(October 7, 2018 at 10:42 am)Mathilda Wrote: Obviously not all of them. Some are just default Xtians who happen to have been raised in a country where Xtianity is the predominant religion. But I mean that ones who take it seriously. So many of them are full of hatred or ascribe this emotion to their god. God hates sin, homosexuals or anything or anyone not like them. Why is this?
We're all familiar with the concept of a hateful Muslim in the same way, and although evangelical Xtians don't threaten to cut heads off unbelievers, it's not much better as a woman when you hear how they want to remove your bodily autonomy. Or the insidious conditioning of children where they instil a fear of hell into them.
Yet each one of these hateful Xtians will claim that their religion and their god is one of love. The double speak is of 1984-esque proportions.
The only thing I can see that is common to many of the hateful Xtians is lack of empathy.
Humans fear change, it is not just Christian conservatives, but conservatives in every religion. Buddhists and Hindus and Jews also have their individual sects and or families that fear outsiders and fear change. This stems from our evolution and our brains evolving to seek patterns and our evolutionary grouping.
You can be successful in grouping basing that grouping on very false claims.
Long before any written religion, nomadic humans feared everything around them, or praised things around them falsely believing those things/events had super human powers, such as the angry volcano, or the clouds that gave them water after a dry summer. They had all sorts of superstitions and bad guesses as to how life worked, and they projected their own qualities on the world around them. Christianity is merely one outcome of how bad guesses lead to the creation of a religion.
But yea, certainly not all Christians are fearful bigots. Lots of good Christians and Jews and Hindus and Muslims in the world. I simply dispute the claim that our behaviors as a species, good or bad, are the result of old books of mythology.
