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Anyway I’m not sure what Xtian (by which I mean any of y'all who believe that Jesus is God) needs to hear this, but the concept that “no means no” absolutely applies to proselytizing.

If your religion is so good, if you are so obviously different and special and #blessed, if you are clearly so more spiritually enlightened, then people will find their way to YOU. If you can’t lead by example and in fact have to resort to going door to door like an Amway salesman, then why would anyone want to join your weird group anyway?

Oh, and the inverse of the right to be free from religiously based harassment in the form of proselytizing isn’t proselytizing itself; it’s the right to SEEK information for yourself about any religious group.

There are plenty of wonderful Xtians out there who understand boundaries and pluralism, and this is not about you. It is entirely possible to be a dedicated and religiously-observant Xtian who is still opposed to missionizing and proselytizing.

There is an entire conceptualization of evangelism that is based on leading by example rather than on outreach, and the Xtians who actually really live their lives like this come the closest to embodying the ideals of Jesus that I’ve seen.

Can’t find the post now, but someone definitely reblogged something of mine with a comment in the tags that “this is tumblr, not tiktok; you can say ‘Christian’ here” and let me just say: that is emphatically NOT why I use Xtian.

I use Xtian because, like some more traditional Jews, saying “Christ” even as a prefix is a tacit acknowledgment that Jesus was, in fact, the messiah - something that I do not believe and which I find even more important to separate myself from since I was raised Xtian. It is not offensive to do so; “X” is frequently used to denote the Greek letter “Chi,” which is where the word 'Christ’ originally comes from. “Xian” would probably be slightly more accurate, and I did use it for a while until it confused enough people who thought I was referring to Xi'an. Which, fair enough, so I switched.

Honestly, I’d much rather use “Notzrim,” [נוצרים] which is a Hebrew word for Xtians and means (effectively) “followers of the one from Nazareth.” But like, nobody knows what that means in English, so Xtian it is until someone suggests something better.

But just to be 100% clear: I am not on TikTok, I will never be on TikTok, and this spelling has ~☆~nothing~☆~ to do with the quagmire that is TikTok.

Question, to my very limited knowledge, “jesus christ” was just the name of a person. Why does “christ” imply or acklowledge him as the messiah?(I do not know much about any side of this, and am agnostic, this is a question I am asking out of curiosity. I’m sorry if it is a stupid question to ask, I just don’t know what I don’t know.)

His name, as far as we know, was 'Yeshua ben Yusuf,’ not 'Jesus Christ.’

Christ comes from the Greek word christos, or 'anointed.’ So when you say 'Jesus Christ,’ you are saying 'Jesus the anointed one,’ you are not saying his name. This is why it is also acceptable for Christians to refer to him as 'Christ Jesus,’ because that’s not his name; you’re just saying 'anointed Jesus.’

'Christos,’ from which Christ is derived, was used in the Septuagint to translate the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ, literally 'moshiach’, 'Messiah,’ into Greek. Christos is to the Hebrew word מָשִׁיחַ as 'bread’ is to 'naan,’ it’s literally just another word which means the same thing in context.

So, as @unbidden-yidden said, calling him 'Christ’ or his followers 'Christians’ is a tacit acknowledgement and/or agreement that Jesus was, in fact, the messiah, which Jews very much do not believe.

This is like saying 'Spider the really cool one,’ and if you use this term, or like 'The followers of Spider the really cool one,’ you are acknowledging that I am, in fact, really cool. And if you don’t believe I am really cool, you might wish to use another term, as is explained above.

All of the information on the origin and usage of the term Christ, btw, is available by googling 'Christ word origin’ or going to the Wikipedia page for ’Christ (title).’ You could have easily found this yourself rather than asking a couple of Jews to re-explain this for you.

Anyway I’m not sure what Xtian (by which I mean any of y'all who believe that Jesus is God) needs to hear this, but the concept that “no means no” absolutely applies to proselytizing.

If your religion is so good, if you are so obviously different and special and #blessed, if you are clearly so more spiritually enlightened, then people will find their way to YOU. If you can’t lead by example and in fact have to resort to going door to door like an Amway salesman, then why would anyone want to join your weird group anyway?

Oh, and the inverse of the right to be free from religiously based harassment in the form of proselytizing isn’t proselytizing itself; it’s the right to SEEK information for yourself about any religious group.

There are plenty of wonderful Xtians out there who understand boundaries and pluralism, and this is not about you. It is entirely possible to be a dedicated and religiously-observant Xtian who is still opposed to missionizing and proselytizing.

There is an entire conceptualization of evangelism that is based on leading by example rather than on outreach, and the Xtians who actually really live their lives like this come the closest to embodying the ideals of Jesus that I’ve seen.