RE: The Seven Types of Christians
April 26, 2018 at 4:00 pm
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2018 at 4:04 pm by Fake Messiah.)
I was thinking about the types of not only Christians, but religious people in general and I remembered this topic, so I decided to put it here to see what people think about it. Am I on the right track?
1. Misinformed
There are people that have just been fed with wrong info about the world and once they learn/ read that stories from their religious book did not and could not happen and that their reasoning is wrong they abandon religion.
2. Crazy
These religious people do hear and perhaps even read enough to know that their religious book is fake, but, still, they insist that it's true. They just claim that Sai Baba can fly or that Jesus heals people every day, that sky is filled with saucers and invisible aliens are around us. Why? Because being crazy is fun, if it wasn't fun there wouldn't be so many crazy people. They become crazy either because of personal tragedy that, rather then to cope with, they go into their fantasy land; it doesn't have to be some tragedy that happens in a moment or over a year, but simply life with it's problems and goings like death of parents, problems with kids, money etc. people simply learn to cope with those problems by simply fantasizing about ancient giants, angels, supernatural things.
I mean this is something that everybody does. Everybody takes a break from their problems by running away into fantasy be it into games, TV, books, comics, but religious people cling to their fantasy all the time. They stay in it. They don't know and don't want to get out.
That's perhaps why it's said that it's easier for younger people to leave religion than older. They may have even been in nr. 1 category and didn't encounter rationality in time so they turned into nr. 2.
3. Retarded people
Some people are just that: stupid. To them basic stuff are simply too complicated to understand and they resort to simple explanations (world is flat, world is 6000 years old and created by a wizard using magic etc). Difference between 2 & 3 is that people in 2 can understand a lot of reasonable explanations of how the world works and they look for "gaps" to hide their god they believe in, unless they had a really bad tragedy in their life so their craziness is much more intense and they believe in everything.
I guess some of the brain damage might not only be biological, but years of aggressive brainwashing and by that I mean that they don't even dare to think because of the devil. They are frightened. But I guess this is something I still work on.
4. People that make money off religion
They don't really care what's true or isn't true, they just follow the money. Mostly they just know it's all bullshit, since they themselves keep inventing it.
But of course it's not just religious leaders, there could be combination of 2 & 4: a person that is crazy, or just in a state of being misinformed and then gets a job on religious radio which brings them money so they rather care to protect their income.
1. Misinformed
There are people that have just been fed with wrong info about the world and once they learn/ read that stories from their religious book did not and could not happen and that their reasoning is wrong they abandon religion.
2. Crazy
These religious people do hear and perhaps even read enough to know that their religious book is fake, but, still, they insist that it's true. They just claim that Sai Baba can fly or that Jesus heals people every day, that sky is filled with saucers and invisible aliens are around us. Why? Because being crazy is fun, if it wasn't fun there wouldn't be so many crazy people. They become crazy either because of personal tragedy that, rather then to cope with, they go into their fantasy land; it doesn't have to be some tragedy that happens in a moment or over a year, but simply life with it's problems and goings like death of parents, problems with kids, money etc. people simply learn to cope with those problems by simply fantasizing about ancient giants, angels, supernatural things.
I mean this is something that everybody does. Everybody takes a break from their problems by running away into fantasy be it into games, TV, books, comics, but religious people cling to their fantasy all the time. They stay in it. They don't know and don't want to get out.
That's perhaps why it's said that it's easier for younger people to leave religion than older. They may have even been in nr. 1 category and didn't encounter rationality in time so they turned into nr. 2.
3. Retarded people
Some people are just that: stupid. To them basic stuff are simply too complicated to understand and they resort to simple explanations (world is flat, world is 6000 years old and created by a wizard using magic etc). Difference between 2 & 3 is that people in 2 can understand a lot of reasonable explanations of how the world works and they look for "gaps" to hide their god they believe in, unless they had a really bad tragedy in their life so their craziness is much more intense and they believe in everything.
I guess some of the brain damage might not only be biological, but years of aggressive brainwashing and by that I mean that they don't even dare to think because of the devil. They are frightened. But I guess this is something I still work on.
4. People that make money off religion
They don't really care what's true or isn't true, they just follow the money. Mostly they just know it's all bullshit, since they themselves keep inventing it.
But of course it's not just religious leaders, there could be combination of 2 & 4: a person that is crazy, or just in a state of being misinformed and then gets a job on religious radio which brings them money so they rather care to protect their income.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
