My views on Christianity... (520 hits)
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Submitted by <mystikast.at.comcast.net> (View user info) at 2004-04-23 22:24:57 EDT
I believe that very few christians actually believe deeply in a god for valid reasons...
From my experience as a christian, arguments with christians, and talking about christianity with many peers, I have come to conclude that:
Christians believe in a higher being as a means of comfort or insecurity.
They use it as a justification of a good deed, feeling that there should be a reward, and that reward is the gates to heaven. You give some extra money to a kid you don't know in school, because you cant feel better for yourself, and feeling as a better person, you need justification and a reward as an individual. I feel this way some times, though I am not christian. It's human nature. Knowing that there will be no reward, only self-satisfaction, is not enough for some people.
As a means of help. Why do so many people in third-world countries believe in a god, because they have little or no education, and need some means of, belief, that they will one day be redeemed for living in the poor countries they do. "God will save us, he will help us, we will be rewarded."
Did you know that religion is the cause of the most unnatural deaths in the world. Add every non-religious unnatural death ever recorded, and it will never equal the amount of religion influenced unnatural deaths.
For a thousand years the Church was a tyrannical dictatorship that used religion to control the uneducated masses. Yeah, the church used the power instated by false teachings, the persuade the minds of people, to do what they wanted. Let me give an example: let's say way back when, there were not proper cooking techniques to remove all the harmful materials from pork. Great teachers, wise ones, and nobles told the people not to eat the pork, because it could kill them, but they did not listen. In order to prevent the people from eating the pork, a rabbi told the people that god said not to eat the pork, it was a great sin, and so the people listened. I am not sure if this is why it is against jewish law to eat pork, but I used it as an example.
It is also believed that religion was instated as means of a moral system. Act immoral, do wrong, disobey, and you will be sent to Hell. Do good, give us money, follow the system, and you shall spend eternity with god.
Eternity with god? Even if I believed such, I would not want an eternity of anything. Eternity is a very hard concept to understand, but if you understand the concept of eternity, you know that an eternity of anything, is something, to be undesired.
Christians also have a tendency to use circular logic.
The bible is true because god wrote it, and god is real because the bible says so.
I have attended catholic schools for 11 years, and I will now base on what I've picked up from my religion teachers, and the rest of the religious community.
-Anything good that happens is a gift or miracle from god, and anything bad that happens is the result of "free will."
-Whenever something is unexplainable, it is said you just need to have "faith."
But what is faith? I always hear my teacher saying faith is a gift from god, to explain what we can't understand.
Okay, so let me get this strait; anything bad is the result of free will, and anything that is unexplainable by the bible or other, is explained by faith. So if we can't understand, we need more faith, an understanding of that which we cannot understand.
That is the sum of my thoughts on christianity, for the most part.
Copyright © 2004 Jeff Laverty
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Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2004-04-24 08:20:43 EDT (#)
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I just stopped reading at this point: "Christians believe in a higher being as a means of comfort or insecurity. "
Because... well, DUH.
Submitted by mumbo_jumbo (user info) at 2004-04-23 23:53:09 EDT (#)
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I'm sick of reading religion stuffs
Submitted by rabbidmonkey (user info) at 2004-04-23 23:10:22 EDT (#)
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Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2004-04-23 23:10:14 EDT (#)
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Religion week marches on.
Submitted by Festering_Corpse (user info) at 2004-04-23 23:08:25 EDT (#)
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religion is a double edge sword, you get cut on either side
Submitted by space_cowboy (user info) at 2004-04-23 22:59:28 EDT (#)
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Great post, and I should know becuase I find myself being guilty of some of those things as a christian, even though I try hard to not do some of them.
There are so many people putting posts about stuff they know nothing about, but I totally repsect the fact that you were educated as a Christian, which makes you of all people qualified to disagree.
Way to go on the stuff about the Bible too, becuase I hate when people try to take the Bible as a word for word manual on Christanity. This just does not work when it is a book that was translated through dozens of languages, and there are currently hundreds of versions. It is all about interpretation, and we are not even interpreting the original document.
Submitted by ornerybastard (user info) at 2004-04-23 22:55:05 EDT (#)
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Precise view of Christianity and all religion in general, but no new ideas here.
Submitted by Yams (user info) at 2004-04-23 22:44:03 EDT (#)
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I'm very glad you stated that you were generalizing in that first line. I agree with you completely on that point. Many Christians today don't believe in God as they should. They use Him as an excuse or some such thing.
However, that means it can't really be your thoughts on Christianity as a whole, just the majority of Christians. And I'm not even going to be a jerk and -2 you because I don't like what you said. Some people find that amusing, I suppose. Maybe it inflates their egoes and makes them feel more right.
Submitted by Tom (user info) at 2004-04-23 22:33:06 EDT (#)
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Not a bad look at the religion...