One of the greatest joys of Christianity is diversity. Another is the different stages of maturity in the Christian walk, we are all different, yet all created by God. Christians seem more judgemental and beligrent toward each other than those in the world.
Its a sad broken world with sad broken people.
I hope the world ends this year.
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I answered evey question you asked, now I am bored so I am moving on. Call it running away if you choose. I dont mind
I agree with you about the diversity.
But I disagree with you on Christians being more judgemental and belligerent.
Having lived in Muslim, Buddhist and Christian based communities, as well as mixed with ALOT of atheists and agnostics I can tell you pretty much spreads similar with other religions (or lack of it).
When you have a large group of people from various cultures, upbringings, viewpoints, and personalities try to adhere to a set of beliefs - differences happen, disagreements occur, siege mentalities develop.
We humans tend to band together, single out differences even if we are within the same group (example, Christians will shun certain Christians with different viewpoints. Sunni Muslims hate Shias, etc) and this has always been so in human society.
Its sad that Christians do it too...I used to think its a broken world too - but when you read about the histories of the past, read about other religions, expose yourself to new ideas - you realise sometimes how good we have it, people of today.
We in the West tend to think our lives are terrible and the world as we know it (the "west") is full of crappy people who are mean, empty, ignorant, etc etc - but its really not true.
Spend a couple of years living overseas as a local in Asia and I guarantee you that you will realise at least 1/2 the problems and existentialist misery are literally self-inflicted and we are in control, we can do something about it.
Atheists, agnostics, free-thinkers, Christians, Muslims, etc - everyone of these people have something we can learn from, something we can teach to them from our experiences and trust me it wouldn't be much fun if the world were a perfect place.
Be positive!