Do some Christians need prejudice?

It's a fact insofar as I've personally experienced it - one church I visited I have particularly in mind, where the preacher specifically stated that no one outside of their own congregation had a true relationship with Christ, and thus were likely going to hell. (Needless to say I was disgusted.)I guess my feeling on the source of the prejudice comes down to this: Why would you bother practicing a religion that wasn't the "best" religion, and thus "more true" than all other forms of religion? How do you convert people without the concept of being better than competitive sects? If you think your practice is the "best", then it follows that you view the practice of others as lesser.It seems that some degree of prejudice is built into organized religion, otherwise it wouldn't be organized as a separate entity.

If you represent a "true Baptist", then you've proven berberry's point. You are prejudiced against certain groups, and believe that they will be punished by God.I don't know if "Christians need prejudice", as the thread title asks, but hopefully you realize that you definitely fall into the "prejudiced" category making rants like this.Have you ever been friends with a homosexual person? I'm guessing that a professional historian would be able to spell "probably" and "since", and would know that "professionalize" is not a word, but would know how to spell it if it was.As a stylistic note - why don't you try writing your posts in a word processing program so that you can run spell-check before posting? It would make your posts less painful to read.

ack.I will not respond to your hate-speech, because of AdminAsgara's understandable warning above.However, if you wish to discuss the other comments I made in my previous post, regarding you contradicting yourself regarding prejudice, feel free to respond to those comments.

You said you would go the extra mile to change them into something they are not.That's like me saying I'm not racist because I befriend black people to bleach their skin white. It's absurd.The truth is, getting back to the topic (somewhat), is that you hold negative and absolutely false misconceptions about a group of people that you have never interacted with on any level.That is prejudice.On top of that, you believe if that group doesn't "turn" away from their nature, that your God will punish them with wrath, possibly, to use your disgusting term, by "deleting" them.That is mixing up your prejudice with your Christianity... and is not Christian at all.

And thanks for that. Accepting homosexuality does not make someone not a Christian. In fact, if you have an example of Christ mentioning homosexuality I would love to see it - in another thread. I'm guessing you don't realize that simply using the derogatory label "homos" would be deemed hate-speech by many people.You say you aren't using hate-speech, that you speak the "truth". One man's "truth" is another man's hate-speech. Some people speak what they believe to be "true", like "all people with black skin are lazy" or "all Baptist men beat their wives". These things aren't true, they are rooted in ignorance and prejudice.I believe that all of your statements regarding homosexuality come from similar ignorance and prejudice. You've made some blanket statements about homosexuality without providing any evidence whatsoever.Please, take Asgara's advice and enter a discussion in one of the homosexuality threads, or start your own (or at least read existing ones). I'll be happy to continue our discussion there, but this will likely be my last response to you in this thread.I think you can learn a lot, and perhaps you'll realize why your statements appear so hateful.