So what exactly is a Moderate Christian anyway?

[Willtor]

I just opened up a thread for doctrines you'd like on the survey.

 

[DailyBlessings]

The Liberal verses Conservative argument has done a lot of damage to Christianity as a whole. The last thing we want to do here is to become a battleground for this to continue.

Amen!

 

[BelindaP]

I don't think we should even try to define what a moderate is. Instead, I think we should devise a set of behaviors we'd like to observe and let people self-identify as moderates.

For example, a person might be completely right-wing in terms of abortion, but be much more liberal in terms of homosexuality. They would be expected to recognize that in themselves and behave accordingly, not jumping on sombody's case who may not be as conservative wrt abortion.

 

[GreenMunchkin]

Without wanting to regress the discussion, I think it's possibly a question of having coonservative, or traditional, theological beliefs, but being fairly liberal in approach.

CC has taught me that, apparently, unless you're trying to ram your beliefs down the throats of others, you're a secret liberal mole.

 

[Joykins]

What makes me think I'm moderate is seeing extremes on both ends and saying "thanks but no thanks."

 

[GreenMunchkin]

What makes me think I'm moderate is seeing extremes on both ends and saying "thanks but no thanks."

The funny thing is I thought conservative *was* the bit in between the two extremes...

On the sliding scale of fundamentalist to liberal, conservative seemed to be the middle ground.

 

[meh]

Moderate is about the best label for myself that I've seen lately. I'm too liberal politically and on social issues to really identify truly as conservative. I'm too conservative on Biblical issues to be liberal in that area. I'm tired of being judged as not good enough for one or the other. I'm in the middle I have also tried to be really hard-line and tell people what they believe about X or Y is wrong...but honestly, it's just not my style and I can't do it anymore. I am very much more of a just let people be who they are person, because I myself like to be left alone to be who I am.

So I like the term Moderate. in fact, my profile choice on this forum as been Moderate from the time I signed up.

 

[CelticGrace]

What makes me think I'm moderate is seeing extremes on both ends and saying "thanks but no thanks."

This is me too

 

[chaoschristian]

I don't think we should even try to define what a moderate is. Instead, I think we should devise a set of behaviors we'd like to observe and let people self-identify as moderates.

 

[Joykins]

The funny thing is I thought conservative *was* the bit in between the two extremes...

On the sliding scale of fundamentalist to liberal, conservative seemed to be the middle ground.

I have always identified as moderate, but it departs in some significant ways with how CF conservative forum defines conservatism, anyway.

 

[GreenMunchkin]

I have always identified as moderate, but it departs in some significant ways with how CF conservative forum defines conservatism, anyway.

The thing I can't quite get to grips with is whether this whole forum somehow artifically engineers these differences. Insofar as, in the real world, you don't ask other Christians whether they're liberal or conservative or moderate or fundamentalist. It doesn't seem to be an issue, in any way. But here, it's literally the issue. It supercedes denominational issues in terms of importance, for sure.

 

[Joykins]

The thing I can't quite get to grips with is whether this whole forum somehow artifically engineers these differences. Insofar as, in the real world, you don't ask other Christians whether they're liberal or conservative or moderate or fundamentalist. It doesn't seem to be an issue, in any way. But here, it's literally the issue. It supercedes denominational issues in terms of importance, for sure.

Perhaps IRL you don't have to *ask*. You just watch the church split apart (all the Episcopal churches in Fairfax county just pulled out of ECUSA and went to an African diocese due to the homosexuality issue, to point to a recent and local event--and it involved the church which runs the school my nieces attend).

 

[GreenMunchkin]

Perhaps IRL you don't have to *ask*. You just watch the church split apart (all the Episcopal churches in Fairfax county just pulled out of ECUSA and went to an African diocese due to the homosexuality issue, to point to a recent and local event--and it involved the church which runs the school my nieces attend).

The body of Christ is very broken and poorly

 

[Apollo Celestio]

Not the "legalistic fundy garbage" nor the "fake Christianity that is just a gateway to agnosticism..."

Where does bible believing, Jesus loving fit?

 

[GreenMunchkin]

Not the "legalistic fundy garbage" nor the "fake Christianity that is just a gateway to agnosticism..."

Where does bible believing, Jesus loving fit?

In the former CC, and hopefully now here

 

[Ave Maria]

That about sums it up for me.
Though - there are things I am less than conservative on, such as women in leadership...

I suppose tolerance is the key issue - being able to discuss and disagree whilst still loving one another.

It about sums it up for me too. Except I am slightly more liberal then most conservatives.

 

[~*Lady Trekki*~]

In the former CC, and hopefully now here

I hope so too.

 

[MrJim]

A moderate is someone who reads the scripts of the liberal and the conservative and whips out the red pen.

Sounds like a motto to me

 

[~*Lady Trekki*~]

Sounds like a motto to me

MrJim!

 

[Rochir]

moderates - finding good in every perspective?