I see the argument you are trying to make. I consider myself to have generally Christian beliefs, and I too have sometimes seen some of the arguments and whatnot that some extreme Christians or Bible literalists make about more or less insignificant things. I personally don't take the Bible to be 100% literal and it honestly does upset me a little bit when some Christians will use scare tactics to try and get others to do what they think is right by saying that the alternative is evil and that people will be punished for it.
Or what really gets me sometimes is how some Christians say that I couldn't possibly be a Christian if I don't believe everything they do about the religion. Religion is kind of personal in my opinion... it's how you choose to kind of connect spiritually with the world around you. Just following a book word for word or doing what a group of people say because they say "it's in the Bible" is more or less a Cult.
But anyways, getting back on track... The thing to remember is that most Christians are not like what you described. It is a small number of extreme people that believe and preach that kind o stuff. And if you search pretty much anything on the internet, you can probably find something or someone that will promote it. So the thing to keep in mind is that you are dealing with a very small sample of people that choose to be on the internet and write that stuff. Most Christians do not write or preach anything really, and just go about their lives and keep their beliefs to themselves and their families.
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I see the argument you are trying to make. I consider myself to have generally Christian beliefs, and I too have sometimes seen some of the arguments and whatnot that some extreme Christians or Bible literalists make about more or less insignificant things. I personally don't take the Bible to be 100% literal and it honestly does upset me a little bit when some Christians will use scare tactics to try and get others to do what they think is right by saying that the alternative is evil and that people will be punished for it.
Or what really gets me sometimes is how some Christians say that I couldn't possibly be a Christian if I don't believe everything they do about the religion. Religion is kind of personal in my opinion... it's how you choose to kind of connect spiritually with the world around you. Just following a book word for word or doing what a group of people say because they say "it's in the Bible" is more or less a Cult.
But anyways, getting back on track... The thing to remember is that most Christians are not like what you described. It is a small number of extreme people that believe and preach that kind o stuff. And if you search pretty much anything on the internet, you can probably find something or someone that will promote it. So the thing to keep in mind is that you are dealing with a very small sample of people that choose to be on the internet and write that stuff. Most Christians do not write or preach anything really, and just go about their lives and keep their beliefs to themselves and their families.