Evils of Christianity
It has been my experience, through my upbringing as a Christian, that Christians are often blind to the evils of the religion. They are taught from a young age that God is almighty, and should never be questioned, so the less-finer points in the religion are often skipped over. Many problems in society have arisen from this religion, which include discrimination, anti-Semitism, sexism, violence and war. Christianity has fought over hundreds of years to become the only religion, scaring people away from other religions in the process. Christians continuously fight among themselves, Baptist against Catholics against Protestant, etc. They can't seem to agree on whose Christian faith is the right one when in actuality they should just honor each other's different beliefs and move on. An excellent quote from Sam Pascoe, who is an American scholar describing Christianity is as follows: "Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it came to America and became an enterprise."
Many other factors also support that Christianity is blind to its evils. Tons of society problems have arisen from Christian beliefs. Many wars have been fought over Christianity. Major wars include the Crusades (1095-1270 A.D.) and also World War II was fueled partially by Adolf Hitler'sChristian beliefs that all other religions are wrong. Discrimination is in large part a result of Christian laws. For example in the Catholic edition of the Bible, Leviticus chapter 18 verse 22 specifically states that homosexuality is a sin: "No man is to have sexual relations with another man; God hates that." This statement causes discrimination of homosexuals. Leviticus chapter 39 tells you that if a fellow Israelite needs...
Evils of Christianity, Is Christianity Good or Bad?
There goes a saying that says you shouldn't read someone else's mail. If you read a personal letter from a friend, to a neighbor, you probably wouldn't know what was going on, am I correct? So don't read the bible and try to interpret it to your liking (the interpretation that won't offend you), and then "present the facts" in an essay as if you know how to interpret it. And Christianity isn't separate from Catholicism. That's why they're called 'Christianity' and 'Catholicism.' And most Christians don't find anything wrong with baptists. I know because I am a Christian myself. And even though the bible is "open to interpretation," there is only one interpretation that will make sense in accordance with the whole bible, or with the passage you're reading.
And how did you figure that Christianity is discrimanitory? The bible says that homosexuality is wrong. That didn't descriminate. God said homosexuality is wrong, the human race was not created to be homosexuals, but function as a person is supposed to. And for true followers of the bible, what God says, goes. Now it isn't saying, "go out and kill homosexuals," we are to live with them, but not be like them, separate ourselves from them, but still love them and care for them.
As for Christianity scaring people away, is not true either. People will be scared when they here a sermon that touches their heart and actually seems right, when all along they thought this other way was right. Catholics were the ones who did the scaring. Do the witch trials ring a bell? During the time-period of the Witch Trials, Catholics would scare people to their religion by saying that if you aren't Catholic, then you are a witch.
One more thing about Catholicism. Catholics believe there are 7 sacraments. There are actually only 2 that are biblical, eucharist (communion) and baptism. One example of a sacrament that is unbiblical is Indulgences. They were brought about in the 15th or 16th century as a way to pay for the church's debt, and for the funding of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Catholic leaders made people go on a guilt trip if they didn't buy their parents out of "pergatory." And pergatory isn't even in the bible, Catholics came up with that one too. If you thorougly study the bible, you will not hear even a hint of some place such as 'pergatory.'
I could go on and on, but I think this is really really long. Hope you read this and listen, and don't just assume I'm wrong, but actually do your research.
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