Re: Christian personality guide!

_{Due to people having a go at one or two spelling mistakes because they got offended I decided to fix this completely. Now that it is 3pm and not 3am when I originally typed up the last one.}

Me and many other atheists in the world have stumbled across different varies of Christians. The ones you are most likely to run into can be easily summed up into 4 different types, I want to talk briefly about them.

THE FEELER
THE THEOLOGIAN
THE FOLKLORIST
and my personal favourite
THE FOOT SOLDIER

I will go into far more depth into each of these later today.

THE FEELER
The sort of people who use and injects God and Jesus into every day life, they can brush of all the mishap in the world as they take comfort knowing "God is in control".

Scientific, philosophical and moral challenges to his faith frustrate him or her as if it was a wasp or an annoying noise.

Thinking with the heart makes him/her easy fodder in any real debate on spiritual issues. Ignorance is brandished like a badge of honour with these lot, and make up the mast majority of Sodaheads.....though no real challenge to a thought through atheist, they do tend to hunt in groups.


THE THEOLOGIAN
Some of the most elaborate responses have come from educated bible scholars.

The Theologian instructs us to learn biblical Truth with helpful bible-reading pointers:

• Go back to the original Greek.

• See the passage in the proper context, taking into account the time period and local customs.

• Cross-reference the passage with another passage.

• (my favourite) Remember that you can’t take the entire bible LITERALLY........ohh shut up.

Rather funny thing is Theologians tend to argue amongst themselves over whether the bible is literal or not, if they do this, sit back and watch.

THE FOLKLORIST
Folklorist has just enough information to make him dangerous. His antennae is always up, listening for another piece of “proof” that God exists, and then he re-transmits that information without bothering to fact-check it.

These guys jump on band wagon a lot, they don't necessary bother to check. They see one thing and....proof that the great flood happened.

The Folklorist probably grew up playing his records backwards to find Satanic messages, looking for God-shaped cloud formations, bending everything in the book of Revelation to match the evening news, and ascribing divine meaning to everyday coincidences. As you can see, they don't really have much of a life....best to avoid these guys if you can.

Now the last one is just a defensive angry thing.....

THE FOOT SOLDIER
Usually a strong personality, The Foot Soldier attempts to defend God by flipping the discussion 180 degrees. These guys are normally the people who piss me off.....why? They are hypocrites.

Not as well-versed as the Theologian, he/she champions Christianity from the front lines instead of the war room. However I am lucky to see they play a small minority on Sodahead...at the moment.

For example

ISSUE: Why doesn’t God help to provide for the tens of thousands of starving people in the world?

ANSWER: God uses man. God wants man to be a missionary to the world. God WANTS to save them, but he WANTS to use man. Who are you to question God?

ISSUE: Why does God create a physical, tangible creature desperate for answers, and then insist on providing no physical, contemporary proof of Himself?

ANSWER: God has proven Himself! He’s real! He’s in my heart! Who are you to question God?

You cant actually get a answer from them....more less just face-palm them to stop you, from killing them with a shovel.

These chaps are easy to piss off so rather than you getting annoyed at them simple annoy them.....they will block you in the space of 5 minutes. These are the guys who normaly block me/

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That's it for now.....I will go into more detail today.