What's your general opinion of Christianity?

DarthDub · Oct 4, 2018

It would be a great concept if people didn't constantly make sects (branch off etc) of it. If you want absolute truth, you don't change words to benefit yourself. Humanity will always be flawed, just like how I'm flawed making this poorly written post here.

Esdeath · Oct 4, 2018

I am a christian myself and had never a Problem with other Christians since I never met someone which had the "Religion before anything else" mentality (I am christian because I havent left the church yet).
Even though I believe that the church itself and most of its visitors are a bunch of Hypocrites, for me the church has nothing to do with the faith.

JellyPerson · Oct 4, 2018

If God loves all of his subjects and is omnipotent and merciful and all that, shouldn't he have not, like, banished Satan to hell? Or even forgive all the people who sin, even by accident? If God is omnipotent, why does he let young children die? Why do people die at all? If God is such a great, well, god, why are there so many evil people in the world? There are so many unanswered perfectly reasonable questions in the Quran/Bible/Torah. I talked to my parents about this, and they just said "That's just how it works, dude." I wish the Holy Books could answer my questions instead of bringing up more unanswered questions.

DarthDub · Oct 4, 2018

JellyPerson said:
If God loves all of his subjects and is omnipotent and merciful and all that, shouldn't he have not, like, banished Satan to hell? Or even forgive all the people who sin, even by accident? If God is omnipotent, why does he let young children die? Why do people die at all? If God is such a great, well, god, why are there so many evil people in the world? There are so many unanswered perfectly reasonable questions in the Quran/Bible/Torah. I talked to my parents about this, and they just said "That's just how it works, dude." I wish the Holy Books could answer my questions instead of bringing up more unanswered questions.

We were given freewill, to think for ourselves.

JellyPerson · Oct 4, 2018

DarthDub said:
We were given freewill, to think for ourselves.

Yeah, that's a decent answer to explain murder. However, why do young children die of illness? It isn't like it's anyone's choice they die of something like Tuberculosis.

DinohScene · Oct 4, 2018

JellyPerson said:
Yeah, that's a decent answer to explain murder. However, why do young children die of illness? It isn't like it's anyone's choice they die of something like Tuberculosis.

Young children die of illness cause they're ill.
Not because "god" wants it, no, a bacteria, virus or w/e wants it.
God doesn't do shit about it neither, medical personnel does ;')

m00k00 · Oct 4, 2018

IMHO Religions are only for the weak and fearful. Once you accept that your Body is basically a machine that's slowly degrading as time passes by you will understand that death is nothing to fear. This moment of illumination will open your eyes and make you see that you should do the best with your life NOW ... and not hope and wait for an enternal existance where you are able to correct all of your faults and misbehaviours. Of course it takes a certain amount of intelligence to understand this. However once you've understood this there's no reason to hope for your afterlife ... this is why I say: Do the right thing now and always ... if you hope that you are able to correct everything you've made wrong in your life after you died I can only advise you to stop wasting your time with Religions and Philosophies and start to improve your life today, because right now you've got the opportunity in your hands ... why would you want to waste it?

To sum it up: Religions were created by smart people trying to rip you off, because many people fear death and these people learned to make a dime from this circumstance. Be smarter than them and don't listen to their words ... eventually you will be enlightend one day.

JellyPerson · Oct 4, 2018

DinohScene said:
Young children die of illness cause they're ill.
Not because "god" wants it, no, a bacteria, virus or w/e wants it.
God doesn't do shit about it neither, medical personnel does ;')

I never said "god" wants it. If God was Omnipotent and Merciful he would save the child from dying.

DinohScene · Oct 4, 2018

JellyPerson said:
I never said "god" wants it. If God was Omnipotent and Merciful he would save the child from dying.

That's exactly me point haha.
If there was a god that's all mighty then we wouldn't have wars.
Nor would we have illnesses or poverty stricken people.

Religion is basically just a way of life.
I chose mine to not practice any religion.

brickmii82 · Oct 4, 2018

Christ was an exceptional man with an exceptional way of thinking. Most of the churches that are based around him are not very "Christ-like."

Matthew 23
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
"The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.
So you must obey them and do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
They tie up heavy loads and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
Everything they do is done for men to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long;
they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues;
they love to be greeted in the marketplaces and to have men call them `Rabbi.'
But you are not to be called `Rabbi,' for you have only one Master and you are all brothers.
And do not call anyone on earth `father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.
Nor are you to be called `teacher,' for you have one Teacher, the Christ.
The greatest among you will be your servant.
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."

Basically he called out the hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders. Now it'd be the Christian ones. A hurricane happens and you have to be asked to open your doors? A family is devastated by an abusive alcoholic and you won't help because they're not a church member?
You swing a sword of hatred before a hand of love? You surround yourselves with aristocrats and fortuitous when he surrounded himself with lepers and prostitutes?

You do not know this man, this Christ you claim to cherish ...

lolboy · Oct 4, 2018

TerribleTy27 said:
Before anyone flames me with examples of the Old Testsment, keep in mind that it was made when God was playing favourites with the Jews. It took place in a completely different culture that is now invalidated by the New Testament

So, whom decides that the old testament should not be followed anymore? I don't get the testament thing in christianity?

