Why are Christians so judgmental?

[Feathers in Hair]

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[Shaggy Flasko]

The Bible specifically condemns judging one's neighbor, as if he should take the place of God. If someone is a good Christian, they should be able to disagree without condemning people like some intellectual suicide bomber.

I think we're forgetting the entire basis of Christianity: love. If a "Christian" has not love, then guess what... Just because someone calls himself a Christian, doesn't make it so. After all, what are the greatest commandments? It's pretty simple.

Love the Lord thy God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind.
Love your neighbor as yourself.

Voila, we see that it's not Christianity that is judgmental, but the people that don't understand Christianity and cling to their own hatred of their fellow man.

God bless.
-Bill

 

[Immortal Awakened]

I'll tell you a secret, Immortal. Having no religion on this board is a disadvantage

why is that?

 

[Malus 12:9]

I didn't attack anyone.....although I am severally attacked myself, but I don't think I attacked anyone..

 

[Malus 12:9]

funny thing, deut is an athiest.

Interesting avatar for an athiest, Aqua..

 

[Immortal Awakened]

Of course He is.

oh, thats nice

Who else but God has the authority to judge us according to His standards?

the religious authority

We're digressing though since your original question was "why are Christians so judgmental"?

i think your questions were good though

I guess I'd change that to "why are people so judgmental" since I don't think Christians have the marketing on this particular trait.

doesnt God have the market on judgmentalism? who else but God has the authority to judge us according to his standards? (besides the religious authority that is)

 

[Immortal Awakened]

You're gettin judged by people who happen to be the majority and happen to be religious. You're not getting judged by people because they are the religious majority.

so its strictly the majority that judges?

 

[Immortal Awakened]

Question should be: "Why are a lot of religious people Judgemental"

thats a good question; do they all believe in a judgmental god?

 

[Shaggy Flasko]

Perhaps if one feels that he's being abused my members of a particular faith, the best solution is to challenge those people on the grounds of their own faith. I would bring up Matthew 7, for example.

It's sad that we, as humans, divide ourselves so readily. I've met some fantastic people that I would've never known if I'd been more closed minded, including among my atheist friends.

God bless.
-Bill

 

[Immortal Awakened]

Are you implying that atheists are not judgmental...at all....ever?

i believe that we all judge at times

Give me a day or so and I'll send you the links for the boards I no longer participate in. Nor do a lot of theists because they are brutally judgmental and have bullied the theists into silence.

did they present any reasons for this?

I don't make the mistake, however, of saying that atheists are judgmental because their behavior has less to do with their atheism and more to do with their personal need to be judgmental and critical.

however, when christians have been judgmental towards me, they commonly embrace the rationale that their god is the one justifying their judgments; if a christian made judgments on me without any references to their god, then i would consider their judgments to be unchristian; however, when the judgments are tied into comments about the eternal hellfire, then i particularly associate the judgments to the christian's religion

 

[Feathers in Hair]

is it okay if members of any faith bash someone of no faith?

No. Which is why neither is allowed. If you see either happening, please PM me or another Mod or Admin, or press the 'report feature."

if ten are christian and ten are non-christian, shouldnt the odds be 50/50? why would the most judgmental people that i meet be christian?

Let's look at the other 10, shall we?

2=Pagan
3=Muslim
2-Jewish
1=Discordian
1=Atheist
1= Rastafarian

So, in the given example, if 3 out of the 20 are judgemental, simple odds are that they'll be Christian. Throw into that mix the infinite variety of people that consider themselves to be Christians, and chances are even more likely. As for why 'the most judgemental' people you meet are of that faith, if you live in an area where certain types of Christianity are prevalant, it's only natural that this happens.

Editted to add: I hope you don't get a bad impression of RF from this thread. As with so many things, people are greatly affected by how a question is asked.

 

[Malus 12:9]

I think religion in general, alongside religious knowledge, makes religious people think they are better than others. Not just Christianity, but many others. Just take a look at any of my religious debates in this forum...

