Christian's of VGChartz, are you Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant or Non-Denominational? (Edit:Poll fixed)

[Joelcool7]

padib said:

sapphi_snake said:

Joelcool7:

It seems alot of Athiests have this evil notion that every single good thing a Christian does is for the soul purpose of taking advantage of the person and changing their beliefs. But that is very far from true.

If you would've read my post carefully, you would've seen that I said that Eastern Orthodox people have that view of Protestants and their youth services/feeding the poor/etc. I didn't mention anything about atheists in my post.

His opinion wasn't necessarily related to yours there. Just a different opinion on the same topic.

Actually this was the case. I wasn't refering to the exact statement Sapphi stated. I know Sapphi is Athiest and I know he holds that view. That churchs and religious people take advantage of weaker people for the soul purpose of converting.

I know this from other conversations I have had with Sapphi and addressed it in my post. Take it as a pre-emptive move as I already knew his personal beliefs. We've had a very similiar conversation before.

I'm sure other Christian's can post as to whether or not church's and Christian's prey on people with the soul purpose of converting. Whether its an athiest view of most Christian's or a view of the Orthodox Church about Protestants. In both cases no , Protestant's are not out to prey on the weak and convert everyone to their beliefs. I don't know much about the Orthodox Church but I'd say as a Christian denomination they probably share similiar values.

Acts of charity aren't always evil plans to take over the minds of those we help. They are done out of genuine love and concern for those we help. Just like if a millionaire donates a couple million to the UN to help children in Africa, is he doing so to convert them to western democracy and his soul goal is to see them topple their regime and believe as he does? No, the thought likely never entered his mind, he was simply wanting to help the children and happened to be from a western democracy.

All the conspiracy stuff about how Christians are out for the soul purpose of converting people is really funny. I laugh sometimes at the idea when people do say such things!