Do you think that Christianity should be banned?

Question

I don't, but I'm wondering if anyone else does.

Answer 1

No religion should be banned. Just because you don't believe in someone elses faith doesn't mean it should be banned. Christians have right to practice their faith, athiests have the right not to believe in god, Catholics, etc.

I am not a religious person but I don't think we should ban any religion just because I don't agree with.

Answer 2

No religion should be banned. Each religion on this Earth has the right to be practiced peacefully by anyone who wishes to do so. For those that might say that Islam should be banned because of terrorists, Islam is a religion that teaches peace, not violence. Terrorists practice a radical form of Islam, therefore it isn' truly Islam. Why would anyone want to be Christianity? It is a peaceful religion that believes in a God and believes that everyone should be kind to one another with a Christ like love.

Answer 3

I think it should be not allowed such a powerfull position in life. No tax benefits,no place in politics, no place in our schools, no laws based on this primitive superstition(Which there are many its just that they are made to sound 'secular').
But no, it should not be BANNED. I dont want laws that enforce some groups personal views upon me, thats why christianity should be stripped of its position, but not banned. The churches property etc should also be handed over to the state. That would be great

Answer 4

No. Why would anyone want Christianity banned?

Answer 5

A lot of people think that. But banning anything does not work.
Separation of church and state.

True religion is not about safety, or the salvation of the individual from naked confrontation with suffering and pleasure and death and love.

True religion is about the difficult evolution and ultimate transcendence of the individual, and mankind, and Man.

Therefore, we must awaken from our self-protecting illusions of religious safety, and we must surrender to the Current of life in which the body and the mind are swimming forever.

There is no "Holy Substitute" for Man.

There is no "representative" sacrifice.

There is no true alternative to awakened consciousness and unqualified love in the case of each individual.

Every one of us is the necessary sacrifice of God.


CHAPTER SIX

The Secret Identity of the Holy Spirit of God
A Prophetic Criticism of Great Religions

The religious consciousness of Western Man is trapped within an archaic structure of myths, dogmas, and social conflicts that no longer serve the true religious and spiritual process of true Man. These myths are largely Christian, Judeo-Christian, and broadly Semitic in origin, and they are held in place by the large-scale cultural, political, and economic dominance of the ancient religions of the Middle East, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

The dominance of specifically Christian cults, myths, and dogmas is especially apparent in Europe and America. And if the dominance of Judaism and Islam is less apparent in Europe and America, the power of these ancient cults is certainly apparent throughout the Middle East (with clear, practical effect on the rest of the world).

Man himself cannot awaken to his evolutionary spiritual Destiny until the spell of mythological and self-possessed thinking is broken. And the future whole bodily culture of Man, in which East and West will realize a new cultural Synthesis, cannot take place until all the old religions are surrendered to the higher Principle or Truth that is the ultimate Master of religion.

We tend to think of "religion" as a benign influence on individual thought and behavior, and this is indeed the case when the higher aspects of religious consciousness begin to inform the thought and behavior of any individual. But religion is only rarely found to be an influence of such a kind. Very few individuals become truly creative personalities, mystics, saints, or even reliably good men or women as a result of religious associations.

Religion is, in general, an exoteric cultic phenomenon that controls the thought and behavior of individuals through external and psychologically manipulative techniques. And the principal religious phenomenon that is common in the world is not true or free religious consciousness and benign behavioral habits on the part of individuals. The principal phenomenon of religion is the institutional "Church", or all the central and centralizing institutions that contain and otherwise manipulate broad and massive segments of the human population.

The "Church" (or the primary institution within any religious tradition) is religion, insofar as religion basically affects the world at large. And large-scale institutional religion is not primarily a benign power in the world. We have only to look at the cultural and political conflicts in Europe and the Middle East to see how the immense institutions of ancient religion have now become, for the most part, contentious, absolutist, and the sources of petty social conflicts. And the problem is made extreme by the immensity of these institutions, each of which controls millions of people.

Answer 6

A Thousand Times NO! We need Christianity now more than ever

Answer 7

I don't believe so, but I also believe it will be.

America won't be the "land of the tolerant" forever. Nations have a way of falling and/or being conquered, and policies change. It is only a matter of time, until regular believers are hunted down as "potential terrorists" or "subversives".

Answer 8

If Christianity gets banned we will have anarchy and monkeys running around.

Answer 9

No religion should be banned. There is already too much religion in the law. Don't make it any worse.

Answer 10

For its own spiritual health, It should be banned from being promoted by our government.