I saw a clip of Jewish man, an academic in some field, history I think, commenting on Christianity, including medieval Christianity. He acknowledged that Christianity brought a more peaceful, ordered society. Consider the track record over the past few hundred years or so of what happens when atheists run governments. They slaughter multitudes of innocent people. We see this in the French Revolution, with the Russians and Chinese. We could look at other religions, like how Hindu-dominated India used to kill widows or pressure them to die. The Norse used to sacrifice people, also. Look at the middle east.Contrarian Expatriate wrote:This is not a question of Christians bothering me personally. It is a question of the negative role religious faith plays in the world and in suspending peoples' thinking processes. Trying to make this about ME trivializes the issue when it is larger than you can imagine.MrMan wrote:Contrarian Expat,
Maybe you should ask yourself why Christians and their message bother you so much. Also, why would you consider that anger-filled diatribe from the guy who hated the street preacher to be worth posting.
Honestly, I'm not very impressed with your thinking process on this issue. You keep posting emotional videos, not well-reasoned ones, like the angry man who hated the street preacher. Who wants to be around someone fuming like that? You seem to be obsessed with emotional reasons rather than logical ones. There are plenty of scientific reasons from the field of physics, for example, to believe in God. Some astrophysicists have resorted to elaborate sci-fi explanations that have no evidence to back them up, like the idea of a comic book multiverse, to explain away the evidence for design in the universe.
Warning people of the judgment to come is a good thing to do. You've also got your facts wrong. The idea of red demons with pitch forks is something found in pop culture, not a belief found in the Bible, and I've never heard of a theologian promoting the idea. It's something you saw on a can of ham and you think Christians believe in it. Christians have different ideas about free will, but belief in free will and that those who choose to sin and rebel against God get punished for their sin is neither illogical or anything you should get angry about. Something else about this idea that you might be punished if you do not reconcile with God bothers you, for some reason.Christianity is evil in that is acknowledges that god grants everyone free will, but it strays into the realm of great evil by trying to scare people (not me) into thinking if they dare to exercise their free will away from Christianity, they will burn in tortuous hell among the red demons piercing their flesh with pitchforks. Really? How dare you preach this filth to children and gullible adults?