First let me state that this is in no way an attack on any religion, people(s), or anything. I respect other peoples beliefs as just that, your own personal beliefs.

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This is an idea i wrote in a religious studies exam (a manitory subject at my old school).

The underlying flaw with Christianity is being hypocritical.

The bible preaches complete acceptance, this can be seen in Christian forgiveness of sins ect ect.

This acceptance comes with a price though.

Imagine that you are, muslim, jewish, pagan whatever. You for whatever reason wish to become a part of the Christian way of life, only to learn that you have to reject your beliefs and everything you've stood for.

Jesus says "i am the truth" (don't ask me the bible verse cuz i can't tell you) that automatically makes every other religion/belief a lie.

How can a religion that preaches unrelenting acceptance automatically reject every other religion/belief as wrong or a lie?

...I've tried to word this as best as i could, but i don't think it gets the message across...hopefully you get the gist of it...

Because Christianity is the wool pulled over our eyes, to blind us from the truth. The truth is, when we die, we stay put in the ground, we do not crawl up as a zombie and infest the world one day.

I believe the soul has a destination, but it is not the christian heaven, or hell (which is bullshit). I believe we either go back to the energy we came from.

The best example of this is in the Matrix: Reloaded, when Neo has a choice to rejoin the source (except in this case the source is not a computer code). I believe our soul 'reunites with the source', the source being a big mass of shapeless energy.

I think rejoining with the source would bring a feeling of endless joy, the best I would be able to describe it is that all your dreams come true right before your eyes, because in the confines of the Source, everything is possible. There is no evil and good, because evil and good are not appropriate measures inside of the Source.

Christianity is just a moneymaking scheme, and a control scheme. 'Good' Christians support censorship, beat their children, support homophobia, try to take down sites as wonderful as TOTSE, support religious intolerance, try to blindly oppose anything they do not agree with, and use the bible as their backing, and, worst of all, think that they are somehow above all non-christians while doing these acts.



-MD

Good christians (without the quotation marks) are people with some reference and a quest, like anyone on the path of better being. They are not intolerant, even though their religious fanatics preached intolerance to them: they know to walk one long step, one short step, bearing in mind that everything including absolute truth, is relative.

This is one good point of priesthood in any religion: by comparing the priest with what you would've awaited from him/her, you can better understand what is wrong in his ways and bypass him by developing yourself in that direction he was missing.

Then you can benefit from both his good points, and bad points such as intolerance, fear of adversity etc...

Actually it is through comparing your path with that of supposedly advanced adepts, that you best progress in truth.

[This message has been edited by UrbnTbone (edited 07-19-2003).]