I call it bigoted hatred to the point of obsession. Have you ever noticed how every single time someone starts a thread about Christianity, ESPECIALLY one that might be thoughtful and meaningful, Taz practically breaks his neck hotfooting in there to fill it with metric fucktons of worthless, pointless two-line bullshit posts that serve no other purpose than to shout "I hate you I hate you how dare you be a Christian I hate you!" at everyone and guarantee that it's impossible for any conversation about anything other than what a completely and utterly ignorant shitstain he is to occur?
It's not that he has anything, however shallow and empty it is, to say. It's that he deliberately works to make sure NO ONE ever gets to say anything, EVER, as though he's terrified that someone might hear something that makes them think about Christianity as something other than a target to be reviled. He's not an atheist, or even an evangelical atheist. It's not about disbelieving in God, or about convincing others they shouldn't believe in God. His actual religion is pathological hatred of Christianity.
An enterprising psychology student could write a master's thesis on it.
While I don't disagree, a bit of caution here. I strongly suspect that those who flock to Christian threads to taunt and mock and/or attempt to derail are not always doing so out of pure malice. I suspect at least some do so because deep down they are terrified that Christians may indeed be onto something that they neither share nor feel, but may be true. And how we deal with them may or may not inspire them to seek it. If not, why would they be so fascinated with these topics? Or so compelled to post in these threads when they ignore dozens of other topics that are uninteresting to them?
"Christian threads"? if there a Christian forum on this message
board?
I dunno. But a Christian thread obviously doesn't have to be in a Christian forum as this one definitely qualifies as a Christian thread.
I don't see it as a "Christian" thread. I see it as a discussion on
RELIGION. The issue of "sacrifice of jesus as 'lamb of God" crosses over to other religions. Christianity did not develop all
by itself
I know that is the anti-Christian position, Irosie, because if Christianity can be made to look like any other religion that originated in Biblical times, then it is just another religion.
But Christianity isn't just another religion. It isn't a religion at all though billions have made a religion of it as humankind is wont to do. Christianity is not a religion but is rather a relationship. Those who have experienced that relationship know the difference between that relationship and religion. Those who have not experienced it can only see the religion. But those who have the relationship can strip away all the trappings of religion--the churches, the festivals, the traditions, the symbols, even the holy Book itself--and the relationship remains.
The religion that was built around the relationship shares similarities with other religions but was and remains unique just as the unique concept of the U.S. Constitution shares similarities with other government structures but remains unique. It is natural that the Jews who came to know and accept Christ and also the pagans who came to know and accept Christ would transform some of their old cherished traditions and festivals into Christian ones, or would replace their old ones with Christian ones. But that is not the same thing as Christianity evolving from those older traditions and festivals. It didn't.
So a thread based on the premise that God sacrificed his Son is definitely a Christian thread IMO.