- Christianity is based on fear
- Christianity preys on the innocent
- Christianity is based on dishonesty
- Christianity is extremely egocentric
- Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality
- Christianity breeds authoritarianism
- Christianity is cruel
- Christianity is anti-intellectual, anti-scientific
- Christianity has a morbid, unhealthy preoccupation with sex
- Christianity produces sexual misery
- Christianity has an exceedingly narrow, legalistic view of morality
- Christianity encourages acceptance of real evils while focusing on imaginary evils
- Christianity depreciates the natural world
- Christianity models hierarchical, authoritarian organization
- Christianity sanctions slavery
- Christianity is misogynistic
- Christianity is homophobic
- The Bible is not a reliable guide to Christ's teachings
- The Bible is riddled with contradictions
- Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions
Bad Religion - "Amercian Jesus"
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi
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I find it hard to believe that none of your regular trolls have left anything here yet.
ReplyDeleteRE dikki
ReplyDeleteMaybe my regular trolls are too busy praying for my salvation? Either that, or wishing hellfire upon me.
If Christianity just focused on the actual teachings of Jesus as opposed to the supernatural elements, it wouldn't be all those things in the list, and would be a lot easier to live with.
ReplyDeleteThe Christianity that is imposed on a lot of the world, reflects the conservative worldview of its adherents. Change the worldview, and you change Christianity.
Hey, Mahatma was no saint, either.
ReplyDeleteWatch Penn 'n Teller's 'Holier Than Thou' segment.
Gandhi had a...problem w/black folk.
RE deacon
ReplyDeleteIt is always the supernatural idea of either jesus or any other human like figure that I have a problem with.
RE KA
I am sure that gandhi had his faults, one of which may have been racism. Luckily for me, I am no hero worshipper, either of the visible or the invisible kind; so it is easy for me to accept that people can be a mixture of "good attributes and bad ones."
Just mention that George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard are Christians. That surely is enough to convince any sane person that religion stinks!
ReplyDeleteCheers and hope to hear from you soon!
I can relate to your take on "hero worship", Beep!.
ReplyDeleteGood list. Great song!
Hi Beep...I would just add one more to the list...the frightens me the most these days. Even more than the homophobes who are always trying to kill me. And that is that by making people believe that they are going to a better world they make saving this one less important.In fact some of them even want to see the planet burn because they think their hallucinatory "messiah" will come down and save them. The biggest pig homophobe we have in Canada...who is the head of a "Christian" college...believes the Rio Earth Summit declaration is a "pagan document." It seems to me we are getting pretty close to the time when humanity is going to have to choose between the hateful superstitious nonsense of religion,and its very survival....
ReplyDeleteto me, the one that I see affecting our country the most today is the "anti-intellectual" and "anti-scientific" aspects. truly, truly scary
ReplyDeletePsst!
ReplyDeleteThere's a typo towards the bottom.
RE l
ReplyDeleteI agree, there seems to be an anti-intellectual and anti-science push by the religious rightwing. Popularist movements have historically been antagonistic towards these elements.
The absurdity seems to know no bounds. I have spoekn to people who are vehement about banning books like "Harry Potter" - my guess is that they do not see themselves as part of an anti-intellectual mobement, but part of "god's police" - they will fit in nicely with a police state mentality, I think...
RE KA
I wouldn't be surprised. I never use spell check. Which probably accounts for the many and varied spelling mistakes on my blog. lol
RE simon
I can understand your fears. I was speaking to a young man I know (in person) who came out about 10 years ago. He was lamenting how he would NEVER have come out, if he had known how much recent public opinion was going to turn him into a pariah.
He no longer feels safe, nor a respected member of the community - even though he has a good career and a loving long term partner.
"The absurdity seems to know no bounds."
ReplyDeleteTrue.
Regards,
-Troll
Welcome back under. I do enjoy the presence of a troll or 2. :)
ReplyDeleteI see you are know limiting yourself to comments about comments. Oh well, my your "trollness" improve - we like a bit of action around here.
Greeting to you too. I must say you style has improved.
ReplyDeleteI am also quite curious about your political views concerning such things as humantarian aid and North Korea. You should add a little variety to you posting.
P.S.
"I see you are know limiting yourself to comments about comments."
Nope.
RE under
ReplyDeleteYou cannot imagine how ecstatic I am knowing that the recent quality of my posts meets with your approval.
Thanks for the link. I created a blog entry about it myself.
ReplyDeleteWith regard to the coming out thing, I'm against it. I mean, the whole concept is just that of conforming to our heterosexist culture. I guess I'm technically "in the closet," though I don't exactly refrain from admitting that certain guys are attractive or sexy.
RE keith
ReplyDeleteThanks for the blog entry. It is a shame, I think, that people have to state overtly their homosexuality or their heterosexuality.
But this is the influence of an extremely anti homosexual agenda pushed by various religious groups.