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From: larry@cci-bdc.UUCP (Larry DeLuca)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Christian Survey
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 19:29:33 EDT
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this is a serious survey for anyone who is Christian.  If the results
are voluminous enough, I will summarize a response to here and net.religion.

I'm curious about how you, as a minority, are treated in the world.  Are
you accepted, are you "accepted" (read:  to your face you are, but there's
something funny here), or are you blatantly rejected?  Do you ever have
anyone threaten you?  Do the neighborhood kids pick on yours for their
beliefs?  Do you ever feel rejection from your children, who, searching
for their own identity may reject parts of yours in that search?  Do
you ever worry about being open with coworkers for fear of censure?
Do you think it affects your likelyhood of getting a job at any parti-
cular place?  Do you ever feel so pressured by outside forces that
even though God is there to lean on you doubt, if just for a little
bit, before you are reassured by prayer or other means?  

I'm not a Christian.  I'm sort of a humanist.  It's just that I've
never seen any sort of discussions on the Christians as a minority.
We talk about oppression of gays, Jews, blacks, and just about
everyone else.  Does being Christian (since major settlements in 
this country were first started by Christians, and the majority of
its people favor some form of Christianity) become a "preferred"
minority (here I speak largely to fundamentalists, who are a subset
that has recently rebelled against the teachings of the Catholic
and Protestant churches in an effort to "get back to the basics"
of what Christ's life was supposed to teach us)?  Do other Christians
(eg. Catholics) reject you for your beliefs, or do they accept them
as different interpretations of the same truths?

And how do you feel about their beliefs?

					larry...


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