...christianity has the whole "believe this shit or burn forever" going for it.
which is really a turn off for most people not raised in it.
and the "everything sucks right now, but if you believe and have faith in the lord, you will have it so much better after im dead"
which is usually followed with "ok now give us a donation" (so we can have it so much better right now)
sure.
believing in a god that loves ya and takes care of ya, great.
but once you implicate the bible in that, you just have much more questions than answers.
plus, you cant call yourself a christian.
not really.
have you given up all your possessions?
if not, you are just a fan, not a follower of christ.
see thats the problem.
most people can not read the bible, without skipping parts.
saying stuff like "thats not for people today, thats for people then" ("the rules change people, deal with it")
to everyone thats considered intelligent today.
the bible is mostly hogwash with a few good points.
no different from any other silly pagan religion (after all, christianity was combined with many pagan traditions to lure in more people)
its all that stuff, ignoring the obvious and all that talk of fearing the lord. ("behave or ill fucking burn ya!")
"here´s free will, now do what i want or ill burn ya"
of course you can interpret the bible in so many ways and thats the problem.
burning and torturing people of other faiths, was totally acceptable to the religious of that time (and reading that same bible as you do)
because they were saving them from an eternity of torture.
see..
either you say, the bible is a mixmatch of totally different things and ideas, most of which born of some delusional primitive fuck´s mind.
maybe there was a jesus, but mostly we can not be sure of anything about him or what he said.
maybe there is a god, but we sure arent close to proving that (making god irrelevant)
either that, or god is insane and we are fucked. (if you take the bible literally)
you can not come to any other conclusion, reading the bible with no reverance for it.
that either its god is a vicious lunatic dictator and we should join the devil in rebellion if its true.
or its just a mix of some ideas about god and some stories that might be true (they were written long after the fact and mostly by nonwitnesses)
along with some stupid stories of delusional people
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so, yes, anyone claiming to believe in the bible and be a follower of any religion in particular, looks and probably is a fool (somewhat anyway)
sure , might be a god, but im damn positive that all of the religions are mostly wrong about it.
sure there might be the spiritual, but its obvious that the religions havent got much to do with it for the most part.
too restrictive and full of stupid limiting ideas.