The Catboy · Oct 4, 2018

I respect Christians so long as they respect me, this is how I treat everyone. I judge others based on their actions, not on ideas/believes. My best friend in the whole world who I love to pieces is a Christian and she respects me despite the fact that I am Lucferian Satanist.

lolboy · Oct 4, 2018

Arecaidian Fox said:
Gandhi disputably has said...

Why are some people obsessed with this old skinny indian guy?

JellyPerson said:
If God loves all of his subjects and is omnipotent and merciful and all that, shouldn't he have not, like, banished Satan to hell? Or even forgive all the people who sin, even by accident? If God is omnipotent, why does he let young children die? Why do people die at all? If God is such a great, well, god, why are there so many evil people in the world? There are so many unanswered perfectly reasonable questions in the Quran/Bible/Torah..

I could answer your question from religion point of view. I have traveled alot talking to many people trying to understand religion.

DeadlyFoez · Oct 4, 2018

I am agnostic. I have not seen any proof that god does or does not exist, and no one else has seen proof either way except for those with mental health problems or those that are already dead.

With the hundreds of religions out there, for anyone to say that their religion is right while all the others are wrong is just bullshit. Sadly, the christian faith and it's followers have been able to come up with a generic rebuttal about nearly anything that someone can say to try to discredit their faith. And no one can seem to agree on what the bible means, whether it is to be taken literally or metaphorically, if those are events that really happened (I doubt it) or stories just told by others.

"Why would god have allowed little suzy to die?", "Because god knew that that her passing would bring more people to follow him"
"Tammy's house burned down and she died. The only thing to not burn was the bible on her bedside", "And god did that she show how strong and powerful he is. Isn't god great"

I noticed that a majority of christians that I have encountered are the biggest hypocrites. So many of them preach about how your body is god temple, but then they go home, smoke, drink, swear and anything else that they desire to do. They choose their own sin that they find is acceptable and alright. But when confronted, they go on with that bullshit of "I am only human, and it is human nature to sin. Thank satan for that".

Religion is just another business, except it doesn't get taxed like it should. Pastors and priests generally don't need to work any other job to support their family. All of their income comes from the people of the church. And if they have a big congregation then they tend to have a lot of money to spend on things like airplanes boats and multiple homes. One who serves god should not be getting rich off of it. Instead, they should still have a job and use their position in the church just as any other volunteer in a soup kitchen or helping sick children. Helping your brothers get salvation should be something that a good christian just attempts to do and helps out how they can without needing to get a paycheck for it.

This is a topic I could go on for days about. Unfortunately, many people get very emotional over religion and it tends to start a lot of fights.

linuxares · Oct 4, 2018

Do I believe in a god? Well... sort of? Or should I say, I question a lot of stuff. For example the Big Bang. What the heck was before it? How can nothing be something. It's the only reason why I'm sort of standing on the ground that this universe is either "man made" or "deity". Or there is a much larger force than we can't comprehend...

DeadlyFoez · Oct 4, 2018

linuxares said:
Do I believe in a god? Well... sort of? Or should I say, I question a lot of stuff. For example the Big Bang. What the heck was before it? How can nothing be something. It's the only reason why I'm sort of standing on the ground that this universe is either "man made" or "deity". Or there is a much larger force than we can't comprehend...

I strongly believe in the string theory. With that, there is part of it that says that so much mass collected in a super massive black hole on another plane of the universe that the weight of it touched our plane of the universe and dumped all that matter here.

Now, what still started all of that? Science still hasn't figured it out. Science is about asking question, coming to a logically conclusion, and then conducting experiments to observe what happens.

What came before god? "God has always been and always will be". So that is possible for a god but not matter and reality?

All religion has ever done is just made stories to explain the things that people don't understand until science proves something about their belief wrong. How many scientists, astronomers, and general researchers have made claims about things that the church deemed to be lies and then banished that person only to find out later on that the person was right? Quite a lot.

linuxares · Oct 4, 2018

I totally agree with you. That's the second question, if god exist. Who or what created God?

HamBone41801 · Oct 4, 2018

Lilith Valentine said:
I respect Christians so long as they respect me, this is how I treat everyone. I judge others based on their actions, not on ideas/believes. My best friend in the whole world who I love to pieces is a Christian and she respects me despite the fact that I am Lucferian Satanist.

I tried explaining what that is to an old guy in my old church once. It didn’t go well.

As for me, I’m an ex-Baptist, currently Lutheran. I think the church as a whole has done a lot of good for a lot of people in more recent years, but they’ve had just as negative of an impact for a long time now, and honestly, the only thing that’s changed is whether or not they’re allowed to hang/burn/jail their perceived “opposition”.

BlastedGuy9905 · Oct 4, 2018

TerribleTy27 said:
Before anyone flames me with examples of the Old Testsment, keep in mind that it was made when God was playing favourites with the Jews. It took place in a completely different culture that is now invalidated by the New Testament as mentioned In John, Romans, and others. From Jesus and onwards, Christians were supposed to follow the two commandments: Love your God with all your heart soul mind and strength, and love your neighbor as you love yourself.

Idk about you, but that sounds like a good philosophy no matter where you look from.

So, now. Opinions?

I am technically Christian but I honestly couldn't give a shit about religion. If you don't kill, steal or hurt anyone else, you're a decent person.

Taleweaver · Oct 4, 2018

Clydefrosch said:
show me the christian that comes even close to living by the word of jesus.

I once multiplied bread and fish...

...all I got for it was a ban from WoW servers.

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