Are you Christian or post-Christian?

[SecularMotion]

post-Christian (post-kris’chen) n. [20th C. back formation from Christian.] 1. Someone whom Christians would say is not a Christian, but whom non-Christians consider Christian; applied by Gary Dorrien and other scholars to Unitarian Universalism and other groups formerly considered to be liberal Christians. 2. A type of postmodern religion or spirituality with roots in the Christian tradition (also called “postmodern Christian spirituality”). 3. In certain cases, a non-theist or atheist who follows the ethical teachings of Jesus.

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[trotsky]

1. "a non-theist or atheist who follows the ethical teachings of Jesus"

Kinda begs the question, what are the "ethical teachings of Jesus" - i.e, those ethical ideas that were unique to him and hadn't already been taught by others before him? Doesn't seem right to give Jesus credit for something he didn't invent. It also feeds the soft bigotry meme that "Christian" = "good."

[thereismore]

2. Correct. I am a post-Christian in a different sense: Atheist, formerly of Christian persuasion. nt

[Humanist_Activist]

4. Jesus wasn't even that ethical, or, at the very least, was contradictory...

in many ways, common for a legendary figure who is a product of several different authors.

[Scuba]

3. Post, per the third definition.

[Humanist_Activist]

5. Not a post Christian, an ex-Christian, and I find the third definition insulting and bigoted. n/t

[cbayer]

9. How is it insulting and bigoted (keeping in mind that several members here have said

that they fall into that category)?

[Humanist_Activist]

11. Name ethics of Jesus or Christianity that are unique to them.

Also notice that I'm not the only person to point this out.

[cbayer]

12. It says nothing about uniqueness at all. It just says the ethical teachings of

christ.

You are correct about only one respondent identifying with #3. There is another who says they were in that category for awhile.

[Bradical79]

6. I went from Evangelical Christian, to post Christian (3rd definition), to none of the above...

I was briefly a non-theist who followed the ethical teachings of Jesus (or thought I did), I kind of abandoned that to. Some things I really couldn't justify. Like his ideas of when divorce is justified, where if you divorce and remarry you are committing adultery. Or that sexual immorality is the only valid reason for divorce.

Also, he wasn't exactly progressive by modern standards on issues of slavery either. Maybe relative to his peers 2000 years ago, but that's a pretty low bar, lol.

[Phillip McCleod]

7. none of the above

[mr blur]

8. None of the above and, yes, #3 is "insulting and bigoted".

[Marrah_G]

10. How about neither?

I'm Wiccan.