Christianity and its effect on self-worth

[Chad32]

All Christianity really teaches you is how you are a worthless person and a sinner piece of trash. You don't have to be if you kiss gods ass and repent. The whole idea of sin is man made. And that no one does good because they are not doing it for god is also stupid. So the people who do good and are not doing it for god are bad, but people who only do good because of god are "good" because god is stamped on it. There is some real moral issues with that.

That's the craziest thing you've said yet, why would man make up something like sin, it doesn't make sense that people would condemn their own selves.

Really? You can't think of a reason for some guy to say that his community is living wrong, and his god is telling him to tell them that if they follow him, they'll be saved? double points if he already has enough power to inflict punishment for their disbelief? Sure, they can say he's as much a sinner as they are, but he can agree with them and still get them to do what he wants, because he has a personal line to a god. A vengeful god that will doom their souls if they don't listen to his "prophet". Since most people are superstitious, this is an easy way to control the masses. Especially when they're mostly illiterate, and need the few literate people to tell them what's in the holy book.

Does it really sound so crazy now? If so, drink less koolaid. Even if you had the original writings of the first christians and jews, the best you would have is the writings of people who claimed divine inspiration, and ordered everyone else to do as they say because they claim to be following a god they can't prove exists.