Christianity is easy (a step to extinction)

[Esquilax]

I don't even believe there are religious people. They're all faking it because if they truly believed in a god that can drown every living thing on the planet, kill all the firstborn of Egypt, send plagues and infestations, send his own son to be tortured and killed, well, these so-called believers would be so frightened they'd be praying fervently 24 hours a day.

Oh, I think they believe alright, I just think that they haven't thought too hard about the implications of the holy book they've hitched their wagon to, is all. See, if you believe christian theology then once you've embraced the savior the hard part is kind of over; what happens to you on earth doesn't matter, because eternity in heaven awaits, and being a christian guarantees you a place there... no more thought required.

Because they've reached the safe zone they don't have to consider the implications of their wrathful god, because it won't be happening to them, now will it? They don't have to behave as though hell is a real place, because they aren't going and those who do deserve it; that's why we don't see a constant, 100 percent push toward saving everyone on the planet, all the time from the evangelical side. Hell might be a real place to them, but it's not a real place; it's not something they'll ever have to consider, and so the true horror of the concept can safely be skipped over.

That's why christianity cultivates and prizes faith: it gets you into the safe zone by hook or by crook and then strives to keep you there by devaluing the idea of looking too deeply into this stuff, and telling you that intellectual curiosity about these ideas is only of any worth when you're coming to the faith, not when you're within it, or traveling away from it.