Why are Christians so…?

Photo by Natalie Dee

You’re probably already familiar with Google’s autosuggest feature (even if you didn’t know what it was called). That’s when you begin typing a phrase in the Google search box, and Google completes it with a number of suggestions.

Because the suggestions are based on the most common searches starting with that phrase, it can also reveal popular opinions and beliefs about a specific topic. The website Blame it on the Voices decided to see how Google’s autofill would complete phrases like:  why are christians so… and  why are muslims so… (You can see the results here.)

They even took it a step further and created a venn diagram to demonstrate what traits people perceive Christians and Muslims as having in common. And here they are...

• Crazy
• Hateful
• Ignorant
• Stupid

I decided to conduct my own experiment with why are christians so... and came up with the following:

If this merely confirms in your mind that we are being “persecuted” for what we believe, think again. When I type in why are atheists so…, I get:

So my own venn diagram shows the traits that we share with non-believers are:

• Stupid
• Mean
• Hateful
• Intolerant
• Annoying

Are you surprised that we seem to have the exact same attitude towards those that disagree with us as non-believers have towards us? And does it bother you that we do?

Maybe Google’s algorithms can answer this: why are christians so unloving?