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Do you feel like Christians are judged too quickly by society?

I'm a Christian, but I don't see myself as better than any non religious person or person of another religion.
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Abstraction · 61-69, M
Stereotyped, Dan. So those of us who actually try to live it out get tarred with the same brush as those who have done so much damage.
And those christians who do so much damage also stereotype people.
@Abstraction I think when you choose to belong to a community of people who have done so much harm, that is a weight you have to bare, and if you see the wrong in what others in your community do, you have an obligation to hold them accountable. There is incredible power in such a huge community.

I obviously didn't choose to be white, but I am aware of how much I benefit from the racist world we live in and understand I have a moral obligation to do everything I can to do better and encourage the people around me to be better too.
Christians have a very similar obligation.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@AmbivalentFriability My community? And which community is that? Are you stereotyping me into a single conglomerate with every other person who claims to be a christian? No-one in the christian communities I have belong to has done those things. They are not judgemental. In terms of my obligations I would suggest I have spent my life understanding and acting on my obligations, for example I have spent my life working for the poorest and most vulnerable. I've actually touched the lives of millions of children even though that will sound nonsensical to you, it's of no matter.
No argument about the harm done in the name of religion. I don't have a relationship with all the people in all the religious institutions in the world. I can't control what people in other groups do. I influence where I can, but realistically that's in groups I am part of. The institution that has done most damage to individual people in the world is not the church. It's not even the government. It is the family - abuse, murder, mistreatment, violence... I can't control what all the other families do. I can influence my own family.
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