 

[Immortal Awakened]

No. eVerybody will judge you.

but not everyone judges me; many people do not judge me

Everybody is judging you.

no, theyre not; not everyone

except there are more christians around, so it stands to reason that more christians will be judging you.

ive been mostly beset by christian judgments, although there have been a few nonchristian judgments as well

The average person seems judgemental to me.

why does the average person seem judgmental to you?

Everybody is judgemental.

agreed

It doesn't matter the religion

but religion can often amplify it

Anybody is judgemental in large numbers.

so the minority is always judged?

It knows no religion.

but religion knows it

 

[Immortal Awakened]

Immortal, beware the self righteous dragon of RF, legends say he is called Deut.
:biglaugh:

could you elaborate?

 

[Melody]

i think that youre mixing up religion and race; i suggest that many religious belief systems can breed judgmentalism; christians have a history of genocide for example

am i perceiving a theist/atheist conflict here?

Theist/atheist conflict? Not at all. You are the one trying to make the case that christians are more judgmental than other theists or non-theists. I believe you are in error. Judgmental people abound in both the theist and atheist camp and neither has the exclusive claim.

Please list the history of genocide that you attribute to christians.


In WWII, the Nazis killed 6 million Jews and Hitler was not a Christian, nor did this genocide have anything to do with religion. The Jews were merely Hitlers scapegoat in his rise for power. He didn't restrict himself to Jews. He also murdered about 4 million others for various reasons.

In 1915, the ruling Ottoman turks murdered 1.5 million Armenians. The turks were not Christian.

Currently in Darfur, the Janjaweed (arab militia) has murdered over 400,000 sudanese, the majority of whom are non-arab. This was not a religious war started by christians to exterminate non-christians.

In the 1990's in Rwanda, the Hutu's deliberately exterminated almost a million Tutsis. This was not a religious war started by christians to exterminate non-christians.

Other cases of genocide which have nothing to do with christians:
Rape of Nanking - Japanese murdered 300,000 chinese
Mongolian genocide - Chinese murdered approximately 300,000 (unable to officially verify because there are few records beyond the fact that people are missing family members) mongols.
Tibetan genocide - it is estimated that over 1 million Tibetans have been killed
Kurdish genocide - it is estimated that over 17,000 people died when Saddam used chemical weapons on the Kurdish town of Halabja.

Christians are no more, nor less, guilty of genocide than any other people/religions.

 

[Melody]

I did not state you disliked me Melody, I stated you didn't think much of me.

You are in error. I don't know you well enough to form an opinion either way.

 

[Melody]

if ten are christian and ten are non-christian, shouldnt the odds be 50/50? why would the most judgmental people that i meet be christian?

Perhaps because you're being biased? Perhaps because you hang around the wrong people? Perhaps the area you live in is dominated by more aggressive religions? Who knows...but it doesn't mean that christians are more judgmental.

 

[Immortal Awakened]

No, you will not get judged,

no? may i preserve this quote in gold alloy?

but you will hear the theist view if you hang around theists.

thats fine by me; am i allowed to share a non-theist view with theists too? if they share theist views with a non-theist such as myself?

In the case of the RF, there's an easy way not to hear the christian view and that is to stay out of the christian debates.

dont christians have free reign throughout the forums?

There are areas specifically for the nontheists.

will i be segregated?

In the real world, christians should not be sitting in judgment on you

i agree with you, but tell them that

and the bible specifically speaks to this issue.

its the bible which christians have often used to judge me; which shows me that these are specifically christian judgments with a christian hellfire and brimstone flavor; nonchristian judgments dont condemn my soul to the eternal hellfire

 

[Melody]

I didn't attack anyone.....although I am severally attacked myself, but I don't think I attacked anyone..

Malus,
I went back and read through the posts. I don't see that anyone has attacked you here. If they have elsewhere, perhaps you should report it to the mods and let them take a look.

 

[Melody]

the religious authority

Immortal, I don't recognize any religious authority. I only recognize God's authority.