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Jaron · 07-22-2003, 03:34 PM

I hate Christianity.

No... wait. I really, really, really hate Christianity. In fact, not only do I hate Christianity but I also hate Judiasm and Orthodox Grecian Christianity and Islam and Roman Catholicism and Protestantism and whatever the fuck Jehovah's Witnesses believe in and Mormonism and all other related forms of any religion even loosely based off of the "original" Hebraic form of religion. I really, really, really, really, REALLY hate them. All of them. This is beyond dislike, or even petty hatred. This is a pathological, methodological hatred of all things Christian.

Don't get me wrong. Jesus was a cool dude. He was completely full on, he was all about freedom and he actually DID something about it. This one time, for example, in one of the most overkilled, overtold stories in the New Testament (which is what Jesus was actually alive for, or at least parts of it), Jesus was exceedingly more cool than just about anyone else you will have heard of. He waltzes into the temple in Jerusalem, and sees a bunch of wankers selling stuff, so he goes ballistic and tears the place up 'cause he's PISSED at what they're using the temple for. Now that is some pretty crazy stuff.

It's not that I hate Christians, themselves. I don't. I really don't. Hell, I don't even hate Yahweh, Jehova, or whatever the fuck you want to call him. Far be it from me to pass judgement on their great judge after all. (Besides, I don't particularly put all that much intrinsic value in the existance of an almighty All Father Creator or any of that other bullshit.) Far be it from me to judge any of them. In fact, a large number of my friends are Christians, or at least profess to be. Those are some pretty damned cool people.

Here's what I mean: all organized religion, at some point or another, becomes an institution as a matter of course. The very fact that it's an organized group of individuals introduces beurocracy, heirarchy, segregation, segmentation, and all of the other shittyass things that come from institutionalized religion.

The bases for Christianity, I sympathize with. Hell, I even agree with alot of it. The Jews or Hebrews or whatever you want to call them, they were under alot of social and economic pressure. The Romans came in and did what they did, so Jesus popped out of his mother's bloody cunt after popping her cherry for the first time (head first, of course) and changed a few things. He told them about freedom, pacifism, personal beliefs... everything he said, or at least most of what he said, was pretty damned cool.

On the other hand, we don't technically know what he said. All of the gospels were written in retrospect, and hindsight is no clearer than foresight. Peoples' memories generally suck, and twist facts quite frequently. Everything past the gospels, the book of Matthew through to the book of John, should be cut out of the Christian Bible and burned. Everyone who takes those as canonized scripture should be taken to the village square, tied to a stake, and burned as a witch. They really, really should.

My reasoning for this is simple. Everything that Jesus didn't say shouldn't be taken as if Jesus said it. Seriously, most Christians these days put the opinions of the Apostles above what Jesus himself said. As I said before, Jesus was a bloody cool dude. Fully righteous (in the colloquial sense of the word, not the actual one) and all that shit. The apostles were dumbasses. None of them were "God's Holy Son" - how the fuck did they know what they were talking about?

Visions. Of course. I forgot about the visions. Did I tell you about this one time, my friend thought he was talking to his brother when he was tripping on acid, in my bedroom? It was a totally tripped out experience. He was full on hallucinating, and talking to his brother, and exchanging high fives, and doing all sorts of crazy shit that was only crazy because his brother wasn't actually there. Now, what were we saying about visions?

I'm sure you get the point of that. It's all fucking subjective, except for the parts which are supposed to be subjective. It's all a dictatorship, with the pastors and priests and church elders and self-appointed prophets and the evangelists and everyone else telling you that if you don't follow their mighty words, you will burn in the fires of hell. Eh... it's more like this. THOU SHOULDST FOLLOW MINE HOLY WORDS, ELSE YE BURN IN THE ETERNAL LAKES OF FIRE!! Riiight.

Gneh. I hate Christianity.

Sorry. This was bothering me.

07-22-2003, 03:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jaron Crazy Location: Hong Kong.	Rant, Take One I hate Christianity. No... wait. I really, really, really hate Christianity. In fact, not only do I hate Christianity but I also hate Judiasm and Orthodox Grecian Christianity and Islam and Roman Catholicism and Protestantism and whatever the fuck Jehovah's Witnesses believe in and Mormonism and all other related forms of any religion even loosely based off of the "original" Hebraic form of religion. I really, really, really, really, REALLY hate them. All of them. This is beyond dislike, or even petty hatred. This is a pathological, methodological hatred of all things Christian. Don't get me wrong. Jesus was a cool dude. He was completely full on, he was all about freedom and he actually DID something about it. This one time, for example, in one of the most overkilled, overtold stories in the New Testament (which is what Jesus was actually alive for, or at least parts of it), Jesus was exceedingly more cool than just about anyone else you will have heard of. He waltzes into the temple in Jerusalem, and sees a bunch of wankers selling stuff, so he goes ballistic and tears the place up 'cause he's PISSED at what they're using the temple for. Now that is some pretty crazy stuff. It's not that I hate Christians, themselves. I don't. I really don't. Hell, I don't even hate Yahweh, Jehova, or whatever the fuck you want to call him. Far be it from me to pass judgement on their great judge after all. (Besides, I don't particularly put all that much intrinsic value in the existance of an almighty All Father Creator or any of that other bullshit.) Far be it from me to judge any of them. In fact, a large number of my friends are Christians, or at least profess to be. Those are some pretty damned cool people. Here's what I mean: all organized religion, at some point or another, becomes an institution as a matter of course. The very fact that it's an organized group of individuals introduces beurocracy, heirarchy, segregation, segmentation, and all of the other shittyass things that come from institutionalized religion. The bases for Christianity, I sympathize with. Hell, I even agree with alot of it. The Jews or Hebrews or whatever you want to call them, they were under alot of social and economic pressure. The Romans came in and did what they did, so Jesus popped out of his mother's bloody cunt after popping her cherry for the first time (head first, of course) and changed a few things. He told them about freedom, pacifism, personal beliefs... everything he said, or at least most of what he said, was pretty damned cool. On the other hand, we don't technically know what he said. All of the gospels were written in retrospect, and hindsight is no clearer than foresight. Peoples' memories generally suck, and twist facts quite frequently. Everything past the gospels, the book of Matthew through to the book of John, should be cut out of the Christian Bible and burned. Everyone who takes those as canonized scripture should be taken to the village square, tied to a stake, and burned as a witch. They really, really should. My reasoning for this is simple. Everything that Jesus didn't say shouldn't be taken as if Jesus said it. Seriously, most Christians these days put the opinions of the Apostles above what Jesus himself said. As I said before, Jesus was a bloody cool dude. Fully righteous (in the colloquial sense of the word, not the actual one) and all that shit. The apostles were dumbasses. None of them were "God's Holy Son" - how the fuck did they know what they were talking about? Visions. Of course. I forgot about the visions. Did I tell you about this one time, my friend thought he was talking to his brother when he was tripping on acid, in my bedroom? It was a totally tripped out experience. He was full on hallucinating, and talking to his brother, and exchanging high fives, and doing all sorts of crazy shit that was only crazy because his brother wasn't actually there. Now, what were we saying about visions? I'm sure you get the point of that. It's all fucking subjective, except for the parts which are supposed to be subjective. It's all a dictatorship, with the pastors and priests and church elders and self-appointed prophets and the evangelists and everyone else telling you that if you don't follow their mighty words, you will burn in the fires of hell. Eh... it's more like this. THOU SHOULDST FOLLOW MINE HOLY WORDS, ELSE YE BURN IN THE ETERNAL LAKES OF FIRE!! Riiight. Gneh. I hate Christianity. Sorry. This was bothering me.