Fraternity and Greek Lifestyle

[ABOVEALL]

What are your views concerning Christians?

[SisterT]

Aboveall, since your topice was basically the same, I merged it with this thread that had already been started. 

[Jniles_NCF]

i understand the concpet of it and what it means especially when your on campus...but i personally don't fee lthe need to join one ..it would be a step back for me..the things it teaches you as far as sister hood and being you brothers keeper and all that that's cool but i really don't agree with making my self look liek an idiot to be apart of it... what does that show that i'm a mindless idiot who knows how to take a beating..i took beating for the first 12 years of my life and my ancestors took them for more then 400 years so please i'd be the first one to knock somebody out if they tried to come up to me with some paddle like they was tryin to beat me..i'm a grown man what i look like letting some next dude beat me?....

[2KlubKlarity]

First off, let me say I am not greek, but my organization is involved with a fraternity. I did my organization because I loved what the ladies represented and how God was first in alot of their lives. As for the fraternity we are associated with, I have nothing to do with them. I simply respect that is where we came from, but i'm in this org. because I wanted to be a part of something different. I wasn't about to pick a sorority by my family members status or because of the lifestyle I appear to have. In my case, it was not about that. The people who know me, know that I don't become apart of anything if it isn't positive. I admit some organizations do take things far, but that is them and I can't judge how they wanna do things. God will surely lead them in the right direction as he has done for me. You can't judge somebody because of what they want to do. I know who I am and I know what I represent.

[favoritepsalm1]

Everyone's opinions on this subject are well and good, but obviously the best thing for a person to do is the read the Word of God, hear from Him, and discern what is right.  I am a member of one and made great and important friendships and connections through it.  It led to an opportunity to be over our church's step team.  Besides those good ties, I've outgrown it.  I would not go back and change the fact that I joined, what I did to get in, or what I did while in college because it was part of my processing.  It makes me appreciate even more what God has brought me from.  If we act like we've been saved and sin-free all our lives the we're liars and the truth is not in us.   So looking down on those that did join or are going to just isn't right.  I think I saw masons mentioned.  Fraternies and Sororities, although they used Greek letters to identify themselves, really have deep-rooted origins in freemasonry and eastern stars, which regularly have halls on the grounds of our churches.  Is there a difference?

[2KlubKlarity]

Everyone's opinions on this subject are well and good, but obviously the best thing for a person to do is the read the Word of God, hear from Him, and discern what is right.  I am a member of one and made great and important friendships and connections through it.  It led to an opportunity to be over our church's step team.  Besides those good ties, I've outgrown it.  I would not go back and change the fact that I joined, what I did to get in, or what I did while in college because it was part of my processing.  It makes me appreciate even more what God has brought me from.  If we act like we've been saved and sin-free all our lives the we're liars and the truth is not in us.   So looking down on those that did join or are going to just isn't right.  I think I saw masons mentioned.  Fraternies and Sororities, although they used Greek letters to identify themselves, really have deep-rooted origins in freemasonry and eastern stars, which regularly have halls on the grounds of our churches.  Is there a difference?

Exactly! Well put.

[jlewis]

I am a member of both a fraternity  and another "organization".

Bottom line,  if its not for you, then its just not for you.

I also outgrew all of the "college" fraternity lifestyle as I got older ( I'm 35 now). But the friendships and contacts that I made throughout the years have been priceless.  Many of you are talking about situations you don't completely know about, especially if you aren't a member of one of these organizations.   As a fraternity member,  my fraternity never made me take an oath  to some false Gods.

we did take an oath of secrecy.

Guess what.....

So do doctors, lawyers, congressmen, the president, military members ( if you have a secret or top secret clearence) and a host of other occupations.  If you are in technology and you sign a non-disclosure agreement ( commonly referred to as an NDA) then you too have taken an oath of secrecy which is enforcable by law.

Now I won't deny that hazing takes place, and I don't agree with it anymore.  This is a problem that needs to be fixed and it is getting out of hand.  But this is primarily a situation in the Black Pan-Hellenic council, and many other fraternities and sororities don't have this problem.


Ther are organizations that do take oaths to false gods and swear allegience to stuff that I wouldn't be caught  dead up against.  many of these organizations are said to be church/biblically based.

So bottom line, if its not for you cool.  If its something that you are interested in, do some research on the organization, look at the poeple in the local chapter, check the background history, and make you own decision.

jlewis