Christianity is a sickness. Like a virus.
In genetics, a frequently encountered problem is the unintentional mutation of healthy, living cells into horrific, deadly viruses. The root cause of this mutation is attempting to warp and change a cell that was already healthy and functional to suit a preconceived purpose.
Just like those healthy cells, the teachings of Christ (or Moses or Mohammed, but I won’t go into that) were healthy and good and pure. His message was the simplest that anyone could have ever offered. His message was love. Love one another.
“‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.” (Jesus Christ-Matthew 22:36-40)
Those are Jesus’ own words from the new testament. And he literally says, “The ENTIRE LAW and ALL THE DEMANDS of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
Out of the mouth of Jesus Christ himself, the only thing you have to remember, the most important thing you have to do, love God and love those around you. That is the simplest religion ever conceived. Just love.
But just like the healthy, living cells, people felt the need to warp those words, to change them. Because they had a purpose.
Racism, Discrimination, War, Money, Power, Fear. These are the words that describe the mutated virus that Christianity has become.
“I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good… Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called on by God to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time. We don’t want pluralism.”
Randall Terry, The News Sentinel, (Ft. Wayne, IN.), 8/16/93
“Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than Jehovah. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody’s pseudo-right to worship an idol.”
—Rev. Joseph Morecraft, Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, “Biblical Role of Civil Government” speech given 8/31/93 at Biblical Worldview and Christian Education
“When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil.”
—Gary Potter, president of Catholics for Christian Political Action
“I don’t know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.”
—President George Bush, August 27, 1988
“A religion that doesn’t discriminate wouldn’t exist, because it wouldn’t stand for anything.”
—Janet Parshall, Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch Radio Commentary,” Sept. 1, 2000 - Comments about a church firing a lesbian worker
“The end goal of gay activism is the criminalization of Christianity.”
—Robert H. Knight, Director of Cultural Studies at FRC
“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s charioteers.”
—Jerry Falwell
“I am not ready to give this great nation over to one-world government extremists…radical, disease-carrying homosexuals…or anti-family lesbian feminists…or hate-mongering atheists who despise our religious beliefs…or the ACLU who would deny us our free speech rights…or anti-American U.N. globalists!”
—A February 2000 mailing from the Christian Action Network soliciting support to help conservatives keep control of Congress.
“The real liberators of American women were not the feminist noise-makers, they were the automobile, the supermarket, the shopping center, the dishwasher, the washer-dryer, the freezer.”
—Pat Buchanan, “Right from the Beginning,” p. 149
“How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?”
—Pat Buchanan, discussing affirmative action (01/23/95)
“When I, or people like me, are running the country, you’d better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we’ll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed.”
—Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, speaking of doctors who perform abortions, in an address to the U.S. Taxpayers Alliance, 8/08/95
These are your Christians. These are your religious leaders. Talking about how good it is to hate. Discriminating proudly against Homosexuals, women, race that aren’t white, atheists, scientists and doctors. In the last quote, Mr. Randell Terry actually said he would take part in the EXECUTION of doctors who perform abortions.
As a final quote, I saw this on the facebook status of a person who is member of a church that I was formerly a member of…
“Same sex marriage now legal in Washington, D.C. Have they forgot what happened to Sodom & Gomorria?”
Hateful filth! This is the EXACT OPPISIT of the teaching of Jesus Christ. The man that you claim is your God. All of this is sick twisted hate filled filth. This is what YOUR CHRIST thought about your judgmental ways.
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, andwith the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.” (Matthew 7:1-5)
Christianity is a disease festering and filling our world and particularly the United States with hate and intolerance. Again quoting the words of Jesus Christ
“You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? (Matthew 5:43-47 )
Even if as a Christian you disagree with homosexuality or atheism or any other number of things, your own Christ tells you to LOVE those very people. Love them. That is right back to his original message.
I grew up in church. And I am an atheist. I have read the Bible cover to cover multiple times (more than can be said for a lot of Christians) and I am repeatedly and continually sickened by Christians and their hate.
In closing I will leave you once again with the words of the one you claim is your God. I personally believe that the teachings of Christ are powerful and important. But I don’t know that I have ever seen a Christian that lives by them.
1Then Jesus(A) said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2(B) “The scribes and the Pharisees(C) sit on Moses’ seat, 3so practice and observe whatever they tell you—(D) but not what they do.(E) For they preach, but do not practice. 4(F) They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear,[a] and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. 5(G) They do all their deeds(H) to be seen by others. For they make(I) their phylacteries broad and(J) their fringes long, 6and they(K) love the place of honor at feasts and(L) the best seats in the synagogues 7and(M) greetings in(N) the marketplaces and being called(O) rabbi[b] by others. 8(P) But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are(Q) all brothers.[c]9(R) And call no man your father on earth, for(S) you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor,(T) the Christ. 11(U) The greatest among you shall be your servant. 12(V) Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
13“But woe(W) to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you(X) shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you(Y) neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[d]15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single(Z) proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a(AA) child of(AB) hell[e] as yourselves.
16“Woe to(AC) you,(AD) blind guides, who say,(AE) ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ 17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or(AF) the temple that has made the gold sacred? 18And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by(AG) the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ 19You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or(AH) the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by(AI) him who dwells in it. 22And whoever swears by(AJ) heaven swears by(AK) the throne of God and by(AL) him who sits upon it.
23(AM) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For(AN) you tithe mint and dill and(AO) cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law:(AP) justice and mercy and faithfulness.(AQ) These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing(AR) a camel!
25(AS) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For(AT) you clean the outside of(AU) the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of(AV) greed and self-indulgence. 26You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of(AW) the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
27(AX) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like(AY) whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and(AZ) all uncleanness. 28So you also(BA) outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of(BB) hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29(BC) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, 30saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31Thus you witness against yourselves that you are(BD) sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32(BE) Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33You serpents,(BF) you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to(BG) hell? 34(BH) Therefore(BI) I send you(BJ) prophets and wise men and(BK) scribes,(BL) some of whom you will kill and crucify, and(BM) some you will(BN) flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35so that on you may come all(BO) the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent(BP) Abel to the blood of(BQ) Zechariah the son of Barachiah,[f] whom you murdered between(BR) the sanctuary and(BS) the altar. 36Truly, I say to you,(BT) all these things will come upon this generation.
37(BU) “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that(BV) kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have(BW) gathered(BX) your children together(BY) as a hen gathers her brood(BZ) under her wings, and(CA) you would not! 38See,(CB) your house is left to you desolate. 39For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say,(CC) ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”
