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Wow... hard not to touch this one. I was raised a Christian and I resent that part of my life. I no longer believe in any god and I consider belief in god to be a neurological disorder. Of course, I'm never one to stand in front of a church yelling at people for not thinking like me, but I find that Christianity is the hardest to swallow of all religions.
The first of my many problems with the Christian faith is it's ignored history. Early Semitic tribes were a nomadic people that worshipped a thunder god. These tribes later evolved into modern Judaism and their god evolved with them. The belief in the all father of Jewish and Christian faith is the belief in the leftovers of a Tribal Thunder God.
Next, I don't like the giant contradiction in terms known as the Bible. I can rattle off example after example, but I'll just give one for right now. In Ecclesiastes 1:9 we're told that there's no new thing under the sun. My first thought in reading that was that there might have been belief in the Cyclic Time Theory in early Christianity... I was wrong. I read around it to find that basically, no matter what you think up or create... it's been done before. So this religion is maintaining a submissive mass of followers by telling them that they can't think of anything new cause their God already did all the thinking for them. Your job as a Christian is to be a passive observer, procreate, tithe and avoid sin.
Now we get to sin... I won't stay on this one long. Much like the marijuana laws in this country... sin is just a legislated morality. Someone doesn't like the thought of masturbation so they determine it to be wrong (see: sinful). The word "morality" must be Old High Latin for "Overblown Opinion."
Oh, by the way... I'm new here... hi everyone.
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Basically, if you don't agree with everything I say... you're stupid.
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