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This Is Why You Suck
#21
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Here's my own take on why I hate Christianity:
God basically creates the universe, and then creates man and a tree that they're not supposed to eat from, because he tells them that they will die that very day. Not having any concept of death, man decides to eat it. God then proceeds to cast them out of their home, and they live on for many centuries to come. He vows revenge on the serpent that apparently tricked them into eating the tree's fruit, but despite being all-powerful, doesn't really do much. Instead of starting back at the drawing board and creating Earth 2.0 so he could remake it without making the mistake of threatening people who don't understand the concept of death with death (or, better yet, not create a tree that will doom them,) God decides to stick with what he made. He then decides that all but eight of Earth's people (making the unlikely assumption that Noah and his sons weren't polygamous) need to die. They put all eight of those people and two of every species of animal on a boat that is way too big to be seaworthy, and way to small to fit them all. After a few centuries, he singles out an old shepherd and says that his descendants will live in the worst piece of real estate on the Arabian Peninsula for the rest of time. For the rest of time, his descendants, the Israelites, in addition to repeatedly losing that small piece of land, become the chew toy of the Western World. And then, two millennia later, God comes down to earth, and tells the Israelites that the messiah his prophets said would make Israel great again was actually a rabbi who traveled around Judea for a few years and didn't really do much. In addition, he basically changed the rules for not just the Jews, but everyone, and decided that everyone was now subject to a sadistic choice that would make even the cast of The Proposition cringe: spend eternity kissing God's ass or spend eternity in excruciating pain.

How do you not get behind that?
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#22
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Quote:God basically creates the universe, and then creates man and a tree that they're not supposed to eat from,


Most guys would just piss on the tree. Some things never change.
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#23
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In part, it is that Christianity, by default, encourages people to reject all other myths as some sort of evil and, in turn, people who are not Christians as sinners. It has such wide sweeping connotations of hate and judgment that I find it unbearable. While I try not to judge Christians on the basis of their Christianity, it oftentimes feels like not judging a skinhead for being a neo-Nazi.
(November 7, 2011 at 8:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:God basically creates the universe, and then creates man and a tree that they're not supposed to eat from,


Most guys would just piss on the tree. Some things never change.

The tree of knowledge thing really bugs me. According to Genesis, Adam and Eve were not self aware until they ate from the tree. Now, how the fuck are they supposed to follow a rule that would require them to have some basic knowledge of self preservation if they are not self aware? It is like a parent making a "special" child a pie and then beating the child for eating it.
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#24
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Again, don't over-think this shit, Shel. It can't stand up to close scrutiny.
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#25
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I can't help it. I look for plot holes in all novels. Wink
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#26
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because he gifted me a monkey and pronounced it sinful for me to spank it, the motherf****r lol Tongue

N.B the above statement is not a masturbatory reference. I'm just sick of god getting on my case when i kick my monkey butlers hairy ass because he won't make me a sandwich. dominion over all the animals my ass Tongue
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself." Peter O'Toole.
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#27
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(November 7, 2011 at 8:35 pm)Shell B Wrote: I can't help it. I look for plot holes in all novels. Wink

Why not look at Left Behind? Trying to find all the plot holes in that series should keep you occupied for a couple years. That or Battlefield Earth.

(November 7, 2011 at 8:15 pm)Shell B Wrote: While I try not to judge Christians on the basis of their Christianity, it oftentimes feels like not judging a skinhead for being a neo-Nazi.
Well, of course, not all skinheads are Neo-Nazis. There are even some skinheads that are anti-racist. And quite a few don't even bother with politics at all.
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#28
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Couldn't we all just go on and on (ad nauseum) about the hypocrisy, bigotry, hatred, class distinction, but possibly the fact that most of xtianity's adherents are no better than children...they don't think and so NEED an authority figure / scapegoat to justify their own inadequacies. I apply my distaste for adherence to any religion from the primitive aboriginal (cultures) to the latest woo of the new agers. One use of xtianity is to keep unskilled useless tribal members in some sort of "job" where they can climb the social ranks to a position of authority never learning anything of value to society along the way.... many are now politicians....

Fantasy is a wonderful tool for the very young BUT there comes a time when we ALL have to grow up and face reality.
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#29
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There's something else that bothers me, to the point that I feel Ayn Rand-ish hatred for it: this bullshit need to submit everything to god and allow no complete pride in yourself for anything you accomplish or create. You did such-and-such, but only with God's help. Someone gave you something out of the goodness of their heart, but only because God put it there.

There is no room for the celebration of humanity in a monotheistic worldview. It is demeaning, it's insulting, and worse, it puts your hope in phantasms instead of reality.

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#30
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Quote:Well, of course, not all skinheads are Neo-Nazis. There are even some skinheads that are anti-racist. And quite a few don't even bother with politics at all.

I'm using the term skinhead as in the skinhead movement, not as in people who are bald. That would be absurd.
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