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Sunday, October 12, 2008
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The End of Christianity
Category: Religion and Philosophy
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Questions
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Why do you believe in God?
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Were all of the gods worshiped before and after yours, fakes?
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Do you admit that the belief that a God truly exists, is an improbable assumption?
The End of Christianity
Is there a reason to believe in God? The majority of the world believes that a supernatural god exists. They do so for various reasons: Because they know that everyone they love will die including themselves; they were conditioned from childhood to do so; they do not know how everything came to be and they want answers; they want to be something more than a mammal that will live for 75 years...the list goes on.
People also believe because of their personal experience with God. They talk to God, and they find guidance through him and his teachings. Looking at such things from a rational perspective, one can see that it is much more likely that the people are talking to themselves, and that the human brain is perfectly capable of creating sensations that seem supernatural. The only way prayer has been proven to work is in some placebo effect studies, which simply means the brain is strong enough to release endorphins that relieve pain. It is much more probable that ones personal experience with God is not supernatural considering the supernatural does not exist as we know it. "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." -Richard Dawkins.
The God who Wasn't There
Regardless of the fact that God does not exist in scientific terms, many have spent their lives as devout Christians; they ask God to spare one second to talk to them or to give them a small sign, but many (including myself) are ignored, even when we pray the "right" way and for the "right" reasons God epitomizes the deadbeat father. When we have dozens of people praying for us, nothing happens. While God is silent to our prayers, there are children slowly dying of starvation every 5 seconds, there are natural disasters claiming the lives of millions, and there are viruses using innocent hosts in the most detestable ways.
Christianity, the Unoriginal Myth
All throughout history humankind has depended on gods to explain how things work. Before and after Christianity, humans have invented many gods. To say all of the gods before and after the Christian god are fakes is to shoot one's self in the conceptual foot. Many of the main concepts of Christianity are unoriginal and can be found in texts older than the Bible. The concept of souls, hell, sin, everlasting life, rules to enter eternity, the creator of the universe, the object of sacrifice, redemption, etc can be found in one book that predates the Bible: it is the Bhagavad-Gita, mostly based on the teachings of Krishna. This is just one archaic text out of many that share similarities with the bible, though they were written before it.
Not only is the Bible unoriginal, but it is full of inaccuracies and contradictions. Read individual stories from the Gospels; many of the stories do not match up, i.e. the crucifixion and resurrection. Not only do they not match up, but every story about Jesus "was written 35 to 65 years after Jesus' death, not by people who were eyewitnesses, but by people living later." -Bart Ehrman leading New Testament scholar. There were other faith healers at the time of Jesus whose followers claimed to have seen them after they died. Were they all correct? "Other faith healers in the time of Jesus -the tradition of miracles done by Apollonius of Tyana, Hanina ben Dosa, Honi the Circle-Drawer, and Vespasian." -Bart Ehrman
We Will Live Forever
Pre-life and post-life are logically identical. In other words, being dead is exactly the same as not being born yet. This notion might make life seem meaningless for some, but to accept this reality as we know it is, in a sense, to live life like no religious person could. An atheist knows that this life is their only shot, but a religious person thinks this life is a stepping stone for something much greater. Although we might live for eternity in regards to the first law of thermodynamics, (energy cannot be created or destroyed), and the law of conservation of mass, we are most likely just a blip of consciousness between the cradle and the casket. "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -Carl Sagan
The Atheist Jihad
Why do we fight religion? Brainwashing children to believe that myths are facts and that science is a joke is a start. Also, religion supports, enables, and justifies some of the most absurd acts on this planet. What has our past and present taught us? What have we seen? Jihadists, crusaders, inquisitors, martyrs, and many subsets that mimic these despicable themes. Today we have people flying planes into buildings and blowing themselves up so they can enter an eternal paradise. We have people who claim to be worshipping the only true god and everyone else on this planet (4 out of the 6 billion people alive) are going to burn for eternity. These people call themselves Christians.
What about religious tolerance and all the good-hearted moderates? "Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism and religious violence can never be adequately opposed...We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it" -Sam Harris
Religion is often the catalyst for unreasonable atrocities. Whether it is the main cause or merely an excuse to help justify the acts, religion is responsible. "I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." -Adolf Hitler
Today the world fears a self fulfilled prophecy from the book of Revelations. We have thousands of Jihadists chanting "death to America!" these confused apes would see a silver lining in a skyline-altering mushroom cloud. They say it is their religious duty to acquire nuclear arms. They say, "I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God." -Osama Bin Laden
The Repulsion of Christianity
As we saw in The End of Christianity, the Bible is repulsive. The book is full of unjust torment and murder of men, woman, and children. It is unjustifiable to make an innocent child die a painful death. Many Christians have not read the Old Testament word for word, and many churches across America do not read certain passages. I think anyone with a rational perspective on life would agree with me that the Old Testament and some of the New Testament stains the entire concept of Christianity. God's horrific laws and demands constantly repeated in the Old Testament implode on themselves. There is no possible way to scratch the surface of justification for the acts of God. He is the biggest monster ever created by humankind, and biblical concepts are drenched in blood and swarm with deluded concepts of fear tactics and antidotes for death anxiety.
Why support these horrific stories by calling yourself a Christian? Why believe that the majority of the world will burn for eternity? "The god of traditional Judaism and Christianity and Islam seems to me a terrible character. He's a god who's obsessed to the degree that people worship him, and anxious to punish with the most awful torments those who don't worship him in the right way. I realize that many people don't believe in that anymore but that is the traditional God and he's a terrible character. I don't like him."-Nobel prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg
Deuteronomy 2:31-35
The LORD said to me, "See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land."
When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. 34 At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors. But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves
Deuteronomy 4:23-24
Be careful not to forget the covenant of the LORD your God that he made with you; do not make for yourselves an idol in the form of anything the LORD your God has forbidden. For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 5:7
I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me
Deuteronomy 12:2-3
Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains and on the hills and under every spreading tree where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.
Deuteronomy 13:6-11
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. 9 You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
Deuteronomy 20:10-15
When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
Deuteronomy 25:11
If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, 12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
Revelation 9:3-6
And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
[15] And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
Numbers 31:1-54
Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive.
When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Deuteronomy 21:18
If you have a "stubborn and rebellious son, then you and the other men in your neighborhood shall stone him with stones that he die.
Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Leviticus 26:21:29
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate. Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
Exodus 11:5
And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
Leviticus 10:1-3
Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command. 2 So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
2 Kings 2:23
From there Elisha went up to Bethel.
As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said.
"Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
Job 1:18
(God let Satan kill jobs children) While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house
. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"
Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is blighted, their root is withered, they yield no fruit.
Even if they bear children, I will slay their cherished offspring.
Isaiah14:21
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
Lamentations 4:9:11
Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked with hunger, they waste away for lack of food from the field.
With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed. The LORD has given full vent to his wrath; he has poured out his fierce anger. He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed her foundations.
Ezekiel 5:8-10
The LORD says: I myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will inflict punishment on you in the sight of the nations. Because of all your detestable idols, I will do to you what I have never done before and will never do again. Therefore in your midst fathers will eat their children, and children will eat their fathers.
"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."
-Albert Einstein
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