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“Religions persist because most people prefer to be told what to believe.”
- Xenocrates
Most of the world’s religions, including Christianity, can be traced back to the same sources, causes and primary elements that were passed down from generation to generation - each adding their own twist to a growing mythology. This, the final chapter of Christianity on Trial will attempt to critically examine almost everything you’ve come to believe in with merciless, academic precision. I will clinically reduce it’s core concepts to elementary causation and systematically expose it for what it really is. When I’m done, I dare you to continue believing what you believe. This post will succinctly reaffirm every ounce of doubt you ever had and cause you here on after, to think like I do - never taking anything you hear for granted ever again. Can you handle the truth? Are you ready to see what I want to show you?
WARNING: This particular entry doesn’t respect any sacred lines. It doesn’t pull any punches and it is not aimed at being politically correct. If you’re not a critical thinker, then this information may either shock or offend your sensibilities if you haven’t heard it all before. All of the information presented here can be researched and verified on your own. In fact, I encourage you to not accept anything you read here. I am very confident that if you did your own research, you will come to very similar if not exactly the same conclusions. Read on if you dare.
“To the simple minded, perception is more meaningful than reality.”
- Xenocrates
If you’ve been following me so far, you may either be of the opinion that I have a chip on my shoulder or that I’m an atheist. Rest assured, I’m neither. If you had any such opinion, then you’re probably one of those Christians who is of the opinion that dogma is unquestionable and that perhaps it is blasphemous to do so. In that case, I urge you to turn your Bible to 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (see? I even hotlinked it for you so you don’t have to pick up the book). Now that you’ve read it, if you can find another scripture in the Bible that proves that I’m being blasphemous, then I will be acquitted, since that proves that the Bible contradicts itself, which would mean that it’s not a book of truth, which would mean that I’m not committing blasphemy, which would mean that I’m right, you’re wrong and only one of us is an idiot. Yay me. If that’s the case, you can stop reading right here and go back to watching Benny Hinn make a fool out of Christians all over the world.
However, since you and I know that’s not the case, and you still feel compelled to hold on to what you believe, then I’m with you. However, there’s just a few additional things you need to know about what you think you believe. When you’re done reading this, I want you to take a long hard look at what you believe and be honest with yourself: Are you following the truth, or only a perception of it?
“Two billion people believing the same lie doesn’t make it any less of a lie.”
- Xenocrates
One of the key dangers of religion is the fact that it operates based on lack of proof. This means that anyone can reinvent religious dogma and people will still buy it, because it doesn’t need proof for credibility. So imagine a church congregation packed with believers who’ve just sung a heart warming hymn. It is now that time in the service for the sermon to be ministered. The preacher steps up to the podium and proceeds to elucidate the congregation about things in the Bible they probably already know about. However, today, he decides to take a few liberties with the text, spinning his own version of the “truth” to the audience. Nobody in the congregation knows any better, since they assume that the pastor must know what he’s talking about. Everybody just nods “amen” until the altar call and the service wraps. They close their Bibles, go home, and forget at least half of what was said earlier that day. It is those who don’t forget and dare to question the pastor’s logic who are often considered outcasts and heretics. How dare you think differently? They are told: “Don’t question it! Just have faith! God moves in mysterious ways…blah, blah, blah“… Stop me if this is sounding all too familiar.
If you can identify with anything in the above paragraph, then this post is for you. Read on, wayfaring stranger.
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