Does "Christians all too often come across as arrogant, judgmental, and ..." mean...?

If "they" refer to "others" in the writer's mind, how will you correct the sentence below:
Christians all too often create the impression in others that they are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous.

Supposed I've written the sentence, in which I've thought mistakenly that "they" referred to "others." And you as a reader, naturally think "they" refer to "Christians." But my original intention was indeed to express this:

Christians all too often create the impression in others' hearts that they (others) are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous (and in Christians' hearts, only Christians are humble, kindhearted and good-intentioned and correct)

Thank you JTT.
If "they" refer to "others" in the writer's mind, how will you correct the sentence below:
Christians all too often create the impression in others that they are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous.

Supposed I've written the sentence, in which I've thought mistakenly that "they" referred to "others." And you as a reader, naturally think "they" refer to "Christians." But my original intention was indeed to express this:

Christians all too often create the impression in others' hearts that they (others) are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous (and in Christians' hearts, only Christians are humble, kindhearted and good-intentioned and correct)

How about adding a word...

"Christians often create the impression that they judge others as arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous while they themselves are humble, kindhearted and good-intentioned."

oristarA wrote:

If "they" refer to "others" in the writer's mind, how will you correct the sentence below:
Christians all too often create the impression in others that they are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous.

Supposed I've written the sentence, in which I've thought mistakenly that "they" referred to "others." And you as a reader, naturally think "they" refer to "Christians." But my original intention was indeed to express this:

Christians all too often create the impression in others' hearts that they (others) are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous (and in Christians' hearts, only Christians are humble, kindhearted and good-intentioned and correct)

One of the dangers of pronouns is that they can lead to confusion of what they are referring to.

In the case of your sentence, however, it's fairly clear that "they" refers to "others" in which the impression is made.

Oftentimes writers will substitute the words "the former" and "the latter" instead of pronouns to clarify to whom they are referring, although it may lead to a clumsy sounding sentence.

"Christians all too often create the impression in others that the former are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous."

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Thank you JTT.
If "they" refer to "others" in the writer's mind, how will you correct the sentence below:
Christians all too often create the impression in others that they are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous.

Supposed I've written the sentence, in which I've thought mistakenly that "they" referred to "others." And you as a reader, naturally think "they" refer to "Christians." But my original intention was indeed to express this:

Christians all too often create the impression in others' hearts that they (others) are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous (and in Christians' hearts, only Christians are humble, kindhearted and good-intentioned and correct)

There is no antecedent for 'they', Ori, other than Christians. It's completely reasonable, following English grammar/semantics to know that 'they' is connected to Christians.

I'm sure that there are situations where the semantics allows antecedent/pronoun confusion to occur, but it unlikely here.

How can Christians create impressions in some amorphous group of "others" minds that the others are whatever Christians say they are.

If you to describe your situation,

Christians all too often create the impression in others' hearts that these others are arrogant, judgmental, and self-righteous.