Do you think it is the duty of Christians to make others feel guilty

[bloom]

about having an abortion, about being homosexual or any other agenda item?

(For instance - to save souls - or for any other reason).


You could answer this as a Christian - your perceived role.

Or of your perceptions of Christians you know...



Please try to be clear which tack you are taking.

[coloradodem2005]

1. Or about anything no matter how small.

[mongo]

2. There are really two christian religions

One based on Christ's love
and the other based in shame.

[bloom]

3. I realize that there are various views.

They may even all be well-meaning...

[youthere]

6. wellput.

What Mongo said.

[saltpoint]

4. Perhaps some fundamentalists are told by pastors to --

-- make others feel the cost of their "sins." This is now a post-Christian world and I do not believe the majority of people who have had an abortion, or who have pre-marital sex or homosexual sex, etc., are listening very carefully to fundamentalist moralism, and rightly so.

I believe they take their existential hits and get on with it.

If I heard a "Christian" trying to make someone feel guilty about reproductive freedom or sexual identity, I would attempt to dip his or her head into a pot of spaghetti.

[OneBlueSky]

5. for fundamentalists, making others feel gilty DEFINES their "faith" . . .

at least Catholics keep their guilt to themselves . . . usually . . .

[Selwynn]

7. I don't think its the duty of christians to be pro-life or anti-gay

I just wanted to mention that, as an aside.