Are Christians creepy?

[Zenith]

My question to you tonight is, do you automatically think someone is creepy when they say they are a Christian, or is it just when they try to convert you?

I live in a christian country (in a manner of speaking), mostly orthodox. "In a manner of speaking", because most of them are that kind of people that outside say "who knows if God exists or not", "It seems that Jesus' story is a lie", and when they go to churches or monasteries (on occasions such as passover, excursions), they light candles, write notes for the priests to pray for them, kiss the bones of who knows what saint, etc. So their devotion does not scare me. However, "protestant" (or, whatever denomination he/she says) rings a bell - they are usually either a) very devoted to their religion, try to be good, but only talk about religion and are unreasonable when you contradict them, or b) they are doing worse than any ordinary non-religious man (cheating, hating, try to bring anybody or everybody down so that themselves would rise, etc.), but consider themselves saints and superior to everyone else.

I myself am massively creeped out by the Bible Network and several real-life Christians I've met. I believe I mentioned earlier that it triggers my fight-or-flight reflex.

It happens very rarely when I'm not creeped out by a religious christian. That's because too few of them know anything about what they're talking about. Instead, most aren't able even to handle a debate, are superficial, stubborn, 100% certain that all they know is the absolute truth, too eager to teach others how things really are and what others should really do, they are not able to think or believe anything that is outside of the pattern they lived and believe in, and can't believe that it's possible for their pastors and magazines and books and things they've read and listened to and watched, to be all wrong in a point (though they may be wrong in everything, they can't imagine to be even in a single point).

When I see a very religious man, I can only think about pastors shouting when preaching, religious fanatics accusing and blaming you, eager to impose their full authority over you, looking at you as to a corrupted heretics and blasphemer, and looking to people around as to corrupted people that deserve hell (which looks as if they wish it).

Follow up question, how would you react to someone "telling you about the Gospel" in a nice way? Is it always offensive/enraging/however it makes you feel?

The first thing I would do is seriously doubt his intelligence and what he knows about what he's talking about: One of the most annoying thing when talking to people is to see them over-confident, brave, sometimes even arrogant, believing that they are smart and know everything (and, everything right) and that everybody else (i.e. one who sees things differently) is stupid, AND you realize that they don't know what they're talking about (i.e. they've studied very little to nothing, etc.). And it happens a lot.

I know a lot of churches have Evangelism classes, but one of my favorite professors says they "teach people how to be socially inappropriate." What if someone took the time to get to know you, then tried to subtly bring up the Gospel a lot? More or less creepy?

They certainly teach people to be socially inappropriate. The whole idea of the mission to convert people is creepy, ESPECIALLY when they teach that everybody should do it - because the result is that a lot of people that don't know anything, go to teach others, don't even care about the issues they face and never care thinking about them. They just believe they have to tell "Jesus Christ is the Son of God. The Bible is true. Believe!" and some miracle happens that God makes some people believe it. And it's more annoying when you see the same patterns, over and over again, and you realize that all what that religious man says is not from his own conclusions (what he thought of himself), but only a repetition of what his pastor said. In fewer words, the result is a lot of idiots that annoy everybody else with their 'truths' and try to scare people with hell in order to indoctrinate them in their own beliefs.

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I just got banned from worthychristianforums.com.

Yep. I didn't break any rules. I didn't curse. I didn't name call or throw insults. I simply replied to the thread: What would you ask God if you met him.

And my answer was:

God, why do you insist that your followers kill everyone that doesn't know you?

I of course sited several verses for examples - and was very quickly banned.
Interesting, I followed the rules to the letter and still got kicked out immediately, and yet those same assclowns can come on this site, break all the rules, and we will still allow them the courtesy to present their arguments for a considerable amount of time.

typical fucking christians

Just curios: what did you think of when you've joined that site and started to ask those questions? What did you expect? Seriously.