Hello, i am a real Christian

[KichigaiNeko]

Hello all,

Some of the atheists here say that they are called by religious people "immoral", or even "sinful" and "evil".

Well, it is a fact. It does get rather redundant and you couldn't blame someone for standing up and say 'enough is enough'

But most atheists have the exact same kind of description of theists, considering them as stupid, uneducated, and feeling superior to everyone else. That is simply not accurate.

The above is also accurate, the difference is that atheists have evidence and theists do not

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Here is my set of beliefs. This set of beliefs is shared by the vast majority of Christians. You will see that we are not as crazy as you seem to believe:

I believe that the vast majority of the Old Testament is non-factual. I believe fully in evolution, even though i think God intended our evolution from apes, in such a way as to do it according to the rules of nature. I do believe for example in Moses and the flee from Egypt, as a historical event and not with the magic bread, crossing of the red sea or the cloud of ash that showed them the way. However Noah's Ark, Adam and Eve, the man who lived 3 days inside of a whale, are all stories that could be compared with mythologies like the Greek one.

But i am a real christian in that i believe, according to the tales of the Gospels, that Jesus is the Son of God, performed miracles, and was resurrected. He had a message of peace and understanding for all of mankind, and unlike the tales of the Old Testament, in the teachings of Jesus no one is beyond redemption.

I do not condemn non-believers or believers in other religions to an eternity in Hell, i just think they havnt had the luck i had, which is to see the beautiful message of the Christ.

I see atheists as people who are disillusioned view of religion and who do not know what or who to believe, so they just reject God altogether. I can understand easily how people can be disgusted by religion. Terrorism, discrimination, pedophilia. But all of those wrongs that religion has done...are not exclusive to religion, far from it. Most of the time, "religious" genocides have for goal to find a scapegoat to appease the population, nothing more.

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The thing is that YOUR belief system is of no interest. It is YOUR belief system. Sorry pumpkin but no one cares.

What's more religion has undeniably done some good in the world. It has united nations, given people a set of moral values that are good for the well-being of society. For hundreds of years most of the education and medicine was practiced by the Church. Finally most organizations that help the poor sick or homeless are originally Christian.

Unfortunately the above is inaccurate. Religion has done a great deal of harm within the world and is still inflicting itself on a very tired population. This is one of the issues that really gets an atheist's back up. The organisations that "help" have been doing it for 70+years and they are still no closer to bringing water to African villages nor freeing the world from starvation. But hey!! Aids has REALLY taken off in Africa thanks to xtianity!!

I am not here to convert you all, just to remind you that religion is not as harmful as you seem to think.

No religion is a crutch for the emotionally and psychically crippled...we know this as a fact...but like dandruff many have a religion and spend time and money fiddling with it.