(August 21, 2019 at 11:52 pm)Belaqua Wrote: A recent post from this forum:
Quote:Exhibit one of the sickening misanthropy without which there can be no Christianity.
Is this over the top? Does everyone here (except me) agree that the existence of Christianity demands "sickening misanthropy"?
Well the crux of Christianity IS that all humans are BORN dirty and wrong, somehow. Unclean and deserving of eternal torment by virtue of simply being, irrespective of their acts.
That could definitely be interpreted as misanthropic don't you think? Lol
Now I would consider the quote to be a bit over-the-top if the author had castigated all Christians as misanthropic, yes.
But as far as Christianity's premise is concerned, no.
I mean, sure the story goes that God loved us so much that he was willing to have his Son murdered just so he tolerate looking at our our fugly, sinful mugs...But that still doesn't change the fact that the Yahweh character does indeed regard humans to be utter fucking garbage no matter what they actually do, until they ADMIT IT.