So I have been tagged by my loving sis (I will get you for this . . . oh wait I'm making you read my thesis, never mind) to add my comments to this meme thingy (thingy is a technical term by the way)
It is on a book called unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianity . . . And Why it Matters It is supposed to groundbreaking research on what 16-29 year olds think of Christianity, and Christianity's image problem.
Sorry but . . . DUH. We had to do research to figure out that Christianity is viewed in a bad light??? Come on folks.
Now, seriously, the task of the meme is to list three negative stereotypes of Christians, and then one thing that we should be known for.
1) All Christians are radical fundamentalist, Right-wing, Capitalist Pigs. (sorry, I am a grad student so sometimes the student attitudes creep in) Seriously though, many of these students really think this. Tell some one you are christian and they run screaming thinking you are going to smack them upside the head with the biggest bible in the world and scream "Come to JAAY-ZUS thou unholy spawn of the devil!!! Or they might suspect that you are secretly the manager of a sweat shop hidden in your house's crawl space.
2) Christians are idiots. Like sub-moronic on the IQ scale. Common don't you know that evolution has been completly proven and that to believe in God is good reason to suspect that one is seriously delusional and in need of institutionalization (Just read Freud)
3) This one is the WORST: Christians have no compassion for others. Don't you see people picketing abortion clinics, Planned Parenthood, and don't you see them screaming such things as "You are going to HELL you sick and perverted childmolesting Faggot at any place where there might be even a small gathering of Gay, Lesbian, or Transgendered folks.
So, with a few tongue in cheek examples (that unfortunately are all too true) you can see that christians are uncompassionate, sub-moronic, delusional pigs.
Don't you feel all warm and cozy to call yourself a christian??
So what is the one thing that we should be known for?
One simple word: LOVE
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind." This is the first and greatest commandment and a second is like it. You shall love the lord your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. (Matt. 22:37-40 NRSV)
Can't ask for something more simple than that. even a delusion sub-moronic individual can do it. Love gets rid of the whole uncompassionate thing, now we just have to figure out how to not be Right Wing, bible thumping pigs!!!
Not too hard right?
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The nail's head has been hit, and hard at that. Best, most honest no-holds-barred assessment as an answer to this meme I've seen yet.
But what do I know? I'm a moronic, delusional, uncompassionate pig.
Hey, Brad. I forgot to read this earlier.
You have such way wit words, my brother!
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