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Re: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Most Christians

Justin Wise — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:40:05 -0000

Dawn ... I've been wanting to read that book for some time. I read an article with Radosh and I've been intrigued ever since.

What did you think of the book?

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Dawn — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:52:17 -0000

There's a really interesting book titled Rapture Ready by Daniel Radosh, a journalist who spent several months investigating Christian pop culture. He made some interesting discoveries about derivative work when it comes to Christian music, books, apparel, films, theme parks, comedy, and many other creative outlets that make up this $7 billion industry. Just an idea if you wanted to explore this concept further...

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Mikes Sumondong — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:10:34 -0000

I love the un-creative part. we usually tend to just copy even copy from the world because i think that's easier but we always forget that our God is like the source of creativity. if we tap on Him then surely creative juices come out without a sweat.

About the We think we know everything: not to disagree but to clarify and not sound defensive. sometimes we believe for something and we hold on to that not really looking at knowing everything but knowing because we believe that God can do something. about the who's going to hell...now that's wrong. we can only say for ourselves.

Re: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Most Christians

Justin Wise — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:32:01 -0000

Joy ... First and foremost: WELCOME. Glad to have you on board here at BeDeviant.

Re: Deviant. Check out our About page (http://bedeviant.com/about) ... We address that question specifically.

Re: Exploration. Quantum physics. It's all about quantum physics. No joke!

Re: Solutions ... Not sure yet. Would you have any to offer? I'm not sure how to get around some of them other than just being a decent human being.

Re: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Most Christians

Joy Kennelly — Sat, 29 May 2010 10:51:52 -0000

So Justin,

New to your site and curious what your version of a religious deviant is? I've never heard the term before and wonder how the two words fit together? And also curious how you're "creatively exploring the riches of the Spirit of Christ."

Sounds exciting to say the least.

I felt "convicted" reading some of the points above, but am curious what solutions you offer for your assertions? That's what I would love to read as a post. Have you written one that I missed? Again, I'm new and very open to reading whatever you want to share since I think you have an interesting perspective.

Maybe a little judgmental too, but that's par for the course as a "religious" person, right?:)

I came here as a birth mother wondering what you have to say about adoption and will read that next.

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NJBeliever — Thu, 06 May 2010 05:43:13 -0000

Todd Bentley kicks women in the face by his own admission. He literally beats up sick people who come to him for "healing"? At one point will you ever condemn someone's behavior? Physical abuse is not enough?

Calling someone out for physically abusing people is not "hate." It's called being a responsible citizen. What about Bentley's victims? Should we just brush them under the rug to be "loving" to Bentley? That just makes no sense.

I know you are trying to make non-Christians feel welcome and show them that you are a very reasonable everyman but come on. This is bordering on the ridiculous.

Re: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Most Christians

normds — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:48:54 -0000

Just discovered this post, and site.... good stuff!

I especially connected with #1 - one of the sorriest things I have heard in the last few years was how Ted Haggard had no one from his (former at that point?) congregation help him move. It's as certain as death and taxes that a person needs help moving and it would have sent a message to the world if people who used to be (but still should be) his friends had've said "to heck with what people think, a man needs help moving and we're here to help you Ted".

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Rocco Capra — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:11:37 -0000

I just stumbled upon this. Wow. Love it.

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Naomi Stacey — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:22:45 -0000

Here's another I would like to add: We talk about how Powerful & mighty our God is but we run away in fear when some ones talks about our aura, phsycic abilities, astral travel, shaman healers etc.... When will the Church world ever get off their booties and start realising that these are all counterfiets of God's power and instead of witch covens, spiritualists etc doing these acts... We should be at the forefront of it!! Start moving in the supernatural, start seeing in the spirit... become the manifested sons of God that the world is groaning for!!

Re: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Most Christians

Steven — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:50:39 -0000

Reason # 1 should be:

1) Because Christians focus on other peoples' sin more than their own. We take away rights from gay people instead of treating them fairly and letting God be the judge.

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Guest — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:39:24 -0000

Great post! I really like number 2, now that you say it, that is a good way to get your way.

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Phillip Gibb — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:03:06 -0000

Well, arn't we just a Holy lot? lol
Sad that we can be classified as copiers and not innovaters - we are supposed to be disciples of the CREATOR, besides the fact that we are created in His image. So we should rather be known for the stuff we create and the awesome ideas we come up with (giving God the create all the time)

Re: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Most Christians

Justin Wise — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:06:11 -0000

Michael ... Thanks for your kind words! The key, I think, is to be honest without sounding cranky. Hopefully I've done that well!

Thanks again ... And welcome to the community.

