What is so wrong?

Question

with christianity? i mean they teach about a God who loves you and will do anything for you even become a man and die for you.....then he will rise from the dead and offer you an eternity with him in the best place u can ever imagine.....is that so hard to believe? is it really that bad? i just dont understand that some ppl (not all) bash and tear down christianity because of the good that it talks about?

i dont know i just dont know

Answer 1

Free will makes things very interesting. I love my Lord. : )

Answer 2

The worst thing about christianity is that none of it is true. As long as people are being persuaded tha tit is true, they will not be seeking what is. Here is an analogy. Suppose you have cancer and the doctor gives you a placebo pill that you believe will make you all better. The pill does no harm, but the illusion that it will save you prevents you from seeing the need to seek a second opinion and receiving treatment that could have made a difference. Salvation is much more important than cancer.

Answer 3

What is so wrong with Santa? He loves you and will do anything for you, even fly around the world in a single night delivering presents ... is that so hard to believe? Is it really that bad?

You don't judge the validity of a story based on how nice you think it would be if it were true. That's just stupid.

Answer 4

The only problem we have with it as that some christians despise us and wish, and try, to impose it upon us.
These are pretty good reasons.
If it weren't for that, we would be happy to let you live in a fantasy world.
Well, maybe we wouldn't actually be happy. It also saddens us that people of the modern world cling to such primitive notions.

Answer 5

You say that god will do anything for people, even abstract things like rising from the dead. Will god feed starving people or cure their diseases or protect them from evil, you know, things that are not so abstract as to be meaningless? No, of course not. So what good is your god?

Answer 6

Ok, I'll spell it out for you.

About 1590, the physics experiments of Galileo Galilei proved that the physical realm is absolutely real. This was in direct contridiction with Aristotle's Solipsism, which maintained that the basis of reality was subjective experience and that the physical realm was a mental illusion. Solipsism was a fundamental premise of Western civilization and of Christianity. Jesus Christ and all his followers, the founders of the early Church, and the men who wrote the Bible were all Solipsists. The Dark Ages, prior to the Renaissance, was devoid of technological progress precisely because the citizens of those times were all Solipsists who imagined the physical realm was a mental illusion.

Plato's Idealism became another philosophical cornerstone of Christianity. Idealism maintained that the idea of an object was more "noble" than the object itself. For example, a common stick of wood can be easily consumed by fire, but the idea of wood was considered eternal. The concept of woodenness resides in the minds of the gods and for men to think about wood required a form of mental telepathy with the god of wood.

About 390 AD, St Augustine invented the concept of the immortal human spirit, or soul. Augustine combined Idealism with Solipsism and asserted that God loaned each new human being a tiny bit of His own immortal essence at the moment of their birth. The experience of being alive was believed to grow God's gift into a human soul, which returned to God in Heaven when the person eventually died. Augustine's concept of soul answered two important theological questions. It explained the nature of human consciousness as well as how Christ's promise of eternal life was possible. (When Christ spoke of human immortality He used paternalistic allegories and did not specify a practical mechanism.) The triune philosophies of Solipsism, Idealism, and Soul -- unsubstantiated by any form of tangible evidence -- dominated Western civilization for another 1500 years after St. Augustine.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the invention of the electronic vacuum tube led directly to the electroencephalograph (EEG) which quickly proved that all thoughts, memories, emotions, and perceptions originate in the neurological structures of a living human brain. The human mind is entirely self-contained and does not require telepathy with the gods in order to think or feel. Subjective experience is created exclusively by our living brains, based on the limited information about our environment provided by our five senses. With both Idealism and Solipsism utterly discredited, Augustine's imaginary Soul is simply impossible. Modern people who can face the truth know that when they die, it is the end of their existence.

You asked what is wrong with Christianity. ...simply the fact that it is manifestly untrue. Christians make the positive assertion that God exists, but given two-thousand years, have totally failed to provide any tangible evidence to support their claim. Hence, Christianity's assertion that God exists is undeniably false. The truth is Christians (and other believers) make a fundamental perceptual error by assuming that their own subjective experience is real and thus delude themselves into believing their God actually exists. Why does this matter? It matters because it is simply not true that God exists in objective (physical) reality. It also matters because Christians (and other believers) so relentlessly and ruthlessly persist in forcing their superstitions upon their fellow citizens and into the laws of the land. Humanity is now wise enough to understand that all conclusions derived from a false premise (that God exists) are categorically false. Humanity has learned the hard way, too many times, that those who choose to remain willfully ignorant of the factual truth never serve the best interests of their fellow citizens. Since the scientific revolution began 400 years ago, humanity has made enormous progress overcoming the consequences of our earlier ignorance and superstition. We have learned that religion has no place in our democratic government. Those who value the power of truth have also learned that religious superstition has no place in their own thoughts.

Answer 7

Your last 7 words seem to say it all "i dont know i just dont know"... Yup you don't know but that's usually what happens when you have blinders firmly in place..

Read the rest of your bible that parts about the wrath, the killing, the drowning of all but a select few, etc.

Be forewarned that will mean removing the blinders be sure you are ready for it before you do it..

Answer 8

How about the fact that if you don't follow the doctrines of the faith, the God who sent his son to die for our sins will just damn us to Hell for all of eternity regardless of how we lived our lives. I don't care what you say about Christianity that belief is just sick.

Answer 9

Well like all religions it can cause mental health problems in some people,guilt and other hang ups etc.Also it teaches people to view themselves as better than others and it splits people,look at Northern Ireland for example.

Answer 10

it is a ridiculous concept. Jesus, fathered by a ghost? Born to a virgin? Risen from the grave? Ya tell me another one.