| Doobie_wop said: It's really easy. When a belief has the amount of influence that Christianity does and then the people who follow that belief spout stupid shit, pass stupid laws and are pretty much a fish hook that's dragging society back instead of allowing it progress, then it's really easy to find fault in the belief and critisize it, especially when someone elses belief effects the welfare of people who don't follow that belief. Christians are also the ones on the attack, when factual knowledge, progressive thought and non-christian values are brought into a discussion, they become extremely defensive and begin to reference their belief to prove their belief. You can't reference the Bible to prove Jesus is a real person, you can't reference the Bible to say the Earth is the centre of the Universe and you can't reference the Bible when making laws that prohibit same sex marriage, it'd be like referencing the Iliad to prove some point about the Trojan war. A religion is also not a race, gender or sexual orientation, all those things aren't beliefs and the person has no control in the matter and also don't try to push those traits on to other people.To stay relevant, Christianity has to convert people, to do so, they also have to trick people into converting, convince their children from a young age to become Christians and pay their way into converting people that don't have the wealth, the knowledge or the desire to back back against it (it's the reason why travelling church groups freak me out, taking advantage of poorer countries, just so that they can push their religion on to others). Then you have all the usual mumbo jumbo, Christianity promotes discrimination, more wars have been fought in the name of Christianity than any other non religous belief, backward thinking, pedophile priests, KKK, crazy Pope, spread of misinformation, reluctance to teach evolution in schools, ignorance, ridiculous amount of contradictions and hypocrisy, influence and Christians are usually hard to argue against, especially when they fall back on the 'It is what it is, because God says so' line. That's my take anyway. |
To respond to your statements, I would argue that whoever was a part of these aggregious activities (KKK, pedophile priests, crazy people, ect ect ect), those people may claim to be christian and say they do these things in the name of Christ, but in actuallity they are not following christianity at all. All of the wars in the name of christianity should have never taken place, but they did. People may commit terrible acts, spew racists remarks, and condemn others, but that is not true christianity. there are some terrible people in the world that claim to be "christian", but they only display a tainted and distorted view for others to see and think thats what being a christian is all about. The difference in a person claiming to be a follower of christianity and a person who really is a follower are two very different people. The bible teaches that all are equal, so racism shares no part of true christianity. people that slander others is wrong, and therefore those that claim to be a christian and do those things are doing things that true christianity teaches against. many people see christians as people with an "Im better than you" attitude. Thats wrong. Everyone is equal with different set of beliefs and values. If a person becomes a christian and then claims they are perfect and everything they do from then on is "in the name of christianity", they are dead wrong. A christian will make as many mistakes as one that is non christian. So being a pedifile, racist, murderer, bigot, slanderer, hate monger, ect is not part of true christian teachings. Those are things that some people just do no matter if they are christian or non christian. So those that go around doing those things are not displaying what true christianity is. And honestly you will not find one person in this world that claims to be a christian that dosn't do bad stuff like that at one some point in their life. The point is christians are not perfect and no one should expect them to be.
No matter what belief system you have, it is a religion. The choice to believe something is a religion. A religion is a set of values to a paticular person or group. So an atheist is religious. also an agnostic is religious. whatever your belief system is that is your religion. So bashing anyone for being "religious" is actually bashing our way of making choices about what we believe.
