Practicing Muslim or Christian

[Anonymous]

I am not sure if other religions also use the described practicing, but I know bother Muslims and Christians who refer to themselves as a practicing Muslim or practicing Christian. To me that means that you are actively trying to live out the teachings of your faith vs it being a religion you were born into / raised in / identify with.

I have seen quite a few examples recently of people saying I am a practicing X but then they are not at all living in a way that would indicate they are trying to follow the teachings / texts of their faith. And not hiding that. So I am curious what people understand practicing Muslim / Christian to be and if you use that term, do you openly not follow the teachings of your faith and if so how do you rationalize these two things?

[Anonymous]

Never heard the term practicing Christian. The term Christian means “of Christ”, you don’t really need to practice anything. You either are of Christ or you aren’t. Maybe some people say it but I’ve never in my life heard it. Don’t know any Muslims so can’t comment about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never heard the term practicing Christian. The term Christian means “of Christ”, you don’t really need to practice anything. You either are of Christ or you aren’t. Maybe some people say it but I’ve never in my life heard it. Don’t know any Muslims so can’t comment about that.

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I've heard of the term "practicing Catholic." I think I used to use it in the context of being raised Catholic but not currently practicing.

[Anonymous]

Have you heard of MAGA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you heard of MAGA?

Yes, but I haven't heard of a practicing MAGA.

[Anonymous]

I'm Jewish and would use the word observant, not practicing.

[Anonymous]

I would consider a Muslim to be practicing if they:

- Pray their daily prayers regularly
- Fast during Ramadan
- Abstain from drinking alcohol, eating pork, and sexual relations outside of marriage

That's kind of the minimum to me. But I know people have their own personal meanings of if they consider themselves practicing or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you heard of MAGA?

Is no topic excluded from your politics obsessed vitriol? You need Jesus!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you heard of MAGA?

Is no topic excluded from your politics obsessed vitriol? You need Jesus!

Maybe they need a less crazy President. Even a sane Republican would do. There used to be some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you heard of MAGA?

Is no topic excluded from your politics obsessed vitriol? You need Jesus!

Maybe they need a less crazy President. Even a sane Republican would do. There used to be some.

If you’re depending on any politician to save you then you have a bigger problem. Humans will always disappoint you, I’ll pray you come to know Jesus.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like you are confusing the works practicing with perfect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Have you heard of MAGA?

Is no topic excluded from your politics obsessed vitriol? You need Jesus!

Maybe they need a less crazy President. Even a sane Republican would do. There used to be some.

If you’re depending on any politician to save you then you have a bigger problem. Humans will always disappoint you, I’ll pray you come to know Jesus.

I'm not depending on Jesus or a politician to save me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard the term practicing Christian. The term Christian means “of Christ”, you don’t really need to practice anything. You either are of Christ or you aren’t. Maybe some people say it but I’ve never in my life heard it. Don’t know any Muslims so can’t comment about that.

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I've heard of the term "practicing Catholic." I think I used to use it in the context of being raised Catholic but not currently practicing.

No. If you are raised a Catholic, that's what you think of yourself as. You can be a "lapsed Catholic" but you will never not have "Catholic" as part of who you are. A "practicing Catholic" is someone who actually goes to church and still believes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Never heard the term practicing Christian. The term Christian means “of Christ”, you don’t really need to practice anything. You either are of Christ or you aren’t. Maybe some people say it but I’ve never in my life heard it. Don’t know any Muslims so can’t comment about that.

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I've heard of the term "practicing Catholic." I think I used to use it in the context of being raised Catholic but not currently practicing.

No. If you are raised a Catholic, that's what you think of yourself as. You can be a "lapsed Catholic" but you will never not have "Catholic" as part of who you are. A "practicing Catholic" is someone who actually goes to church and still believes.

YES. I am a lapsed Catholic, and a former practicing Catholic. More often, I just call myself an atheist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would consider a Muslim to be practicing if they:

- Pray their daily prayers regularly
- Fast during Ramadan
- Abstain from drinking alcohol, eating pork, and sexual relations outside of marriage

That's kind of the minimum to me. But I know people have their own personal meanings of if they consider themselves practicing or not.

I just saw a video of a woman on who was on the Love Island show - where they spend all day in mini bikinis, jump between men and sleep in beds with different men each week, make out constantly, and do all kinds of sexual activities and challenges. This was after the show from the UK and one of the women who was on the show said in an interview that she was a practicing Muslim. Much of the behavior and expectations for someone on that show would be counter to the Quran and teachings of Islam yet she considers herself a practicing Muslim. I could see if she just said Muslim but I wondered why she added practicing.