WHY BELIEVE IN CHRISTIANITY
Dear Believer,
— You asked me to consider
Christianity as the answer for my life. I have done that. I consider
it untrue, repugnant, and harmful.
You expect me to believe
Jesus was born of a virgin impregnated by a ghost? Do you believe all
the crazy tales of ancient religions? Julius Caesar was reportedly
born of a virgin; Roman historian Seutonius said Augustus bodily rose
to heaven when he died; and Buddha was supposedly born speaking. You
don’t believe all that, do you? Why do you expect me to swallow the
fables of Christianity?
I find it incredible that you ask me
to believe that the earth was created in six literal days; women come
from a man’s rib; a snake, a donkey, and a burning bush spoke human
language; the entire world was flooded, covering the mountains to
drown evil; all animal species, millions of them, rode on one boat;
language variations stem from the tower of Babel; Moses had a magic
wand; the Nile turned to blood; a stick turned into a snake; witches,
wizards, and sorcerers really exist; food rained from the sky for 40
years; people were cured by the sight of a brass serpent; the sun
stood still to help Joshua win a battle, and it went backward for
King Hezekiah; men survived unaided in a fiery furnace; a detached
hand floated in the air and wrote on a wall; men followed a star
which directed them to a particular house; Jesus walked on water
unaided; fish and bread magically multiplied to feed the hungry;
water instantly turned into wine; mental illness is caused by demons;
a “devil” with wings exists who causes evil; people were healed
by stepping into a pool agitated by angels; disembodied voiced spoke
from the sky; Jesus vanished and later materialized from thin air;
people were healed by Peter’s shadow; angels broke people out of
jail; a fiery lake of eternal torment awaits unbelievers under the
earth ... while there is life-after-death in a city which is 1,500
miles cubed, with mansions and food, for Christians only.
If
you believe these stories, then you are the one with the problem, not
me. These myths violate natural law, contradict science, and fail to
correspond with reality or logic. If you can’t see that, then you
can’t separate truth from fantasy. It doesn’t matter how many
people accept delusions inflicted by “holy” men; a widely held
lie is still a lie. If you are so gullible, then you are like the
child who believes the older brother who says there is a monster in
the hallway. But there is nothing to be afraid of; go turn on the
light and look for yourself.
If Christianity were simply
untrue I would not be too concerned. Santa is untrue, but it is a
harmless myth which people outgrow. But Christianity, besides being
false, is also abhorrent. It amazes me that you claim to love the god
of the bible, a hateful, arrogant, sexist, cruel being who can’t
tolerate criticism. I would not want to live in the same neighborhood
with such a creature!
The biblical god is a macho male
warrior. Though he said “Thou shalt not kill,” he ordered death
for all opposition, wholesale drowning and mass exterminations;
punishes offspring to the fourth generation (Ex. 20:5); ordered
pregnant women and children to be ripped up (Hos. 13:16); demands
animal and human blood to appease his angry vanity; is partial to one
race of people; judges women to be inferior to men; is a sadist who
created a hell to torture unbelievers; created evil (Is. 45:7);
discriminated against the handicapped (Lev. 21:18-23); ordered
virgins to be kept as spoils of war (Num. 31:15-18, Deut. 21:11-14);
spread dung on people’s faces (Mal. 2:3); sent bears to devour 42
children who teased a prophet (II Kings 2:23-24); punishes people
with snakes, dogs, dragons, drunkenness, swords, arrows, axes, fire,
famine, and infanticide; and said fathers should eat their sons (Ez.
5:10). Is that nice? Would you want to live next door to such a
person?
And Jesus is a chip off the old block. He said, “I
and my father are one,” and he upheld “every jot and tittle” of
the Old Testament law. Mt. 5:18 He preached the same old judgment:
vengeance and death, wrath and distress, hell and torture for all
nonconformists. He believed in demons, angels and spirits. He never
denounced the subjugation of slaves or women. Women were excluded as
disciples and as guests at his heavenly table. Except for hell he
introduced nothing new to ethics or philosophy. He was disrespectful
of his mother and brothers; he said we should hate our parents and
desert our families. Mt. 10:35-36, Lk. 14:26 (So much for “Christian
family life.”) He denounced anger, but was often angry himself. Mt.
5:22, Mk. 3:5 He called people “fools” (Mt. 23:17,19),
“serpents,” and “white sepulchers,” though he warned that
such language puts you in danger of hellfire. Mt. 5:22 He said “Think
not that I am come to send peace on earth. I came not to send peace,
but a sword." Mt. 10:34 (So much for “Peace on Earth.”) He
irrationally cursed and withered a fig tree for being barren out of
season. Mt. 21:19 He mandated burning unbelievers. Jn. 15:6 (The
Church has complied with relish.) He stole a horse. Lk. 19:30-33 He
told people to cut off hands, feet, eyes and sexual organs. Mt.
5:29-30, 19:12 You want me to accept Jesus, but I think I’ll pick
my own friend, thank you.
One of Jesus’s many contradictions
was saying good works should be seen, and not seen. Mt. 5:16, 6:1-4
One of his mistakes was saying that the mustard plant has the
smallest seed. Mt. 13:31-32 The writers of Matthew and Luke could not
even get his genealogy straight, contradicting the Old Testament, and
giving Jesus two discrepant lines through Joseph, his non-father!
I
also find Christianity to be morally repugnant. The concepts of
original sin, depravity, substitutionary forgiveness, intolerance,
eternal punishment, and humble worship are all beneath the dignity of
intelligent human beings and conflict with the values of kindness and
reason. They are barbaric ideas for primitive cultures cowering in
fear and ignorance.
Finally, Christianity is harmful. More
people have been killed in the name of a god than for any other
reason. The Church has a shameful, bloody history of Crusades,
Inquisitions, witch-burnings, heresy trials, American colonial
intolerance, disrespect of indigenous traditions (such as American
Indians), support of slavery, and oppression of women. Modern
“fruits” of religion include the Jonestown massacre, the callous
fraud of “faith healers,” recent wars and ethnic cleansing, and
fighting in Northern Ireland. Religion also poses a danger to mental
health, damaging self-respect, personal responsibility, and clarity
of thought.
Do you see why I do not respect the biblical
message? It is an insulting bag of nonsense. You have every right to
torment yourself with such insanity — but leave me out of it. I
have better things to do with my life.
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