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What do you object to about Christianity?

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Pacfanweb said:
First part, science hasn't disproven Creationism. Nobody knows for sure.

Second part, I hate that, too.

What I really hate is, people that are on a mission to make sure I have any form of religion, and people that are on a mission to make sure I know that they believe all religion is a joke/their atheist/whatever.

Screw 'em all. Believe what you want, and leave me alone.
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I'm on the either side, I think anyone stupid enough to fall into something to jeapordize my species shouldn't be a part of it. Let them rot in their religious bullshit.
 
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Starting a religion thread already?

Geez, we best keep an eye on this one.
 
mmntech said:
It's not so much I object to religion, just religious zeal. It's one thing to believe something. It's entirely different to force it on others. I became an atheist after 9/11 because I saw devout believes slaughtering innocent people in the name of God.

As for Christians, they're mostly harmless. What bothers me is their clerics, who tend to abuse the trust their flock puts in them. The Catholic Church especially. A lot of Christians in my experiences are hypocrites.
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Okay, so you object to religious zealousness (I assume all forms), mass murderers, some clerics, and hypocrites but what specific tenets of Christianity do you object to?
 
PhineasJWhoopee said:
Your comment is directed towards your perception of Christians and not to the question I asked.
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It's true that it's usually the Christian rather than Christianity that I don't like.

I think Christianity itself promotes many good things, but the condemnation of non-believers regardless of circumstances doesn't sit right with me.
 
Several billion Buddhists will suffer eternal torment in the fires of Hell, because they neglected to practice ritual cannibalism. Including the children. It's God's will!

At least with the Flying Spaghetti Monster I only need to have a plate of pasta now and again to keep from being slapped silly by His Noodly Appendage once I shuffle off this mortal coil.
 
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lsv said:
I'm on the either side, I think anyone stupid enough to fall into something to jeapordize my species shouldn't be a part of it. Let them rot in their religious bullshit.
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Well, people have been believing in religion since almost the beginning. And we have thrived during that time.

The vast majority of our laws in the US were originally established along the lines of Christianity.
The Ten Commandments are well-represented in our laws.
Don't lie. Don't steal. Don't commit adultery. Don't kill.
Keep the Sabbath day holy....typical work week includes which day? Sunday. But people are allowed to work if they want.

It's well-documented (and really not even debatable, despite the 'forefather revisionists') that the USA was basically established as a free Christian nation that allows people to believe what they want and practice any form or religion they want, as long as it doesn't break laws or affect others.

And, not by accident, the USA is the most successful nation in the history of the Earth.

I'm not a religious person at all, but I'm not blind to Christianity's part in making this nation what it is, either.
 
Self-righteousness of it's members (goes for all religions).
Tax-free status of the church.
Making the rape of little boys standard practice amongst priests.
Believing in and indoctrinating through fairy tales.
 
PhineasJWhoopee said:
This is a legitimate (but I believe incorrect) objection to Christianity. Are there others?
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It's my only objection that is specific to Christianity, but that's ultimately irrelevant because my greater objection is to religion in general, of which Christianty is just one example.
 
Wow, what Catholic school did you go to? I certainly don't recall that being in the math/science classes when I went to one. Even now that I teach in one, I can say that this isn't how we run science classes at my school.
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PhoKingGuy said:
I was forced into Catholic school from grades 4-7, worst years of my life and affirmed my hatred for all forms of organized religion(extortion).

The best part was we had these bullshit science textbooks that started out with the basis of why religion was more trustworthy than science and how the world was 7000something years old and man lived with dinosaurs because it said so in the bible. When it came to the tests for the book I never wrote down the religious explanations for questions and would get them wrong, I eventually got sent to the principal where I told her the book was full of shit and I had every right to put down what I believed.

They didn't bother me with that from then on 🙂

I think that whole experience was just an exercise for me on how to troll people. I finally convinced my parents to let me go to public school from 8th grade onwards (which I loved and excelled academically)
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xanis said:
Pretty much the "believe in what we say or you're going to burn in hell" philosophy, or even the "God loves everyone... except for .
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Okay, we covered that a tenet of Christianity is that rejection of God results in eternal damination. That's a legitmate objection to Christianity.

I don't get the second part. Hatred of "gays, believers in other religions, etcetera" philosophy" isn't a tenet of Christianity.
 
PhineasJWhoopee said:
How does Christianity jeapordize your species?
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Anyone who thinks some magical higher power made all of this without proof is a waste of space. Hopefully some period of my lifetime will have an end to any sort of religious nonsense.

This goes for scientists that shun new theories too. A number of discoveries have been made by scientists with balls large enough to try something out without fear of being criticized.

In fact. Fuck everyone.
 
dighn said:
It's my only objection that is specific to Christianity, but that's ultimately irrelevant because my greater objection is to religion in general, of which Christianty is just one example.
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Have you ever considered that you may throwing out the baby with the bath water?
 
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