Thread: Christianity as a religion....

i agree with what most everyone else has stated christianity today is not what christ intended. i do believe that man has ruined his actual message. as far as god murdering women and children he had reasoning for this and he is not the only one amongst deities to do this. plus God is incomprehensible so who knows. im not christian but i do believe in a creator God if you will. the magi who came to see jesus (they have a long name that starts with a z and since i dont want to mispell their religion im just calling them the 3 magi) believed in one God which they called (in their language) the wise God. my only problem with any of the monotheistic religions period is their inability to be consistant with each other, it is illogical to believe that when jesus came there was all of a sudden a hell when jews never believed in such. this of course is only one of many.

From my personal experience, it's a load of BS. I used to be a hardcore christian, reading the bible every waking moment of my life, taking notes, even going out of my way to "bring Christ" to everyone's life (aka annoying the hell out of everyone, friend or stranger) and cross referencing just about every verse with the original manuscripts. But what got to me was that after I left church in order to get closer to God on my own (Which was after I got tired of the hypocrisies of the people I came to look up to, only to be spat on) their doctrine fell away from me, and I saw the bible in a new light. No longer did I try making excuses for his intolerance for the most mundane things, his brutal murder of children, families, and use of slaves (for labor AND sex) I began to see why christians around the world act the way they do. In essence, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. So what do I think? BS x1000000.

Christianity {contrasted by}... Islam...& Judaism.. {contrasted by} Occultism (certain aspects)...

same. same. same. and same.

they're just practiced differently - it's all similar lore... it all dates back to same roots.
a fat satanist might as well be laughing at a fat christian for being fat... doesn't change the fact they're both fat.

pot, meet kettle!

Originally Posted by captainrackham

Christianity {contrasted by}... Islam...& Judaism.. {contrasted by} Occultism (certain aspects)...

same. same. same. and same.

they're just practiced differently - it's all similar lore... it all dates back to same roots.
a fat satanist might as well be laughing at a fat christian for being fat... doesn't change the fact they're both fat.

pot, meet kettle!

now i like this, and i agree if you go back far enough all religions and spiritualities are preaching the same thing, spiritual accension. i also agree that the message was destroyed by politics.

yeah i like to point out that the romans organized christianity, before that they were just small seperate groups with many various beliefs (this is how jesus told his followers to be). The Romans.... the same people who killed the guy! yeah they definately knew his message.

Originally Posted by E-Zads

I never met Jesus personally nor did I live in Roman times. I try not debate things I cannot confirm with first hand experience.

this is true im only stating what i understand from historical documentation, i mean i was not alive in 1969 so i have no idea what vietnam nor the moon landing was like in reality the fact that there was an existing world before your own birth can even be debated since there is no first hand experience. that is why i said sadly much has been lost to the currents of time oh if only i were Dr. Who.

christianity as a religion has been lead into wrong path,deceiveing people is a job of a few who wish to gain their personal profit.

altough i am not a christian,i can tell you that god doesnt kill children or hurt people.
it is a natural way of life,we all exist constantly,we cannot die,and nothing bad can happen to us,we are here for our own reasons on this planet,living this life to progress

Originally Posted by MissRachel

Christianity is a disease, such as cancer, its spreading rampant ruin peoples life's all over the world. i will never acknowledge Christianity as a real religion either, a group of people that kills more people than Hitler and Stallin combined and gets away with it is not a religion, that is straight cancer. i also love how the bible is nothing but contradictions, love thy neighbor and such, but if they don't believe in the "christian god and Jesus" stone them until they are a big pile of dead **** half buried under perfectly good rocks. Christianity has got to end folks, any other religion is tolerable. and christian missionaries go way too far, telling people in Africa and Australia that their religion, that they've been practicing for thousands of years mind you, will only send them to hell, and these poor bastards have no clue what hell is. i say its total bullshit, and another thing, christian morals. **** christian morals. were in the land of the free but gays and lesbians cant get married because its "morally wrong" when priests are making lil joey alter boy play the holy skin flute, wheres the morals in that. honestly, Christianity pisses me off more than old folks in a huge ass 1980s Buick driving 20 under the speed limit.

You seem particularly angry, for those that have forsaken the true teachings, are those that have fallen and decided to use the teachings for their own personal gain.

Originally Posted by Iza

Religion, Religion. I know ones who think of worshipping Birds as a religion. what is religion other than the masses following anything that makes them feel good.

The opiate of the masses?

When broken down in sociological terms, a religion is a community of those of shared ideals (which are personified into worshipable idenitites) who come together to acknowledge the awareness of those ideals to themselves and their neighbors. Sometimes, passively and without force.

What tends to happen in many groups is that the devious or advantagous individual discovers that they can infiltrate this formula, become highly regarded in the community, and then make the priority of the wellbeing of the community far below the ideal itself, and them preach the ideal to the community to his own exploiting interpretation, to the point where the ideal and interpretation is now governing the entire existence of the community, and you end up with profound social control.

Here, you get more forceful conversion, and more dogmatic behavior which undermines the logic of individuals.

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IMHO,
The religion/community itself is not wrong, as much as it is wronged, and made TO wrong!

All second hand to the egoic nature of human beings.