TSR Christian Society (X-SOC) Episode IV: A New Hope

Naturally. What else would we do anyway?





Welcome

Don't forget handing out flyers!

Naturally. What else would we do anyway?

#chastity4lyf

Until marriage you mean surely? I certainly would not be pleased if, having waited until marriage, my new wife tells me she believes #chastity4lyf!

Attend strip clubs, gamble and do drugs.

Discuss how holy we are? That's like 60% of my waking day.

No, that would be #celibacy4lyf. Chastity means generally being chaste - so no sex outside marriage, not thinking lustfully of others, generally not treating others as objects

A lot of people get the two confused.
Everyone is called to chastity, not everyone is called to celibacy.

Apparently I'm called to celibacy

Oh ok, thanks for explaining that. #chastity4lyf indeed!

Do make sure you don't do anything you'll regret later on
You'll find people who don't want to go out and get completely smashed every night soon enough


I'm glad you had a better time today, and I will keep her in my prayers.


Welcome

Naturally. What else would we do anyway?





Welcome

Hello im new to this thread

Hey. Welcome to the soc.

My experience of my university CU (I was kind of semi-Christian for a while but spending significant amounts of time with what I can only describe as ultra-conservative fascist Christians that seem to congregate in surprising numbers in Oxford put me off for life) was that people will all just judge the hell out of anyone who gets in a relationship. I remember one of my best friends started going out with a non-Christian and the cruelty and bitterness from some of the other CU members was appalling. Even inter-Christian relationships provoked bitching about how they were getting too lustful or how one was a terrible influence on the other and forcing them away from the CU and God etc. By all means go out with a Christian if you like them as a person but any relationship where a CU is involved is a dangerous move I think.

Hello im new to this thread

Hahaha that's quite a good way of putting it!

The level of pettiness some of the CU had though was truly ridiculous to the point where it stopped being amusing and was just absolutely ridiculous. Example: When it came to appointing new CU reps (basically 'leaders') for the college for next year it was basically civil war. Of course the simple thing to have done would be just to have a fair vote to decide, but for some reason the previous CU reps got to make the choice. This meant that perhaps one of the most unpopular people in college ended up as one of the reps because they were chums with the previous reps. Sensible eh?

Or how about the huge drama/controversy about whether or not a girl could be allowed to give the main reading at the annual CU chapel service for the rest of college. Nowhere else would people come out with lines such as 'this is too radical' or 'we don't want to RUIN the opportunity to preach to the rest of college by letting a girl do it'.

I still don't think they understand why I ran away and never returned

Thanks for the warm welcome

I wouldn't quite say I'm Christian. Well I probably am, but I've found my time at Oxford has kind of increased my doubts a lot. Though reading through this forum has encouraged me that there are some decent/reasonable people out there still and kind of encouraged me to soldier on a bit It's reassuring I'm not the only one who finds OICCU absolutely terrifying. I was starting to think it was just me...

So are many of the best people I know

Thanks for the warm welcome

I wouldn't quite say I'm Christian. Well I probably am, but I've found my time at Oxford has kind of increased my doubts a lot. Though reading through this forum has encouraged me that there are some decent/reasonable people out there still and kind of encouraged me to soldier on a bit It's reassuring I'm not the only one who finds OICCU absolutely terrifying. I was starting to think it was just me...

The sad thing is that when CU's become like this they just put people off looking into Christianity completely. We had a mission week in my 2nd year where some of my college CU were basically standing in cloisters chasing after people with bibles and going room to room door knocking in large groups. This in itself wasn't bad but what lost a lot of goodwill from the wider college was the pretty aggressive approach to evangelism taken towards people who the CU knew were of other faiths. The one thing people in college bring up about that week is how terribly the CU behaved to the Jews and Muslims in our college which shows all it really achieved was alienation.

Ah OK. Maybe your mum remembers? I just ask because sometimes a good starting place can be the denomination you were baptised into, since then you don't have to go through the whole rigmarole of officially joining (I'm thinking far later down the line here, once you've settled on a church you like! )