Comments on: Secular reporters undercover at Christian events http://lifeasgodshouse.com/2008/04/25/secular-reporters-undercover-at-christian-events/ Since believers are temples of the Holy Spirit, let's all be doors for the people we know to walk through. Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: J Crowley http://lifeasgodshouse.com/2008/04/25/secular-reporters-undercover-at-christian-events/#comment-41 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:23:33 +0000 http://lifeasgodshouse.wordpress.com/?p=43#comment-41 I think there are a lot of people who conflate fundamentalist Christians, who are an extremely vocal minority, with Christianity as a whole. Admittedly, I was guilty of this in the past, but I was like eighteen or nineteen and eventually stopped being so much of a moron about it.

Many secular people — particularly hardline Atheists — don’t seem to realize that there are, in fact, Christians who aren’t the self-righteous nutters that think that 9/11 was caused by God removing some magical shield around America in response to feminism. Just because Jerry Falwell says it doesn’t mean every Christian believes it, in other words.

I think part of the problem is that because the lunatic fringe is such an obnoxious group, we tend to give them the most attention, and it all ends up minimizing the religious people who are sane, rational individuals. I’m certainly guilty of this myself, in spending so much time and effort making fun of Jack Chick’s crazy, hate-filled ramblings, and his assertions that finding out that Santa isn’t real makes children go on murderous rampages.

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