Christianity is the most advanced form of brainwashing the human civilization has ever seen. Do you agree?

Question

It is obvious that the bible was written by several philosophers. Every single aspect of the bible was written in a way to where it can not be argued by logic. Why do you think so many governments inter-twine christianity and government. Because if the people will not question their religon, they will not question the government. This is the reason why christians are frightning. They never question authority. The blind are lead by a group of people who thought the world was flat, women didnt have souls, kings were gods, educated women were witches, and they also claimed that god spoke crystal clear to them, enough to pull out a note pad and write everything word for word? Children are force fed religon before they even know what their body parts are for. Christmas is even a made up holiday that is VERY accepted by christians because it forces children to believe unrealistic stories to prepare them to believe the unrealistic stories of the bible.

Answer 1

No, I do not agree.

Answer 2

The Holy Bible Douay-Rheims Version

With Challoner Revisions 1749-52
1899 Edition of the John Murphy Company

IMPRIMATUR:
James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899.

Pope Damasus assembled the first list of books of the Bible at the Roman Council in 382 A.D. He commissioned St. Jerome to translate the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin, which became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible and was declared by the Church to be the only authentic and official version, in 1546.

The DR New Testament was first published by the English College at Rheims in 1582 A.D. The DR Old Testament was first published by the English College at Douay in 1609 A.D. The first King James Version was not published until 1611. This online DRV contains all 73 books, including the seven Deutero-Canonical books (erroneously called Apocrypha by Protestants). These seven books were included in the 1611 KJV, but not in later KJV Bibles.

The whole Douay-Rheims Bible was revised and diligently compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner in 1749-1752 A.D. The notes included in the text were written by Dr. Challoner.

The DR Bible was photographically reproduced from the 1899 edition of the John Murphy Company, Baltimore, Maryland, by Tan Books in 1971. Eventually, this edition was optically scanned to produce a large text file which this publisher used for creating this website, with the aid of text-processing software.

One important goal of this project was to preserve the original text "as is", without making any changes in the wording, because the original text had the Imprimatur of James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dated Sept 1st 1899.

The text file was checked quite thoroughly by software written by the publisher for punctuation errors and verses out of order. The index was humanly checked for misspelled words and the corrections were made to the text. However, some spelling errors may still be present in the text. Many verses were out of order in the original file. These have been corrected.

Every effort was made to ensure that this online version is an exact match to the original printed version. No words were added or ommitted from the text, except for correcting errors caused by the scanning process. No words were rearranged. No verse numbers were changed, except in the case of Psalm 9.

Psalm 9 originally contained 21 verses and there were 2 versions of Psalm 10, numbering 1-18 and 1-8. This obviously caused a conflict, so it was decided to make the first Psalm 10 as the last part of Psalm 9 and renumber the verses 22-39. This retains the same numbering as all the Douay Rheims. Note, in the Protestant Bibles the numbering of Psalms 10 through 146 differs by one.

Answer 3

I think the military does more of brainwashing. Their training is designed for you to loose your identity and become a part of the team

By the way X'mas is not a Christian Holiday. Pagans celebrated X'mas. No brainwashing here buddy just information anyone can look up.

M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia says: “The observance of Christmas is not of divine appointment, nor is it of N[ew] T[estament] origin. The day of Christ’s birth cannot be ascertained from the N[ew] T[estament], or, indeed, from any other source.”—(New York, 1871), Vol. II, p. 276.

The Encyclopedia Americana informs us: “The reason for establishing December 25 as Christmas is somewhat obscure, but it is usually held that the day was chosen to correspond to pagan festivals that took place around the time of the winter solstice, when the days begin to lengthen, to celebrate the ‘rebirth of the sun.’ . . . The Roman Saturnalia (a festival dedicated to Saturn, the god of agriculture, and to the renewed power of the sun), also took place at this time, and some Christmas customs are thought to be rooted in this ancient pagan celebration.”—(1977), Vol. 6, p. 666.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia acknowledges: “The date of Christ’s birth is not known. The Gospels indicate neither the day nor the month . . . According to the hypothesis suggested by H. Usener . . . and accepted by most scholars today, the birth of Christ was assigned the date of the winter solstice (December 25 in the Julian calendar, January 6 in the Egyptian), because on this day, as the sun began its return to northern skies, the pagan devotees of Mithra celebrated the dies natalis Solis Invicti (birthday of the invincible sun). On Dec. 25, 274, Aurelian had proclaimed the sun-god principal patron of the empire and dedicated a temple to him in the Campus Martius. Christmas originated at a time when the cult of the sun was particularly strong at Rome.”—(1967), Vol. III, p. 656.

Answer 4

No, I do not believe I am brainwashed. Christians question the government all the time, yes we submit to their authority but we don't necessarily agree with it. As for being led by people who thought the world was flat, that was the general concencus of the entire population at one time, not just Christians. Nowhere in the bible are women put down, in fact many women are spoken of quite highly in the bible, such as Mary, Ruth, Hannah, and Deborah. As well, kings are never put on the same level as God. The bible clearly states that only God is God. I think maybe you better rethink your argument.

Answer 5

I would be more inclined to call it the only form of "soul-washing".

It was not necessarily written by philosophers. On human standards, it was actually written by fishermen, prisoners, common people, shepherds, and more. Ultimately though, it was written by God.

2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV)
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

And have you not ever heard of separation of church and state?

Also, how do Christian morals threaten your well-being? They might threaten your lifestyle.

If you were born in that time period, you probably would have believed the earth is flat! That was the "common knowledge" of that day; advanced science with advanced tools. As for soul-less women, kings being gods(?), and educated woman being accused of witchcraft, that could very well be a prime example of convictions being misinterpreted as doctrine, or even as Christianity simply being misused as a widespread appeal to the general public in order for a few power-holders to get their way. Hope this might help; God bless!

Oh, and about Christmas: simply a holiday where Christians tired of seeing pagan celebrations, like about the "rebirth of the sun", or something like that, rampant, and decided to celebrate their own holiday: The birth of the Son! Guess which one stuck?

Answer 6

I love that am brainwashed by the TRUE WORDS OF GOD!!!! Also not just my brain, my sins have all been washed away, my soul, my spirit all washed clean. What a great feeling to have knowing that God loved us so much he left us a book on how to get to really know him. Without this book of living words, I would have never come to know that Jesus Christ is real. THANK GOD FOR BRAINWASHING ME!!!!!!!

Answer 7

Thank you !!!!!!

Glad to see there is some intelligent thought on YA. Religion is a good thing but blind obedience is very dangerous.

Blessed be.......

By the way christmas or rather Yule (Dec 21) was a Pagan celebration way before it was "adopted" by the christians.

Answer 8

And so you know now what God gave you.......it is called free will and you are so exhibiting it to the fullest. Isn't God Divine! You are allowed to question in such a way. But sooner or later, and it seems later for you, all will come to understand the Divine Creation.

Answer 9

I hope it's not the most advanced. I'd like to think we've progressed at least a little in the last 2000 years.

Answer 10

Yea, today we have mental hospitals for people who claim to have spoken to God!
One really has to be spiritually and intellectually lazy to allow that kind of control to reach beyond young adulthood.

Answer 11

Couldn't agree more. Anybody seen the trailer for "Jesus Camp" yet?