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I find it weird how many hardcore christians are rude to people who don't think like them. Jesus literally preached that you shall love everyone, even your enemies. Looking down on others seems un-christian to me.
Christ also taught that if someone was not receptive to your message, to just move on to others. Not to berate them.
Unfortunately, there are hateful people in every group, especially in the extremist parts. They don't even realize how much they're hurting their own cause by acting the way they do.
Passionate people usually have larger expressions and emotional backings, this is true for any creed, profession, hobby, ideology, party, etc. People who care, will behave like they care.
I don’t see this as an exclusively Christian problem at all
I like passionate people so personally I don’t mind it, even if they’re 3 seconds from biting my head off.
Devils advocates, pacifists, fence-riders, bystanders, bleh yuck. Speed bumps in the road.
For politeness sake I think it’s rude to harass your opinion on to those who aren’t trying to be a part of a conversation, but even while I’m typing this every neuron in my brain is telling me a million trillion reasons why the world would be a zillion times better if we bullied people into caring more about things.
Atheists can be like this too, extremely rude to people with beliefs. But unlike christians, they're not following a moral code that clearly dictates that you should love everyone.
Yeah, try to force someone else to care about something because you care about it. What a wonderful world.
If we were able to successfully force all people to care about, for example, animal welfare - and do away with all those unable to be converted - we would indeed be one step closer to a wonderful world
Forcing people to care about something because you care about it won't make the world this wonderful place. It wouldn't even work.
Also, if anything, you'd be making the world worse. I don't know why it's so hard for your kind to accept that your way is not the only way, and it doesn't need to be.
Its the opposite. Liberals push their woke bullshit on christians and then play the victim when christians dont like them. The liberals want to teach transgender bullshit in schools and everything. In cali its mandatory to graduate and theyre trying to push that everywhere.
History shows it's quite normal; their religion might not have spread so far otherwise.
Normal but not impartial, the one problem to solve is only to be a Christian or you'll suffer them holy wars, ideally you would be or not be Christian any way you do want.
It's normal as in common, but not normal as its contrary to their beliefs.
All zealots are rude. Wouldnt be a zealot if they weren't.
Just be glad these zealots are just rude. Not cutting your head off zealots.
There's too much generalization and not enough context here. Like what do you consider rude? Jesus was considered rude to the people he called out. He was loud when he called them hypocrites.
I know that there are certainly those out there who use the bible out of context for their own pleasure, but there's an important thing to understand about Jesus:
God hates, and Jesus is God, so Jesus hates. Jesus loved by boldly and firmly speaking the truth, not by speaking soft deceptions. Jesus is not the happy hippy guy that vain imaginations have concocted.
Proverbs 6:16-19 - "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."
Hosea 9:15 - "All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters."
Religious fanatics don't practice what they preach. They just want everyone to think and act like they do. And it's not only the Christians. Islam is supposed to be the religion of peace according to the Quran and look at how many they killed on 9/11. Judaism is supposed to be the religion of Talmudic law and look at how many Palestinians they've murdered. I could go on.
Some people are just hypocrites. There's no other reason. As Kholat has said, it's not just a Christian issue. It's an issue with *all* religious groups.
We just notice it more with Christianity in the west. This is partially due to the various forms of Christianity being the most prevalent religion here, but it's also due to a sizable portion of Christians just...not actually understanding their religion. There are a lot of Religious-In-Name-Only people in the world. These people only follow the absolute base level rules of their religion and often misinterpret them to suit another moral compass. Additionally, a lot of people simply do not study their holy hooks.