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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Controversial topics for Christians

The top five most controversial topics among Christians, in order of controversy:

  1. Power (church discipline, who gets to be the 'boss' of what and who?)
  2. Children (baptism, child-rearing, confirmation & communion)
  3. Money (mine, yours and ours!)
  4. Gender Roles (family, church)
  5. Sex (before, in or outside marriage?)

The top five Unnecessarily controversial topics for Christians, in no particular order:

Science
Church and State
Literature
Music
Art

The top five topics that should be more controversial then they are for Christians:

The person of Jesus
The work of Jesus
Apologetics
The method of doing theology
Original Sin