Why I don’t like christianity. (not to say that I don’t like Christians.)
- Christians follow a book of fables concocted by a Bronze Age desert tribe, attributing to it the answers to everything important in our world and denying well reasoned, testable, scientific discoveries and advancements until forced, after decades, centuries even millenia of naysaying, war, oppression, executions and banishments from society of people who dare to question the complete inerrancy and/or relevancy of said book of Bronze Age fables.
- Christians ascribe their individual sets of beliefs, occasionally moderated, often exacerbated, by clergy, to an invisible, inerrant and all powerful “friend” who lives in their minds. Not coincidentally, each person believes that “God” believes exactly the same way they do, yet each person has a different set of beliefs.
- Real world decisions with very serious consequences are made based on these commonly shared fantasies.
- Christianity teaches people to simply believe what they’re told and to develop cognitive systems for confirming ideas that they MUST hold, even if it conflicts with observable reality. The result is that reality is distorted to conform to their ideas of “God” and not the other way around.
- Many Christians believe in a “literal” interpretation of the Bible, as though every page contained therein, not one more, not one less, is the unquestionable, literal word of the entity that created and runs the universe. This is so utterly ignorant of the facts of linguistics, namely the fact that each person is reading a different translation that has been filtered through two to three languages. Moreover, there is no way that modern people have any sort of definitive understanding of all of the nuances of ancient Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. Yet, somehow, the New International Version, or “God forbid” the King James Version is word-for-word literally inerrant. And then there were all of those “books of the Bible” that were arbitrarily tossed out for political or other reasons.
- Emboldened by this sense of grandiosity and righteousness, from many peoples’ experience, a vast majority of Christians feel completely comfortable passing judgment upon other people, including other Christians, and are willing to use whatever means are at their disposal to cause them to conform to a “righteous path” (see: that which each individual in his head thinks is appropriate, and with which God inevitably agrees). Sure, there is Biblical scripture that cautions against such judgments. But if you’re going to make a statement about what Christianity is, or what Christians are, generally, the only meaningful measure is how the scripture, culture and customs as a whole are interpreted and implemented.
