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Originally Posted by BYXEagle
I do have a problem with other fraternities that don't act Christian getting offended by the Christian fraternity thing. . . . I just have a hard time understanding why so many regular fraternities attack Christian fraternities etc.
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In addition to what Kevin said above, with which I agree, I think you may have inadvertently hit on part of the reason yourself.
I've had no firsthand experience with BYX, so please don't take this as criticism of your org. The "Christian" fraternities and organizations that I have been exposed to, however, have represented a fairly narrow slice of Christianity -- specifically, the conservative, more fundamentalist slice. They did not have wide appeal for mainline Protestants, Catholics, Orthodox, etc. Yet more than once, I ran into the attitude that if one did not embrace their specific manifestation of Christianity, both in belief and behavior, one was not
really Christian.
Frankly, that experience makes me wonder what you mean by "other fraternities that don't act Christian." I also wonder if what you consider not acting Christian would match up with I consider not acting Christian.
Rightly or wrongly, perhaps some see an implicit assertion just by the existence of "Christian fraternities" that one cannot be in a "regular fraternity" if one is "really Christian."