by gaiagirl 25 Replies latest jw friends
"The belief that a jewish Zombie who can make you live forever in paradise if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree".
Pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?
"The belief that a jewish Zombie who can make you live forever in paradise if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree".
Pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?
Not really. It might describe JW's though.
gaiagirl
Pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?
It pretty much sums you up!
It does in a way 'pretty much' sum it up (at least for most of Christianity), but in a way even I'm not too keen on. It creates division more than it makes people think. But I suspect it is written using that particular wording because the usual words used to describe it all have become so ingrained in us and our culture, that only by substituting them with these kinds of alternative - albeit derogatory or ridiculing - words, can we see the absurdity of it from outside the box. But a little too harsh for me. I mean - I can personally laugh at its sarcasm, but I can understand that people's feelings are hurt by it as well.
Another thing is that anything can be summed up in a similar way, but it wouldn't be accurate. Creationists could for instance say that "A blob of goo turned into a cell, which turned into a fish, which turned into a reptile, which turned into a mammal, which turned into an ape, which turned into us." would 'pretty much sum up evolution' (and show how absurd it was), but it wouldn't be accurate or true.
That we are inherently evil people that need someone to give us all the instruction, tell us what to think and do, and control our ideas. Of course, there is one person that is capable of saving us IF we are willing to follow a few rules and sacrifice time, money, and energy to some religious leader.
This is common to all Christian denominations. True, some are more ridiculous than others (the Watchtower Society is extreme, and they substitute the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger for Christ, and they focus too much on the rules and the sacrifice). But all of them distort Christ's real intended message--which is freedom of thinking on one's own. Notice that the truth was supposed to set one free, not bind one to a bunch of mandatory traditions, celebrations, observations, and/or sacrifice. Nor was a small group of people supposed to get rich off the backs of those in the membership.
I don't think it's possible for anyone to be a true Christian--that is, anyone other than Christ himself. Christ himself would have felt defeated if his followers tried to imitate him in every little way, since he was trying to get them to think on their own rather than do their thinking for them.
Gaiagirl - I can't wait for the movie of your version. Sounds wild.
Robdar and Deputy Dog:
What part of gaiagirl's post was not an accurate description of Christianity?
That would be a fair description were it not for the fact that Jesus is the Lord Almighty.
That fact changes everything.
Kneel before the Lord!
6 For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire,8 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.9 These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,10 when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed—for our testimony to you was believed. (2 Thess. 1:6-10)
Feel His love!
That would be a fair description were it not for the fact that Jesus is the Lord Almighty.
That fact changes everything.
Kneel before the Lord!
All's fair in love and war...but not in Christianity.
Kneel before the Lord? Feel his Love? Isn't that what some child abusers say to their victims?
(And I'm totally serious, not intending that as a joke in any way, shape, or fashion).
