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Struggles by Non-Christians
I am an Agnostic/Buddhist who attends a Methodist church. If they found out, what would they think?
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<blockquote data-quote="grandvizier1006" data-source="post: 68789738" data-attributes="member: 365677"><p>This is ridiculous. Why do liberal Christians feel this need to just let everyone into their churches, including people that aren't Christians? It is one thing to allow someone who identifies as a visitor and is considering joining. But the OP is a Budhist and for some reason feels like everyone needs to know it. Are you all sympathiZing with him because he used the term "come out of the closet?" Don't you get that that's just a logical fallacy designed to appeal to your emotions? You feel like sympathizing with him because it immediately reminds you of a gay person. And you all seem to think that gay people are invariably mistreated and abused at every church that doesn't affirm homosexuality--which, I might want to point out, was likely your own church not long ago. So you're led to sympathize with him all because of his choice of words. Why do people fall for this kind of rhetoric? I don't think the OP was deliberately trying to manipulate your emotions, but it's still so pathetic to me, honestly, that you feel the need to literally say "how wonderful!" At the prospect of a Budhist going to a church that is reserved for Christians.</p><p></p><p>A church is meant to be a gathering place for believers, or at the very least those being introduced to the Christian faith. The OP seems comfortable being a Budhist and wants to still be one in a Christian environment, for reasons I do 't understand. If it has something to do with diversity, then don't try and explain it to me.</p><p></p><p>There is nothing "intolerant" about telling a Budhist in a Christian church about Jesus and offering him the chance to learn about Christianity. What is UN-Christian is to just let him sit there and expect him to somehow accept Jesus on his own. Clearly he doesn't want to do it unless he has to because he has a very different idea of religious faith then myself, and possibly you as well, but the way you liberal Christians are I have no idea. Doing what St. Francis of Assissi said is just garbage. You cannot expect someone to just understand Christ unless they are told. And I know that you liberal Christians are afraid of that because you're afraid of being ostracized in society. But God never said that life would be easy, or that we'd come to agree with the world on things. We Christians are naturally at odds with the world, and trying to pretend like we're not just leads to a watered-down, dead faith that only exists to keep you in this delusional state of happiness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grandvizier1006, post: 68789738, member: 365677"] This is ridiculous. Why do liberal Christians feel this need to just let everyone into their churches, including people that aren't Christians? It is one thing to allow someone who identifies as a visitor and is considering joining. But the OP is a Budhist and for some reason feels like everyone needs to know it. Are you all sympathiZing with him because he used the term "come out of the closet?" Don't you get that that's just a logical fallacy designed to appeal to your emotions? You feel like sympathizing with him because it immediately reminds you of a gay person. And you all seem to think that gay people are invariably mistreated and abused at every church that doesn't affirm homosexuality--which, I might want to point out, was likely your own church not long ago. So you're led to sympathize with him all because of his choice of words. Why do people fall for this kind of rhetoric? I don't think the OP was deliberately trying to manipulate your emotions, but it's still so pathetic to me, honestly, that you feel the need to literally say "how wonderful!" At the prospect of a Budhist going to a church that is reserved for Christians. A church is meant to be a gathering place for believers, or at the very least those being introduced to the Christian faith. The OP seems comfortable being a Budhist and wants to still be one in a Christian environment, for reasons I do 't understand. If it has something to do with diversity, then don't try and explain it to me. There is nothing "intolerant" about telling a Budhist in a Christian church about Jesus and offering him the chance to learn about Christianity. What is UN-Christian is to just let him sit there and expect him to somehow accept Jesus on his own. Clearly he doesn't want to do it unless he has to because he has a very different idea of religious faith then myself, and possibly you as well, but the way you liberal Christians are I have no idea. Doing what St. Francis of Assissi said is just garbage. You cannot expect someone to just understand Christ unless they are told. And I know that you liberal Christians are afraid of that because you're afraid of being ostracized in society. But God never said that life would be easy, or that we'd come to agree with the world on things. We Christians are naturally at odds with the world, and trying to pretend like we're not just leads to a watered-down, dead faith that only exists to keep you in this delusional state of happiness. [/QUOTE]
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