(December 30, 2014 at 2:27 pm)Strider Wrote: The inherent shame and guilt that must come with Christianity if one is to follow it faithfully is poisonous, absolutely poisonous. Even if I were not an atheist, this sole concept of the self would be enough for me to abandon Christianity as the hateful, harmful, and revolting dogma that it is.
It comes with all the Abrahamic religions. They all basically say, you're a sinning piece of shit and are deserving eternal punishment if you don't follow the particular book to the letter.
And they all attack sexuality the most. That's a sure way to create mental wrecks that are easily manipulated as Freud already observed.