(August 10, 2020 at 2:13 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:Pointing out the difference between some and all is as trivial as your larger point.(August 10, 2020 at 1:42 pm)Ranjr Wrote: Do you mean that when I see a sizable number of Christians using crusader imagery and calling themselves "prayer warriors," I can't point to that as a well represented attribute of Christians because I haven't sampled and done statistical analysis on all Christians? Be mindful that this is not how I represent them. It's how they represent themselves.
Just be mindful that a sizeable portion of a population is in fact a sizeable portion of a population and not the entire the population.
If they call themselves prayer warriors, call them prayer warriors. Don't call them by a different synonym that carries with it a different connotation. Such as "militant communicators of an invisible sky fairy." That's a misrepresentation.
Prayer warriors ask god for favors as a group effort, a pooling of prayer requests. I can characterize that in other ways without misrepresenting the activity. So, while I agree terms like "magic man in the sky" and talk of fairies have a tone of insult, they also bring a different perspective to christian behaviors that do not necessarily misrepresent the behavior.