'All me are sinful' is drummed into kids at a young age! Then comes the life of slavery to a fake god as it's too late. What kind of weird cult is this? How can anyone not see this!!
2007-07-20 11:49:27 · 12 answers · asked by thethinker 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and offers eternity with him in exchange for personal acceptance
Yes because the creator of the universe would really be so petty! ha ha
2007-07-20 11:54:37 · update #1
That's about it. you were born a sinner and the ONLY way to escape that is to believe what we tell you.
Strange but apparently effective.
2007-07-20 11:56:19 · answer #1 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1) The guilt isn't for being born, but for sinning.
2) If we are guilty, then the proper response to this is to feel guilty.
3) Repenting of sin however removes the guilt.
Not a cult, just the truth.
2007-07-20 19:02:21 · answer #2 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't feel guilty for being born. Christianity teaches that God loves everyone (and by that I mean all 7 billion of us), and offers eternity with him in exchange for personal acceptance.
2007-07-20 18:53:46 · answer #3 · answered by Skunk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not I, As to slavery? Have you seen it lately? I've seen slavery to tobacco, alcohol, sex, drugs. It takes some doing to unfetter. Christianity is antislavery. It helps teach kids from a young age not to get caught up in any form of that degradation. What's wrong with that? This world would be in dire straights without "religion," or God to teach us to walk on our hind legs.
T_rex, speak for yourself, you give 'Christians' a bad name.
2007-07-20 18:59:01 · answer #4 · answered by Blank 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God: "Thou hast forsaken My Church!"
Homer: "Uh, kind of ... but ...."
God: "But what?"
Homer: "I'm not a bad guy! I work hard, and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?"
God: [pause] "Hmm ... You've got a point there."
Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
— Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
The biblical concepts of sin and salvation are an integral part of Christian doctrine. Christianity first creates a problem (sin) and then offers a "solution" (salvation). This is not unlike the protection racket; you either buy "protection"--or else.
— Don Morgan
Christianity simply does not make sense. Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
— C.S. Lewis
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter, there is no wrong way to become a Christian. It is the end that is important, not the means; it does not matter why you believe, so long as you believe. For the philosopher, in contrast, the paramount issue is the justification of belief, not the fact of belief itself.
— George H. Smith
In exchange for obedience, Christianity promises salvation in an afterlife; but in order to elicit obedience through this promise, Christianity must convince men that they need salvation, that there is something to be saved from. Christianity has nothing to offer a happy man living in a natural, intelligible universe. If Christianity is to gain a motivational foothold, it must declare war on earthly pleasure and happiness, and this, historically, has been its precise course of action. In the eyes of Christianity, man is sinful and helpless in the face of God, and is potential fuel for the flames of hell. Just as Christianity must destroy reason before it can introduce faith, so it must destroy happiness before it can introduce salvation.
— George H. Smith
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that [crucifixion of Jesus Christ]!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form -- the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
— Thomas Huxley; (1825-1895)
I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance.
— Christopher Marlowe
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky; (1821-1881)
2007-07-20 19:00:48 · answer #5 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have never felt guilty for being born nor do I believe that children are born sinful. I believe that our loving Father in heaven has prepared a way for us to become exalted. I don't know who you have been talking to but they gave it to you all wrong.
2007-07-20 18:57:33 · answer #6 · answered by Ethan M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't make anyone feel guilty for being born.
It gives me comfort to know that my mistakes are all taken care of and that as long as I am trying my best, it is all cool.
2007-07-20 18:53:44 · answer #7 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me know when you're ready to ask a REAL question instead of just trying to cause a raucous.
2007-07-20 18:56:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never felt guilty about being born.
2007-07-20 18:56:14 · answer #9 · answered by al8067 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most normal people will agree that it's wrong when Christians do this. Christians won't agree though.
2007-07-20 18:55:24 · answer #10 · answered by gruz 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