The Christian Union.
Basically it's a youth Christian organisation run by students at British universities.

Their average members are middle class, middle England kids who think smoking a J constitutes a drug addiction, sex is the root of all that is evil in the world and Muslims/Sikhs/Atheists/Jews etc are all just confused individuals that need to be shown the "Good News".

I went to a couple of meetings when I started uni with the hopes of making some Christian mates and within about an hour I had stunned the room into silence with my announcement that I think... It's ok to be gay. From then on I was a lost cause to them, imagine if I had actually been gay? How many poor individuals have been alienated like that due to their purile ignorance?

They honestly see homosexuality as a disease that can be "cured" by God and it sickens me to the core.

But possibly the thing that infuriates me the most is their opinion that I am somehow "not quite a real Christian" because I question my religion rather than blindly accepting it like some bleating sheep, smoke the odd spliff and enjoy imbibing alcoholic fluids and pre-marital sex.
(Dok Zombie Cash, gash, pie and mash., Sat 3 May 2008, 0:46, 12 replies)

At my Uni
The Christian Union was thrown out of the Students' Union after writing a letter to a gay student telling him he was ill and Jesus could 'cure' him.

The LGBT society were a bunch of twuntish holier-than-thou Peter Tatchell wannabees anyway, so it was fun watching two of the more irritating societies on campus rip each other apart.
(Axeman Jim, Sat 3 May 2008, 0:51, closed)

At what point
do you stop being a real Christian and start being an un-real one? In my experience Christian's pick and choose what they want to with regards the rules they've been given.

Axeman - You weren't at Warwick by any chance were you?
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Sat 3 May 2008, 0:57, closed)

The only time
I was ever confused by the mention of god during a theology debate was with a member of the CU.

During my undergrad they applied to affiliate with my Union, we said no, because of one clause which stated that to become a member of the exec you had to sign a declaration of faith. This clause = exclusion policy = against out oen bye laws. After much bickering and whining they formed Funky instead which was the same except anyone could be on the exec.

I tell you the born again are the worst. I say try them all on anti-pyschotic drugs and see what happens
(StyX is staring at you, yes YOU!!!, Sat 3 May 2008, 0:57, closed)

@tweebianmonkey
Correct, sir, Warwick Uni 1999-2002
(Axeman Jim, Sat 3 May 2008, 0:58, closed)

@Axeman - Aha
I started there the year you vacated. I don't think the CU got back in in that time. Or wanted to.
There was chat about it every year or so.
Towards the end of my degree they started feeding hot chocolate to the revellers leaving Top Banana. Who the heck thought *that* was a good idea? My rather militant pal tried to get them to turn it into wine.
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Sat 3 May 2008, 1:05, closed)

They did what??
Most Christians give soup to the poor. Giving hot chocolate to pissed up idiots leaving Warwick's infamous shit music night is not really on the same level.
(Axeman Jim, Sat 3 May 2008, 1:07, closed)

I don't know
I never went in the Chaplaincy. Can't think why.
It does seem a little odd.
I don't know if they did it while you were there, but we regularly had people standing up at the end of lectures and advertising a talk in the Chaplaincy at lunch time. They always made sure we heard the phrase "FREE FOOD!" plenty of times.
The best was a girl who stood up at the end of a Global Geophysics course and thanked God for the wonderful perfect planet he has given us. That said at the end of an hour where the lecturer had been describing how if and when the Canary Islands collaps most of the US Eastern coast will be obliterated.
But I think I'm ranting...
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Sat 3 May 2008, 1:13, closed)

And
Jesus was a massive cock-jockey who caned the speed anyway. Shalom.
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Sat 3 May 2008, 1:22, closed)

Gay?
I don't remember seeing anywhere in the bible where it says its not ok to be gay. Saying that though i have never actually read it. I prefer to worship Thor
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Sat 3 May 2008, 9:39, closed)

this is all true
And I had to sit on my hands when my gay friend, who got Christianised at uni, got married. To a woman. Otherwise I would have jumped up and down at the "Does any person know of any reason..." and yelled "YES, HE FANCIES BOYS!"

Being gay is fine. Being gay and marrying a person of the sex you're not attracted to is not fine. Grrr
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Sat 3 May 2008, 10:23, closed)

Warwick CU
still give out hot chocolate to drunken idiots after Top Banana and they are still the most annoying society on campus though apart from Pride. Or People and Planet. Or those annoying cunts who organise the 'One World' festival.

Me? I'm part of the unions most hated society. We only plan the biggest student beer festival in the country and and then spend the profits visiting other beer festivals and going to the pub. Huzzah!
(antenna, Tue 6 May 2008, 1:24, closed)

I was a member of a CU in school...
I only went along to meet some friends, and for a good discussion.

Had a great laugh though, half the girls hated me, half of them loved me!

The guy who ran it was brilliant, was willing to accept that certain aspects of his religion were flawed, especially sex before marriage.

The best was his attitude on drinking, and 'christians' looking down on it - "What do we do communion with, ribena? It's wine you dopes!"
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 8 May 2008, 9:35, closed)