(January 31, 2012 at 4:59 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Let's hope, however, that it does implode.
I'm convinced that it already has imploded to a very large degree. Christianity as a viable religion is already basically dead. I mean, sure there are radical fundamentalists and evangelists trying hard to resurrect it, but their efforts will indeed meet with failure to be sure.
With every passing generation people are wising up. Believe it or not.
One thing that keeps Christianity afloat is indeed Islam. Since Islam is basically based on the same God and is still a quite powerful political force in Arab countries this stimulates die-hard Christian fundies to work hard against that facet of the religion. So until the Arab countries start to wise up, Christianity will remain stimulated.
And of course, it works the other way around too. Vociferous Christian fundies in this country serve to incite and stimulate Muslims in the Arab countries. So that "Holy War" will continue until everyone wises up.
I often wonder what effect it might have had on the Arab countries if the Western world would have wised up already and basically renounced Christianity as having no more merit than Greek mythology.
Because actually, while believers in Christianity may not realize it, their continued belief in Christianity actually loans merit and support to Islam. Because after all, they are both based on the same foundational doctrines.
So when Christians support Christianity they are actually supporting the God of Islam at the same time without even realizing it.
The thing that really cracks me up is that cultures like the Taliban behave much like the ancient Hebrews were instructed to behave by the biblical God. Yet Christians find that male-chauvinistic behavior to be despicable.
In other words, Christians basically view the God of the Old Testament as being a despicable God. Yet they continue to support those ancient texts as being a correct description of what God is supposedly like.
It's insanity beyond insanity. Truly.
That modern day Christians can't see through this nonsense is the true mystery.
A hateful male-chauvinistic vengeful jealous God has his son butchered on a pole, by humans, so that he can forgive humans for their sins?
The fact that this makes sense to any human being at all is truly beyond my comprehension.
Back in the days when I was a "Christian" it was only because I was born into that religion and I was told that all this "nonsense" somehow makes sense to God in ways that we simply can't understand and that we simply need to have faith that God has reasons for all this baloney.
What an asinine belief system.
It's a system that is so screwed up you need to believe on pure faith that this God can somehow justify all this utter stupidity because he supposedly knows something that's not revealed in the stories.
How utterly stupid is that?
I mean truly. How did this religion ever gain anymore respect than Greek Mythology? It's not the slightest bit more credible. On the contrary, in many ways it's even more absurd.
