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Recently I have occasionally had occasion to think about Christians. I have sometimes thought: apart from the religious bit, they're quite good, aren't they?

Does anyone have anything positive to say about Christians and the way they behave? Should more of us be like them?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the saving/converting/recruiting-mentality is my only problem with.

it seems like a good life for those that have/want it.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Guilty horny catholic girls?

― ModJ, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i was raised loosely Presbyterian. i think i turned out okay.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

also what is it with Christian blokes always wearing old looking brown sandals?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Church rummage sales are fantastic.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

John D to thread. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

DV to thread?

― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

School uniforms rule!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

very funny Ned

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

DV to thread?

nerrrr, I'm a Tobist.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Guilty horny catholic girls?

*flogs ModJ mercilessly with a very dry noodle*

p.s.: I'm a guilty Catholic girl, but I'm not horny. Maybe a bit confused as to whether to feel proud or pathetic about my lack of experience in this realm, but certainly not horny.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Their bingo nights are good fun, too.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I sometimes wish I were Christian, just because it seems that it's easier that way. You don't have to fret dying, nor do you have to worry about making the right decision, because your life lies in god's hands. Like when anything goes wrong my grandmother sighs and says it was god trying to teach her a lesson, or it was god's will, or yadda yadda. I just can't believe. I'm faithless and sad.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

apart from the religious bit, they're quite good, aren't they?

Er, what distinguishes Christians from non-Christians if not religion?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Some people who pay attention to the basic tenets of Christianity are very open-minded, forgiving, caring, compassionate people. Very few Christians seem to be of this type, but they exist.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(such as "judge not lest ye be judged"...it's funny how many Christians ignore the basics of their own dogma)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

religion is not easy, and we do not get the answers on a silver platter, we do not all seek out convert heathens and many of us belive in jesus because we think it will make the world better--ie the feeding of the hungry and the clothing of the naked.

that said christianity has as many assholes as any ideology, and our history is filled with violent anc capricous cruelty.

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not, nor have I ever been a Christian (although I went to Sunday school as a child). During a very traumatic period of my life, where my personal (non-Christian) beliefs were very severely tested, I discovered that I could fit my dilemma into Christian theological terms fairly easily (grace and works, sin and redemption, and so on). It helped me to understand the attraction of Catholic conversion for people like TS Eliot and other earnest intellectuals with traumatic lives.

However dogmatic their approach, all of the philosophic talent of really brilliant people like Duns Scotus, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine and the early church fathers was channeled through the medium of Christian (Catholic) theology for a period of about one thousand years. They may have been limited in their materials to whatever the Church thought police allowed, but they were keenly interested in real philosophic problems of ultimate concern. By dint of constant hacking and shaping, they built up a philosophic system that has a lot of value, even if it does come packaged in a rather perverse form.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

fifteen years pass...

really hate having a christian family. nephews are over and think my music collection is "dumb and weird" because all they've been exposed to is christian radio/christian schools/christian shows (with the occasional pixar/disney/jurassic park movies thrown in). not to say i'm an athiest, but i truly despise anything that narrows the mind and paints secular stuff as uncouth. my nephew's face when he saw the song title god is a woman was pretty funny

― montoya (Ross), Monday, 8 October 2018 01:34 (seven years ago)

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