Slop.

Christianity was an apocalyptic prophetic cult that expected Jesus to come back within a few months or so. His message was to reject anything that might lead you away from belief in him as the son of God and messenger for the immediate apocalypse. So there are like 200 parables about denying earthly desires to instead focus on belief in Jesus as Prophet and proselytizing.

When Jesus never came back, they invented the field of Christian apologetics, grew in numbers, and became a state religion, something in explicit opposition to the Gospels. Now there is an intentionally opaque and roundabout justification for everything the Euro ruling class wanted to do for about 2000 years.

If Christianity went against all of our desires then it would have become extinct very quickly. Instead, it encourages many phenomena that are naturally appealing to us. Charity. Forgiveness. Self-sacrifice. Triumph. Unity. The hanged one said ‘blessed are the poor’ and he favoured us over the rich, hence why many of us flocked to Christianity before it became the Roman Empire’s state religion.

I am presuming that by ‘man’s desires’ the author had sexual attraction in mind, as

You know the next commandment pretty well, too: ‘Don’t go to bed with another’s spouse.’ But don’t think you’ve preserved your virtue simply by staying out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those ogling looks you think nobody notices—they also corrupt.

I think that the overwhelming majority of wives would agree that suppressing lust for other women is good advice for their husbands, even if for most husbands that sounds difficult to do, albeit not as difficult as removing an eye or a hand. This verse was inspired by the Torah, because while it may never explicitly condemn lust, the hanged one, as Amy-Jill Levine wrote, ‘does not “oppose” the Law; he extends it.’

To exert control

If Christianity is a god made religion, why does he permit slavery? Is god evil or something?

Really telling on yourself when saying that Christianity forbids everything you desire. Terrifying that the thing standing between this dweeb and a spree of murder is a belief in religion so fragile they’re making shitty Chad memes to have shower arguments with atheist strawmen.

All religions are man made.

Did christianity go against the desires of the christians who willingly engaged in the slave trade? Did it go against the desires of the christians who perpetrated Manifest Destiny, the Lebensraum, the Holocaust, the genocide in Palestine and many other similar atrocities? Does it go against the desires of religious leaders who live in opulence? Does it go against the desires of the pedophiles in the Vatican and other christian establishments?

So just off the top of my head doesn't christianity say not to murder people? Is the person who made this saying they desire murder?

fellas, y'all should join my new religion called "never touch your dick"

Oh please, the Old Testament reads precisely like a list of things a bronze age patriarch would want out of his flock.

Because religion was traditionally used to exert control over the masses. Do what we say or you will burn in hell for all eternity. Really easy to do when most people were illiterate and uneducated.

By that metric Buddhism is the most religion that ever religioned

weightlifting against man's desire.

Wrong

Don't all religions have restrictions on things you otherwise might do? Does that make all religions correct in this person's eyes?

To add my own 2 cents:

Not everyone has the same desires. From a Marxist-Leninist view, religion, like many social constructs, persists because it advances the interests of the ruling class. Most people don't want to be slaves, but if (for example) your religion's holy book has a passage telling slaves to obey their masters, that aligns with the desires of slaveowners so the slaveowning class is gonna promote that religion.

Forgive my ignorance, but the Bible says you're not supposed to eat pork and seafood or wear clothes made of mixed fibers right?

Because these fuckers definitely do both of those

I remember being in world history class in high school learning about the council of Trent. I remember thinking “oh so they admit it’s man made?? I thought that was a secret.”

man does not desire a patriarchal order where women are chattel? we are going to need to edit a LOT of textbooks

I bet Rainbow Dash could totally fuck Jesus up in a one-on-one deathmatch

wait so mcdonalds is bad now? i thought it was a core tenant of american christianity

Christianity opposes My Little Pony and Netflix?

Genuinely lost with what this meme is depicting lol

they depicted atheists as netflix watchers, it's so joever

Even if God is real and everything in the Bible factually happened as stated, religion would still be a man made social structure. Facts don't care about your feelings.