You need someone "other" to keep you stimulated.

[MoreCoffee]

I'm looking and thinking that to keep a site alive and interesting one needs the Other to liven things up a little.

I wonder if that has always been so. If the Israelites needed opponents and if Christians from the beginning have needed the other for evangelism, for stimulating interactions, and to fulfil their mission.

I wonder ....

 

[Lamb]

Interesting thoughts.

Remember when we had the no debate Christian forum section? No one used it really and we ended up closing it down. You could be onto something.

 

[Forgiven1]

I think you are on to something here.

 

[Lanman87]

Life would be boring if we all agreed on everything. Be it politics, religion, or sports or favorite colors or anything else. It is when disagreement turns to hatred or violence that I have a problem.

 

[Albion]

I'm looking and thinking that to keep a site alive and interesting one needs the Other to liven things up a little.

I wonder if that has always been so. If the Israelites needed opponents and if Christians from the beginning have needed the other for evangelism, for stimulating interactions, and to fulfil their mission.

I wonder ....

In the case of early Christian missionaries, I'd say that, as we know, they faced a world of people who were unsympathetic to or uninformed about this new religion. The point is that no particular Other, if by that we mean a confirmed opponent, was needed then and there for the reason that almost everybody was still to be introduced to Christianity.

But when it comes to discussions on CH and needing an Other, I'm not so sure what the answer is.

Some threads have been posted in which a debate was all but requested...and yet hardly anyone responded. I suppose that was simply because the readers weren't interested in that particular issue or else saw it as not being especially controversial, even if the author of the thread did.