Christianity is MAINLY a dead religion! Who is with me?

Question

admit it, the 50% of Christianity is based on tradition and politics!

Answer 1

100% of any organized religion is based on tradition and politics. Superstition and mythology are part of tradition. The rest is making your views more important/more right than the other guys views, and having people believe them (politics).

It is not dead, however, as, what, 800 million people will have issues with that assesment. Sun worship and totemism are dead religions.

I think people confuse organized religion with spirituality. Organized religions are like dictatorships, a select few hold the power and the money and tell everyone else what to do and how to act but they, themselves, have no accountability.

Your personal beliefs and moral structure (spirituality) are more important and serve a greater good (despite their questionability) than what some dude in a dress tells you should be your beliefs and moral structure.

Answer 2

I've only discovered the Yahoo answers in the past week and a half so I might be mistaken, but it seems that the most hostile comments regarding religion (the belief in a higher being experssed through worship and ritual) are directed at Christianity.

I disagree with the idea of ANY religion being dead. I remember meeting a Quaker two years ago, and I was pleasantly humbled to find that I, in my assumption that such a sect of Christians must surely be dwindled away, was wrong. As long as there is one of anything then there is life. Gosh...even one of my best friends in England is a modern day pagan come to think of it.

I also notice that tradition, any hint of tradition, is also subject to such a negative understanding, as if everything is supposed to be novel and cut off from any past. That understanding of tradition is not a religious question but more about popular culture's hang-up's with tradition and meaning. It reminds me of the musical Fiddler on the Roof when the older peasants see the continuity and the young don't get it until the end.

Answer 3

Why must you tear down someone else's religion in order to feel good about yourself?

Christianity is FAR from a dead religion. Granted, some of it is driven by conservative political agendas, but not all of it.

Personally, I have nothing against anybody based on their religious choices, because I don't think it's appropriate. I think I'm going to believe whatever the heck I want, and if you try to tell me I'm wrong, you can STFU. It would be nice if everybody just left religion alone and did what they felt was right - if it's right for you to be Christian, great! I'll support that. If it's right for you to be Muslim, great! I'll support that too. But if it's wrong for me to be like you and you keep trying to "save my soul", then we're going to have issues.

Just my $0.02

Answer 4

I even have concept approximately those issues too. i don't be conscious of who will flow to hell. God is the only one that could answer that. As for the Christians following the failings you point out, i'm no longer Catholic. i'm a Christian. My priest is Jesus. although in simple terms via fact some human beings do incorrect does no longer mean anyone in that place do the comparable element. there are hundreds of great priests and human beings interior the Catholic church who're doing their appropriate. All Christians at the instant are not of the comparable perception and that i be conscious of that's annoying to comprehend additionally. I save on with the classes of Jesus. I even have searched all my existence for experts and cons and characteristic desperate that Jesus is the way.

Answer 5

And where is your proof that "50 percent of Christianity is based on tradition and politics"?

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Answer 6

More than 50%, but how does that make it a dead religion?

Answer 7

It's not dead. There are many Christian groups here in New Orleans who are still quietly volunteering their time and energy to gut houses and help rebuild, without trying to preach or convert or anything.

Answer 8

Well, at least your avitar is accurate.
The USA is just over 81% Christian. Thats the majority, in case you are a bit slow at Math.
So, you think Its dead, huh? Well, we'll see who's dead and who isn't, so I quess I'll leave that to the future.

Answer 9

When Jesus returns, will you still call it a dead religion?

How can it be dead if a huge number of people and countries call themselves Christian?

Answer 10

I would say with 2.1 billion adherents (of various denominations that may or may not agree with each other) it'll take a while to die out. But I am positive it will eventually go the way of Zeus (with apologies to any Zeus-believers out there).