instead of having a bad attitude that doesn't help anybody causee believe me, i've been there, before i knew the truth, it annoyed me the way SOME christians were acting like if i wass a kind of evil and malicious person lol.
To get into peoplee, you must first really get to know them and respect their feeling , if not you're just pushing them more and more away from salvation and well thats my opinionn! =)
 
Just to put the other side in, of the christian friends I know (a fair few of them), we rarely (can't remember if ever) argue on the topic of theology. We've talked about our positions before, but I've never been pushed upon and vice versa (bringing the topic up in order to change them) so relationship wise it makes things easy. Whilst it does attach some importance to bring arguments up to make people question beliefs; presumption that the right beliefs are easier to back up and the false ones get found out, thats rarely something thrown between friends in the daily bustle of studying/playing/dinner... it'll arise when the timing feels right i'm sure when both party's are recipient.

Of those friends I keep, all of them are respectful human beings afaik, have some brain on them, I just feel that they have wrong beliefs on the theological issue.

I think, if I was to compare theologies, I don't really have much problem with beliefs that I percieve as having little negative effect, sure they can seem delusional, but it doesn't get under my skin. Its when because of such beliefs, harder practices come into play, such as social exclusion, condemnation, indoctrination, employment bias, blasphemy law and voting can swing things away as a response to what a secular (or a few strict 1st amendment supporting) person(s) would call acceptable, (work on the sabbath, not praising god) being the more minor offenses.
 
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