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Millennials are abandoning organized religion. A new study provides insight into why
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Well, my whole life, I've lived in a society where organized Christianity has overwhelmingly been a force for evil, rather than a force for good. Fuck, I straight-up believe that most Evangelical Christians are devil worshipers. If your religion leads you to hate, you aren't worshiping God, you're worshiping the Devil.
Christianity is, by definition, a cult of human sacrifice.
Kinda puts the entire faith into perspective.
like a candle that burns and therefore melts.
Death cult
They ritualistically eat the body and blood of their god/savior.
Let that sink in.
They wear symbols of a torturous execution device as jewelry, and use it to decorate their homes.
the thing is that the cross has taken on new meaning in christianity. to them, it's not so much a "torturous execution device" as you have said, but rather proof that jesus christ can even live after that. in this way, it is a symbol of life after death, somehow.
Right. I was replying to someone who reframed a tradition of Christianity in a way which highlighted how it could be seen as disturbing or bizarre to someone who was unfamiliar with Christianity; I simply did the same with another tradition.
Well, they were in luck... he's only mostly dead. If he was all the way dead, it wouldn't have worked. but Mostly dead? Miracle Max can work with that.
Suicidal Death Cult
They are actively doing everything in their power to bring about the end of the world.
though according to their belief, the "end of the world" is actually the start of a new, eternal world.
also, as far as i'm aware of, it's not so much the "end of the world", but rather the "end of time", where time refers to the progression towards god.
When you're actively trying to bring about the end of the world, there's no more apt description.
Death Cult Armageddon, great Dimmu album. My parents got it for me along with Enthrone Darkness Triumphant for Christmas one year but they wouldn’t buy me Diablo II because Diablo “didn’t fit the theme of the holiday.”
In all fairness, Diablo has an entirely different lore than Christianity, I can see where they were coming from. We want to burn Yahweh, not Anu.
Dooms day death cult.
Lead by Jesus, the dooms day death cult leader.
I hear he's a "good guy."
I don't think dooms day death cult leaders, make believe or not and I just mean a historical grifter non magical, are good people.
Not even a joke.
Cannibal death cult, If you take part in the sacrament. That is, quite literally, internally perceived as ritual cannibalism.
Fwiw, the belief that it becomes the actual flesh of Jesus is a Catholic thing, by my understanding. In my Protestant upbringing, it was regarded as entirely symbolic.
Oh, and we did it with grape juice instead of wine, because apparently Jesus hated alcohol or something. Just don't ask why then his first miracle was turning water into wine.
The grape juice was used because a lot of evangelicals are teetotalers and think even a shot of wine is gonna corrupt peeps.
Which, goes to the other reason Protestants frequently don’t: they don’t see a need to serve wine, while they don’t want to potentially cause an alcoholic to stumble. The chance might be small, but then it’s all symbolic anyway.
Also, grape juice is cheaper.
Not really; one guy died, by his own choice, but came back to life two days later. A real "cult of human sacrifice" would require it as an ongoing practice and for the victims to stay dead.
Jesus alone doesn't make it a death cult. It's a death cult because the whole religion is predicated on death. Dying is the entire point. Your entire life is a means to gain the rewards of dying and only then will you truly be happy.
So much wrongitude here I don't know if this is genuinely what you think or if you're just trolling.
Jesus came to earth so that we could know God, here and now. To nick someone else's quote: It's not pie in the sky when you die, it's steak on your plate while you wait. John 10:10: "I have some so that they may have life, and have it to the full."
I suggest you read the Bible some time. Start with the Gospels, either Luke or John. Not as a means to convert you, but so that you can understand what Christianity is really about, instead of spouting uninformed nonsense about it. You're currently the equivalent of those Christians who say the equivalent of "evolution is just a theory".
Your reward is in heaven right? So the endgame is death. You might get to eat steak while you are alive but you dont get the whole meal until you die. That's a death cult.
No. John 17:3 "Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
My "reward" is right here, right now. While I'm still alive.
A death cult encourages people either to kill or to die. Christianity is not one of those.
Just because there was only one sacrificial offering doesn't mean jesus wasn't a sacrificial offering.
The whole thing about jesus being both fully god and fully man is that no "normal" human would ever be sinless- and therefore would be an inadequate sacrifice. Therefore god became man- that is, jesus- whose sole purpose was to be a "perfect" sacrifice.
But isn’t the whole trinity thing God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit the same entity? So God sacrificed himself for himself… wouldn’t really call a two day nap for some eternal being a sacrifice either.
You're expecting it all to make sense. It's like a the lies a 2 year old tells to explain and justify having gotten into the chocolate cake, after having tried to lay it off like they hadn't (missing the whole having it all over their face thing,).
The longer they're allowed to go, and the more you poke holes the weirder it gets.
This was always my biggest struggle growing up in a catholic house. "He sacrificed himself to save everyone who came before and will come after."
Like, is that really that big of a deal? Shit if i was presented with the option of a much smaller number than infinity, idk say 1000, id sacrifice myself. AND i don't know that I'm god or that my father is god and that ill be taken care of for all eternity.
In all reality, that numbers way less than 1000 for strangers, and if you include anyone i know/care about, that number could be as low as 1.
He set adam and eve up, too. He meant for them to eat the dam fruit,
All so he could LARP as the White Knight™️.
"Eat the fucking fruit!"
No. The christoan God is evil. They're doing exactly as their religion demands.
And this is how wars between religions start...
Maybe try to move away from that God/Devil thing. It's a foolish, naive, human-centered worldview.
Ok, we can restate it. If your religion leads you to hate, you aren’t on the side of good, you’re on the side of bad?
alright, but is the world really as black and white as that? Is there really a clear Good Side, and a clear Bad Side?
Religious people seem to think so. But we can restate again: If your religion leads you to hate, your religion may cause you to act unethically.
If your religion leads you to hate, the religion and its followers are bad. The end.
We're already in a war of religion. One side just hasn't admitted it yet.