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Post by gadreel on Jun 13, 2017 19:11:02 GMT
I dont agree with that logic, if you see that there is a belief set that sets out certain tenets for morality and behaviour and you see someone who claims to follow that belief set not following those tenets, then you can call out those people for those actions, it does not matter what you believe, only what the other claims to believe and if they follow that. Take for example honesty, I think we can all agree that Christianity holds that one should be honest, Ada and Blade have been caught out in numerous lies, Erjen defends Ada when it has to be obvious that she is lying (so I guess bearing false witness, or at the very least being dishonest about the information you have received). This behaviour is contrary to the tenets of the belief they claim to follow. Meaning they are behaving in a 'non-Christian' manner (to be fair I don't like the phrase 'non-Christian' as it goes does the no true scotsman path, but as long as the mentioned posters claim they are one thing and demonstratably do things opposed to that then their adherence to the belief set is open to question). Bear in mind that Blade, Erjen and Ada all accuse me of not being a Christian, the difference being that they are unable to demonstrate that my behaviours and writing are not opposed to what I claim to believe. Well then I disagree. If you create such terms as "non-Christian behaviour" then it simply means you divide people into two categories. Those who follow Christian values and those who don't follow Christian values. Sure, there are some areas where many non-Christians will agree with Christian values but those areas are pretty limited in scope. To exclusively classify bad behaviour as non-Christian is nothing but an indicator of Christian supremacy. May be Bryce is a new non-Christian but it's fact that his statement indicated that he holds Christian values on a very high moral ground. So much that he classifies dishonesty, lying and cheating as a non-Christian behaviour. But dishonesty, lying and cheating IS non-Christian behaviour, it goes against the tenets of the Christian faith. It may also be non-Muslim behaviour but given that the people in question claim to be Christian, it is correct to hold them up to the standards they purport to follow. Just to be clear, you CAN divide people into two groups, those who follow Christian values and those who don't follow Christian values, and depending on the context it can be a valuable distinction, but the same can be said with any boolean that you use to catagorise people |
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