(March 2, 2014 at 11:35 am)Chad32 Wrote: Just discovering that there are germs that cause disease, and making medicines to counteract this. The bible doesn't talk about germs. It talks about demons. So you have exorcisms and attempts at praying away sickness.
Religion is very harmful to society, and christians are sometimes told that this life isn't important. Be in the world, but not of it. They focus on the afterlife that they can't prove is real, instead of this life that they experience every day.
Yes there are good christians that help people, but that's either by ignoring parts of the bible that don't suit a modern world, or by taking passages like love thy neighbor and treat people equally that should be basic common sense that every culture can learn without a bible in their hands.
You have priests molesting children because their book tells them sex and masturbation is bad, and priests can't get married. If priests were allowed to marry, and masturbate, I guarantee you that we wouldn't have nearly as many stories about them molesting boys, and when it happens they would be excommunicated.
Honestly I find it hard to think of some part of christianity that's actually good for children or anyone else, aside from the most basic commandments for empathy or this afterlife that can't be proven to exist.
Just to follow up on the child molesting my problem isn't merely that Christianity has rules that might lead to it. The unforgivable crime of the catholic church was to cover it up. They knew about pedophile priests but instead of exposing them, casting them out or at the very least moving them into positions where they didn't have access to children they moved them from one parish to another ensuring a steady supply of unsuspecting victims.
That these victims should be taken from their own"flock" is simply beyond comprehension. This is what Christians do for the children, but it doesn't stop there.
The words of Jesus have been used for 2000 years to indoctrinate minds too young for critical thinking into a religion of double speak and total subjugation to an absolute dictator. Children have been terrified with stories of hell into pledging allegiance to their invisible father who loves them so much he will send them to hell should they fail to love Jesus. We have one of those poor unfortunates haunting the forums right now. This is what Christianity does for children, but it doesn't stop there.
Even today Christians are torturing children to death for being witches, that's today, in 2014. This is what Christianity does for children.
Sick children. Those suffering from mental illness or perhaps even epilepsy, what treatments does Christianity offer even today? Exorcism! In 2014! This is what Christianity does for children.
Then there is that wonderful doctrine of the catholic church that unbaptized babies that die go to purgatory till the end of time. What a wonderful way to torture berieved parents. Even the catholic church couldn't stomach that particular revulsion forever and had to rescind it. This is what Christianity does for children.
How many of these do we need exactly? I am reduced to typing this on a tablet and my finger is killing me.
When I get back to my PC I'll add some more.
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
