(December 13, 2012 at 8:59 am)frankiej Wrote:(December 13, 2012 at 8:50 am)Great Ape Wrote: It just goes to show how Christianity has been based off of violence. The cross is a symbol of violence for fucks sake.
Seems kinda "Satanic" to me. To eat the "body and blood" of Christ then kneel and pray in front of a man who has been impaled and nailed to two pieces of lumber? Praying for his resurrection? That's some weird shit if you ask me.
Yeah, it is just like any other creepy cult, but the Christians don't see it that way.
This is yet another example of WHY I remind people who single out Islam to understand that ALL the god/s of Abraham are rooted in divisive tribalism from a very brutal REAL society of antiquity where you protected your clan and loyalty to your king and superstition was a virtue and dissent was a death sentence.
All one has to do to KNOW that Christianity doesn't deserve a pass either is to read posts like this, and to know it's own bloodthirsty history in the Witch Hunts in Mass, the Inquisition, the Dark Ages. Not to mention merely reading the OT and it's vengeful god character who does not take kindly to dissent.
The only reason Christians in the west behave to a greater degree is that secularism has put a leash on it for couple of centuries.
The west has learned IN SPITE OF CHRISTIANITY, not because of it, that civility is better than demands of absolutes.
Imagine if this asshole was a majority of society, and not the minority. Well, even with our democracy we did have a majority of Christians who oppressed Native Americans, blacks and subjugated women.
So it is always important long term to NEVER let things like this slide.
