Comments on: Oh, So That’s Why People Hate Christians http://www.daftmusings.com/2007/08/08/oh-so-thats-why-people-hate-christians/ by Carolyn Bickford Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Doug van Orsow http://www.daftmusings.com/2007/08/08/oh-so-thats-why-people-hate-christians/#comment-120 Doug van Orsow Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:35:20 +0000 http://www.daftmusings.com/?p=351#comment-120 Fellow Teaching Company addicts can now view Yahoo groups and phpbb forums: A forum on each individual lecture in all recent courses: http://teachingcompany.12.forumer.com/index.php My posts in Robert Hazen's "Origins of Life" forum: http://teachingcompany.12.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=17 Some of my new Yahoo groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Teaching_Company_Users/?yguid=317656331 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Teaching_Company_Users_Professor/?yguid=317656331 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Teaching_Company_Users_Subject/?yguid=317656331 Doug van Orsow moderator Fellow Teaching Company addicts can now view Yahoo groups and phpbb forums:

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]]> By: Chris http://www.daftmusings.com/2007/08/08/oh-so-thats-why-people-hate-christians/#comment-119 Chris Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:13:08 +0000 http://www.daftmusings.com/?p=351#comment-119 I think the reason you see so much hatred for Christians, is that it is the corrupt, obnoxious and judgmental ones that get the most press. You know, the Fred Phelps and Jerry Falwells of the world. Not to mention the nonfamous, pushy fundie types like you ran into at the mall. 'Real' caring Christians blend in with the rest of us sinners, quietly living their lives by example and realizing they are not 'better' than the rest of us, and also realizing they can't push or scare most people into believing. Sad Christian story: When I worked at the reception desk of a nursing home in La Jolla not far from UCSD, the daughter of one of the patients 'laid into' me one Sunday because Sunday services had been cancelled. The home relied on a variety of local ministers who would volunteer to come in each week on an alternating basis. I can't remember if it was actually Easter Sunday, or just a week or two before. At any rate, all the pastors were busy with their home churches or something so we weren't having services that week. Anyway, this woman started having a spaz attack because her mother was not a Christian, and only had a few weeks left to live. "It's Heaven or Hell folks!" she ranted at me. "Why can't you find someone to come in?" This woman was absolutely convinced her mother was going to hell and we would all be partially to blame because there was no pastor there who might convince her mother to repent before it was too late. How sad to live your own life in constant fear for the eternal lives of others. How sad that this daughter, if she's still alive herself, is probably still convinced that her mother is in hell, and blaming herself (and us) for not 'saving' her. Scary Christian family: Google JimBob and Michelle Duggar, if you haven't heard of this family already. I think the reason you see so much hatred for Christians, is that it is the corrupt, obnoxious and judgmental ones that get the most press. You know, the Fred Phelps and Jerry Falwells of the world. Not to mention the nonfamous, pushy fundie types like you ran into at the mall. ‘Real’ caring Christians blend in with the rest of us sinners, quietly living their lives by example and realizing they are not ‘better’ than the rest of us, and also realizing they can’t push or scare most people into believing.

Sad Christian story:

When I worked at the reception desk of a nursing home in La Jolla not far from UCSD, the daughter of one of the patients ‘laid into’ me one Sunday because Sunday services had been cancelled. The home relied on a variety of local ministers who would volunteer to come in each week on an alternating basis. I can’t remember if it was actually Easter Sunday, or just a week or two before. At any rate, all the pastors were busy with their home churches or something so we weren’t having services that week. Anyway, this woman started having a spaz attack because her mother was not a Christian, and only had a few weeks left to live. “It’s Heaven or Hell folks!” she ranted at me. “Why can’t you find someone to come in?”

This woman was absolutely convinced her mother was going to hell and we would all be partially to blame because there was no pastor there who might convince her mother to repent before it was too late. How sad to live your own life in constant fear for the eternal lives of others. How sad that this daughter, if she’s still alive herself, is probably still convinced that her mother is in hell, and blaming herself (and us) for not ‘saving’ her.

Scary Christian family: Google JimBob and Michelle Duggar, if you haven’t heard of this family already.

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