RE: What are the Characteristics of a NT Christian?
April 5, 2017 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: April 5, 2017 at 11:47 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(April 5, 2017 at 10:34 am)Faith No More Wrote: It makes me think that the Christians here that talk about Christians being thankful and not hating are not paying attention to a huge chunk of very vocal Christians in this country. All you have to do is watch some of the religious channels or make a quick search on YouTube to see that many, many Christians use their religion as an excuse to spew vitriol and hatred.
I do not know of any discipline from particle physics to wood-working where everyone agrees 100% on everything. Are physicists with differing views on high-temperature superconductivity not TRUE physicists? I doubt very much that you will only vote from politicians with whom you agree 100%. Is a pro-choice, pro-union, climate change activist Democrat not a TRUE Democrat just because he or she is NRA supporter?
Occasionally I listen to religious radio, from Alistair Begg to Chuck Swindoll. Both are extremely conservative IMHO and yet I'm not hearing any vitriol or hatred in their preaching. Have you ever listened to Unbelievable? That show is very popular in the UK and by podcast. Even when the topics are extremely controversial the conversations are civil and well within the mainstream. For example, Robert Gagnon is probably one of the most vocal defenders of the traditional bible-based view on homosexuality but nothing he says or writes is in anyway hateful, unless of course, you consider any opposition to homosexual practices to be hateful by definition. I can't help you with that. Anyways, the main point is that you can find all kinds of rabid, wild-eyed people on the internet on just about any topic imaginable and its not reasonable to judge 2.2 billion believers based on YouTube rants.
