christianity, discuss, share your opinions, and be polite. Options

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I don't know where this goes, since there's not a specific debate topic.
Be considerate of others; not everyone believes what you do!

I'm starting the thread off with nondenominational Christianity, because that's my reply when I'm asked what my religion is. Of course, feel free to branch out. I'd be glad to have a reply from anyone just to see what your views are, including people who aren't Christian.

In my opinion, I think Christianity shouldn't be too difficult of a concept and that a lot of churches make things too complicated. These days I think people make it into too much of a "religion" or at least my negative idea of religion. I think it's more of a relationship based on trust and faith... for works, you do what the Bible says out of love and respect, not because you're horribly bound to laws.

I think splitting the church up into so many sections is rather silly and that anyone who loves and worships God and keeps striving to build the relationship is worth being called the same name as another Christian from any other denomination.

Opinions?

[misoshiru]

Wouldn't this go under debate?

Personally, I'm agnostic. All of my elementary and middle school was spent in a small Christian school, and when I went to my high school, it was when I realized how constricted my views had been. Granted, I understand that many Christians aren't like this, but for me, it's very difficult now to talk to the people I went to Christian school with. For them, God is basically their life, and they keep praising what God does to them and to the world.

But of course, we can bring up arguments such as evolution. The bible does not talk about evolution, but scientific evidence points straight towards it. I feel that the hard evidence we have is too much to be ignored.

Not to mention, as I've grown up, I have different morals. And as I'm at an all-women's college, where a large amount of the student population are homosexual, I find the Christian disdain of homosexuality rather offensive and in a way, pointless. And this is only one of many of my beliefs/values that go against Christian beliefs.

But to go back to your point on splitting up the Christian church. It may be pointless, but because of the different interpretations of the Bible, it seems that it is necessary. Of course, sections of the church take different perspectives of the bible to different extremes. So, I think that if you tried to unite all sections under a nondenominational Christian church, there would be too much 'inner-power struggles' to push for the "right" interpretation.