Many say the same tripe about Christianity itself, but do you sop it up like you do the tripe against the Catholic Church? DUH!

Parallels between Christianity and ancient Pagan religions

Mithras and Christianity

The essential absurdity of Christianity

Written by Jason Steiner

At the same time that Christians claim to worship God as an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent being, they make him out to be incompetent bumbler. Or worse. Simple forgiveness is beyond his capacities. God must "sacrifice himself to himself to change a rule he made himself!"

This is not only an absurdity, it is an essential absurdity. It is present in almost all forms of Christianity, and one can scarcely remove it and remain a Christian in anything but name. By definition, all Christians worship Christ - in some form - and most worship him as a saviour.

But what, exactly, is he saving us from? Though it varies from church to church, no matter what they call it, it's God himself. A hell created by God, a world fallen as a result of God's negligence, a separation from God imposed... by God.

Christianity certainly isn't the first religion to promote appeasement of its gods, and if it were merely another supernatural protection racket, it would be bad enough. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Christians elevate appeasement to the realm of "personal relationship", transforming their religion into a true monstrosity.

This is the type of "relationship" that abused wives have with their husbands, that brainwashed hostages have with their captors. It is known in clinical circles as Stockholm Syndrome. Should it come as any surprise that the cries of the church, "The Bride of Christ" sound much like the cries of an abused wife attempting to protect her husband?

"He must beat me."
"I deserve it."
"He has no choice."
"It's for my own good."
These excuses don't work for human abusers, and they work even less well for God. For if God is omnipotent, he must have a choice. And if we are flawed, we are only flawed because that is the way he made us. (No excuses that we ruined his perfect creation. A truly perfect creation does not self-destruct.)

If the Christian God does exist - and I see no reason to believe that he does - he's not worthy of the name.

And that is the ultimate absurdity of Christianity.

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Well....when you put it that way, it can make you question the whole "story" of Christianity. I don't question it, though, because I've experienced the Passion, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and I've met Jesus Face-to-face. Does that mean I understand all of it? No, not at all. I have many questions about why Jesus doesn't do something about the evil we see in this world, especially the slaughter of innocent babies. The only conclusion I've come to is that the devil was speaking the truth when he said this earth has been given to him (Luke 4:6). This must be why Jesus said for us to "Come out of her My people....." If we will raise our hearts above the things of this earth to the NEW Jerusalem, the Lord will hear and help us. I suppose some day we will more fully understand what is going on here on this earth between God and the devil, but no matter....NO doubt whatsoever in my heart about the Love of Christ for those of us who turn to Him. I can understand, though, why there are those who question Christianity itself.

God bless you

'Before offering Himself up as a spotless victim upon the altar, Christ prayed to His Father for all who believe in Him: "that they all may be one; even as thou, Father, art in Me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us, so that the world may believe that thou has sent Me".'
~ John 17:21