Children are told that they sinners at birth because of Adam and Eve’s disobedience and because they will eventually sin themselves. It is impressed upon them that because of this curse of sin at birth (that God put on them), that they are so worthless and faulty that they deserve nothing less than eternal torture. God bore false witness on all future generations for the sins of two people; he forced us to be sick and commands us to be well or face certain doom.

Telling humanity, over and over again, that they are incapable of being moral on their own without God is what we call reinforced conditioning. Rejecting God, Jesus and Christianity leads to certain doom, and the only alternative they acknowledge is the urgent need to accept their authority before it is too late. Threats are the hallmark of the wicked. Any God who uses threats is a wicked god, and anyone who follows such a god is just as wicked.

Children are told they have helped put the nails in the hands and feet of Jesus, since they are sinners at birth, and admitting this guilt gives them the reward of living with the victim for eternity. Denying this guilt and need for God’s forgiveness results in eternal damnation. When punishment and reward are involved, there can be no morality.

If disobedience and thinking for ourselves got us in trouble with God in the first place, and passive obedience is necessary, then humans have no free will and are slaves to a God who has given conflicting messages in the bible about sin, faith, and salvation.

Any Christian church who preaches and supports this theology is practicing psychological abuse. Any Christian church who does not support that theology and only teaches love without sin and damnation has a theology that is not supported by the Bible.

The widespread unawareness of the psychological abuse in Christianity and similar traditions like the Jehovah Witnesses, is not unusual, and I can understand why people laugh at that idea until it is bluntly pointed out to them….

On top of this, Christian faith demands that people accept its assertions without question, and fear and guilt is used to keep people from rejecting its authority. Difficult questions that cannot be averted are answered with a simple response of relying on faith.

Critical thinking is the search for truth and is a part of education to assess our beliefs and evaluate the worth of what we hear second hand. Christian faith relies on accepting a “truth” without question, assessment, logical analysis, or evidence.

The bible tells us that gaining knowledge and a conscience led to hellfire and thinking for ourselves is what got us in trouble with God in the first place. It says anything that is not faith is sin.

Relying on faith to avoid rational thinking in the face of doubt is a cowards way of life, and if faith is the only way you can accept an assertion, you are conceding it cannot be accepted by its own merits.

There are serious logical implications for the Christian who shyly avoids the truth because it “creates doubt” and who boldly touts that Satan wants us to believe he is God and be afraid of the truth because it creates doubt. The Bible shows us that God is jealous, wrathful, murderous, vain, unjust, and a tempter who blinds people and confuses them so that they don’t get Jesus’ message and who has already chosen those are are to be saved since the beginning of time. These are the same attributes Christians give to Satan, and we can easily conclude that the Satan has convinced the world he doesn’t exist by making people believe he is the biblical god……

And if you did some research, you would know that renowned author and journalist, Christopher Hitchens, has already pointed out that Mother Theresa was not a saint. She was by record a fundamentalist, a fanatic, and a fraud.

She denied medical help to those in her Calcutta hospice and she used the money that she was given to build 100-500 convents in 100 countries bearing the name of her order, rather than use it to make sure those people got better care. These patients slept on cots, were denied family visits, and were left to die, while she went to hospitals in the U.S. when she was sick.

Mother Theresa thought suffering brought them closer to God, and claimed poverty was a gift from God.

At the expense of those in her hospice, she gained money to give to the Catholic Church. She didn’t use the money to get them better care, she was a sadist who promoted her religion at the expense of their suffering and lives, while she traveled around the world and received over 100 awards for her “acts of kindness.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3tUuA7WBRE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8MDnuUsE4&feature=related

The contempt that the Bible has for women and children is probably unmatched in any other literature, not to mention the contempt that God and Jesus had for Gentiles. The entire theme is about God and Jesus’ partiality for the Jews. Paul (a man who never met or saw an earthly Jesus), not Jesus, made Jesus’ message available for Gentiles.

The Bible undermines Christian teachings because the religion has cherry picked its contents and misrepresented its context. The bible is a book about the Jews, and Jesus Himself denied his message to Gentiles. It is a contradiction for non-Jews to find any meaning in it for them.

The treatment of women, children, and Gentiles in the Bible should cause any compassionate, self-realizing moral person who has actually read the book to want to throw it in the nearest bond fire.

Any church, which is a large majority of them, that teach people delusions of worthlessness and guilt – claiming humans are inherently bad from birth and incapable of being intrinsically moral, who use eternal torture as a threat for not believing in a jealous, wrathful, vain, unjust, murderous god who tempts people (all attributes of the biblical God) is a hateful and sadistic church with a misanthropic idea and hateful practice. The veil of love and omnibenevolence does not conceal the horror of Orthodox Christianity nor of the hateful acts of the biblical deity from the skeptical eye.

Here’s one that I have reprinted on my new blog:

http://nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/01/friends-of-rick-perry-joseph-allbaugh.html

I would love to hear what you think.

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