As a person with a Christian belief myself, I sometimes despair over Christians and the Christianity.
Christianity attracts a lot of what I would deem as less desireable elements of the mankind. People who use Christianity to further their own causes and desires. Just like Adolf Hitler did and Holocaust was the end product. Off course, the Bible said it is every Christian's duty to kill the Jews, Jesus murderers according to Hitler and the Nazis. A theological view Mel Gibson in his movie The Passion of the Christ also justified. A movie universally praised by the vast majority of the Christianity.
But the same Bible is also used to justify the pretty horrific things the Palestinians has to go through every day in the hands of Israel. We are being told by Christians that there is no such people like Palestinians and they therefore has no human rights. So says the Bible and the Christian faith, we are being told.
And we have Christian leaders being caught in the act molesting children. Christianity is a safe haven for those who seek to molest children and women. The detection rate is almost zero and you can freely molest everyone you want every day if you preach the "satan is everywhere and in particular in the police and the media" gospel. The Bible has said it is OK to molest, we are being told. And those who defends children and women against Christian leaders who abuse them are satanists and possessed by demons.
Lies......... there are plenty. In my Christian faith, lies are a deadly sin and I try to keep my lies to zero. A hard task, I have to admit and I sometimes fail to live up to this standard. But in Christianity, lies are acceptable and a desired tool in spreading the gospel. The Ten Commandments says something else, but.....
The Ten Commandments..... I have always admired the atheists in this respect. Most of them live lifes most Christians should admire. It is a paradox that most atheists lives closer to the Christian standards set down by the Ten Commandments and the rest of the Bible than the Christians themselves. Why is that ? I think atheists has higher moral standards than the Christians who believe "I can lie here and there, hate the Arabs, molest my children and be unfaithful to my wife because I will end up in Heaven whatever I do". And that is a view I really take issue with.
And that is the core of the problem. For many, Christianity is a licence to live a morally repugnant life. A licence taken up by everyone from an US president candidate who leaves his wife in her deathbed for a romp in the bed with his mistress to the young man/woman in the local congregation who spread lies about another race and another religion.
I do not see any difference between their branch of Christianity and the branch of Islam who commited 9/11. And I do not want to have anything to do with neither of them.
I have a Christian belief and I sometimes fails to live up to the Christian standards. But please do not lump me together with molesters, liars, cheaters, racists and advocates of genocides. I am a better person than that. If you want to label me, label me a human being. Thank you.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
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