I watched a programme last night entitled ‘Jesus camp’
The focus of the documentary was on Evangelical Christians in America and in particular their children.
The part of the show I found most disturbing was when the mother of one child fervently declaring that America was Gods Country.
I found this rather funny since if she had ever read the Bible she would have noticed there is not one mention of America in it! Plus the fact the native tribal populations had already chosen which God/Gods was Americas long before those old Christ lovers turned up.
It seems these people have a strange perception of Jesus. They seem to think that he is actually American, they seem to have no realisation that Jesus wasn’t white middle class like them and that he was in fact Middle Eastern (whatever that means!)
I have often thought this as reason why Religions are mostly Bullshit. The fact that God chose to only speak to the people in the middle east and neglected to inform the native American Indians or the tribes in Africa seems a bit strange for some all powerful omnipotent being, surely he’d just it’d let us all know about it in one go?
I personally do believe in God in some form, but I don’t believe in fundamentalist religions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism etc, these can only lead to conflict.
One religion cannot hold a monopoly on forms of worship or the path to God.
A lot of people are worried about Islamic terrorists but I am more concerned about these Christian fundamentalists.= which has seen a sharp increase in Britain as well.
Who will save us from religion?
SeasideMan
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"You know your god is made up when he hates the same people you do"
Organized religions are a massive threat to world safety. If it's not Jews vs. Muslims in the Middle East, it's Hindus against Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, different Christian sects against each other in the Balkans, Catholics against Protestants in Northern Ireland, and Christians against everyone else in Rwanda. I don't trust any of them, primarily because all of their religious books are open to such massively different interpretations. The Old Testament says Thou Shalt Not Kill, but reckons War is a good thing, and killing is OK sometimes, the New Testament was the justification for both the Spanish Inquisition and The Crusades, and the Koran says both that Islam is a religion of peace and one of war against other religions.
It's hardly surprising that we see so much trouble from the religious, most of whom want to make everyone else into copies of themselves and discourage critical thinking. They also believe there is a controlling and creating figure who can see everything and do anything, yet they can't see him (or her), feel him (or her) or detect him (or her) in any way whatsoever.
And people wonder why I'm such a huge skeptic!
Cheers, Tom.