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Titolo: Amo il vostro Cristo, ma non i vostri Cristiani.  I vostri Cristiani sono cosi' diversi dal vostro Cristo...

Cosi' disse Mahatma Gandhi.  E, pare, non e' il solo.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1667639,00.html
It used to be, says David Kinnaman, that Christianity was both big and
beloved in the U.S. - even among its non-adherents. Back in 1996, a
poll taken by Kinnaman's organization, the Barna Group, found that 83%
of Americans identified themselves as Christians, and that fewer than
20% of non-Christians held an unfavorable view of Christianity. But,
as Kinnaman puts it in his new book (co-authored with Gabe Lyons)
UnChristian, "That was then."
Barna polls conducted between 2004 and this year, sampling 440 non-
Christians (and a similar number of Christians) aged 16 to 29, found
that 38% had a "bad impression" of present-day Christianity. "It's not
a pretty picture" the authors write. Barna's clientele is made up
primarily of evangelical groups.
Kinnaman says non-Christians' biggest complaints about the faith are
not immediately theological: Jesus and the Bible get relatively good
marks. Rather, he sees resentment as focused on perceived Christian
attitudes. Nine out of ten outsiders found Christians too "anti-
homosexual," and nearly as many perceived it as "hypocritical" and
"judgmental." Seventy-five percent found it "too involved in
politics."
Not only has the decline in non-Christians' regard for Christianity
been severe, but Barna results also show a rapid increase in the
number of people describing themselves as non-Christian. One reason
may be that the study used a stricter definition of "Christian" that
applied to only 73% of Americans. Still, Kinnaman claims that however
defined, the number of non-Christians is growing with each succeeding
generation: His study found that 23% of Americans over 61 were non-
Christians; 27% among people ages 42-60; and 40% among 16-29 year
olds. Younger Christians, he concludes, are therefore likely to live
in an environment where two out of every five of their peers is not a
Christian.
Churchgoers of the same age share several of the non-Christians'
complaints about Christianity. For instance, 80% of the Christians
polled picked "anti-homosexual" as a negative adjective describing
Christianity today. And the view of 85% of non-Christians aged 16-29
that present day Christianity is "hypocritical - saying one thing
doing another," was, in fact, shared by 52% of Christians of the same
age. Fifty percent found their own faith "too involved in politics."
Forty-four percent found it "confusing."
Christians have always been aware of image problems with non-
believers. Says Kinnaman: "The question is whether to care." But given
the increasing non-Christian population and the fact that many of the
concerns raised by non-believers are shared by young Christians, he
says, there really is no option but to address the crisis.

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Purtroppo il cristianesimo e' diventato una pozza deforme.
Un cristiano delle sette nord americane e un ortodosso non sono
neanche parenti.
Quindi il discorso va ampliato e specificato.
La chiesa Cattolica Romana e' una chiesa scismatica che gia' ha perso
le radici classiche cristiane.
Gli anglicani sono una chiesa al servizio delle prouderie' dei re
inglesi.
Tutte le protestanti con la loro osessione biblica sono piu' vicine
all'ebraismo e all'islam di quanto non lo siano a cristo.
Della pletora di chiese settarie nord americane, e ultimamente sud
americane, con le loro radici profetiche basate su illuminazioni di
tipo maomettano piu' orientato al businnes che altro, non vale la pena
parlare.
Non che io sia particolarmente nostalgico del cristianesimo, ma spiace
che la sua decadenza in forme deformi sia sotto gli occhi di tutti.
Devo solo dire che se andate in Grecia resterete stupiti dalla
assolutamente grande devozione e popolarita' della chiesa, che e'
quella di sempre, in parole povere quella senza inquisizione e bibbia.
Saluti

Cosi' disse Mahatma Gandhi.
A dimostrazione che chiunque puo' dire stronzate, Gandhi compreso.
-Stefano

 A dimostrazione che chiunque puo' dire stronzate, Gandhi compreso.
Gandhi innanzitutto, direi.
Tb

 Gandhi innanzitutto, direi.
-"Well, why not use Gandhi's way? He didn't have any guns and he beat
the British Empire."
-I'm not... familiar with that."
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0310793/quotes
GT