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Samuru — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:35:00 -0000

WOW! I love this! I just found your site, and read this, and man, I feel EXACTLY the same way! Thank God for this generation of believers, who are just so straight up about the things of God. God is so amazing, so awesome, I'm glad that we have people that can just be REAL and not RELIGIOUS! God is really separating all those (in my opinion!) "phony" Christians who put up a front, and real people who JUST LOVE JESUS AND THAT'S IT! They just want to do whatever God says, not be weird, be themselves, and just bring God's kingdom everywhere. Thank you!

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Onyx — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:05:36 -0000

Ah yes, David did do that...but as followers of Christ we are Christians, not Davidians...scripture does not exhort us to follow anything David said or did...except to follow God and worship him alone.

By this they will know that we have the love of Christ in us; if we have love one for another (and that includes towards them). Let us love them all into heaven, not curse them all to hell.

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Amy Tuggey — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:30:31 -0000

I agree 100%.

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Janet Oberholtzer — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:29:11 -0000

Excellent post!

Re: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Most Christians

Justin Wise — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:46:59 -0000

Ruth

Absolutely. You made the right decision. I certainly wasn't suggesting that people must remain in abusive relationships ... Neither does the Bible!

I wrote that with the Christians who sever the ties in their marriage because things get difficult. Or inconvenient. Or hard. That's not a biblical basis for marriage and we cheapen that union when we treat it so flippantly.

I'm sorry to hear of your relationship ... But know this: God desires to restore you and any future relationship you may have!

Re: 7 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Most Christians

Ruth — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:44:38 -0000

Number 3, My first husband left my children and I for one of his many girlfriends. That did not hurt as bad as the "Christian" friends that acted as if I was now a fallen women because I had a divorce. After "dieing to myself" for 14 years of an unhappy marriage I did not deserve to be treated that way just because I married a man who was a cheater! I ended up leaving my church moving to a new city and starting over, but because my self worth had been totally destroyed, I married a man that was to good to be true, and guess what he was not true. He tried to kill me! Life with him was pure torture. I stayed with him until he started threatening to kill the kids to control me! So now in many "Christian" eyes I am a trollop! I want to go to ministry school but while they will take my money and let me go to school they won't let me be ordained because of my past. Divorce is not always wrong! Should a couple stay together when one partner is abusive? According to the Bible adultery is grounds for divorce. "Christians are quicker to forgive a murderer than a person with a divorce! Especially one like me who has two divorces.

I for one am glad I got out of the abusive relationship 14 years ago. And my cheating first husband is on wife number 5 (left everyone for another woman)

Don't be so quick to tell people to stay married! You don't know what goes on in their home!

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lawyervon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:53:50 -0000

Didn't David clearly do that in Psalms? I think that dichotomy in and of itself creates alot of confusion in the believer. There's plenty of "wait till those evil people get theirs" in Scripture itself, so what are we supposed to do with that?

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Billie G. — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:30:25 -0000

Know why I don't like some Christians? They go around writing stuff like this that is so dead on that it is convicting. Why can't I just be hypocritical and be left alone?

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korinthian — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:14:50 -0000

I think this comes from the whole "faith" issue. If you can be absolutely sure about something without any real evidence, then you can believe anything without the burden of having to explain why.

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korinthian — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:10:06 -0000

Regarding #6: The bible is a bunch of copied myths and concepts. Most Christians don't know this though, but it shows that it's nothing new.

Good artists borrow, great artists steal.

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jj — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:09:56 -0000

A rate is not a total amount, but rather a number per unit. So it does not matter if there were 10% or 80% Christians in the USA, a divorce rate is the proportion of those people who fall into a category who get divorced. Math time!
Let us have a population of 100 married couples. 80, or 80%, of them are Christian, and the other 20, 20%, are non-Christians. If the oft said divorce rate of 50% was true, then half of all of these couples would divorce (40 and 10, respectively). Regardless of actual numbers, what matters is the proportion and this makes the divorce rate. What #3 was saying was that in some areas, more Christians proportionally get divorced (ie- more than the 40 couples compared to 10 or less couples).

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Irmgarde Brown — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:39:42 -0000

Really good stuff. And really, all of these are "choice." What? The devil made me do it? I don't think so.

Number two is the hardest/truest situation I encounter regularly ... As soon as someone says he/she has "prayed about it" that ends any chance for discussion.

#8 Most Christians assume other Christians are a particular political party... or take a particular view... and the conversation is skewed that way. If anything outside that view is said, the "look" comes across the faces. And unfortunately, I confess, I have chosen silence over encouraging the look or some "quip & quote" retort.