I have a growing animosity for Churchians.
Apparently church attendance in America began falling as early as the end of the 19th century. To combat this, priests would resort to feminist shaming language in order to get more females to attend, who would then bully their families into joining them. Hence churches over time became natural vehicles to spread the cancer of feminism.
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Jesus said there owuld be no marriage in heaven, because marriage is just an earthly contract. I believe that when God creates the New Heavens and New Earth, we coudl still be with our spouses in this life, but by then the true spiritual bond would be so perfect and beyond imagination that there would be no more need for marriage, as marriage would be totally dimmed in comparison. Once we enter the new world we will have glorified bodies and everything is going to be different. Now we can only hope.
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Good post, I feel your pain.
Religion has been corrupted by the elites of the conservative wing. I don't think Jesus would be down with using depleted uranium infused explosive devices to obliterate cities, killing in the name of democracy (profit, really, but let's not get into that), hating homosexuals, or incarceration people endlessly for victimless crimes.
Turn the other cheek, love thy neighbor, forgive thy enemy, it is nearly impossible for the rich to enter heaven- why do the churches not preach these doctrines that are at the very heart of their savior's teachings?
Religion has been corrupted by the elites of the conservative wing. I don't think Jesus would be down with using depleted uranium infused explosive devices to obliterate cities, killing in the name of democracy (profit, really, but let's not get into that), hating homosexuals, or incarceration people endlessly for victimless crimes.
Turn the other cheek, love thy neighbor, forgive thy enemy, it is nearly impossible for the rich to enter heaven- why do the churches not preach these doctrines that are at the very heart of their savior's teachings?
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How convenient, to cherry pick the conservative deficiencies. The liberal sins of modern Christianity are far worse. As zacb mentioned, no honor in marriage, bias against men, and bitchy women.HouseMD wrote:Good post, I feel your pain.
Religion has been corrupted by the elites of the conservative wing. I don't think Jesus would be down with using depleted uranium infused explosive devices to obliterate cities, killing in the name of democracy (profit, really, but let's not get into that), hating homosexuals, or incarceration people endlessly for victimless crimes.
Turn the other cheek, love thy neighbor, forgive thy enemy, it is nearly impossible for the rich to enter heaven- why do the churches not preach these doctrines that are at the very heart of their savior's teachings?
I probably have the world's record in being banned from the most forums, so I have a lot of experience in who are the most intolerant moderators, and by far it is Christian women. Modern Christian women are absolute bitches.
Christianity is a good religion, it's too bad Christians don't practice it.
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I was raised a Southern Baptist, we were pretty serious about men being the head of the household and women being subservient. The bitchy women are more a product of society than their religion. But you are totally right about divorce- literally every member of my family from my grandparents onward has been divorced, myself included. Though it wasn't for lack of trying- I picked a charter for a wife as it turned out.fschmidt wrote:How convenient, to cherry pick the conservative deficiencies. The liberal sins of modern Christianity are far worse. As zacb mentioned, no honor in marriage, bias against men, and bitchy women.HouseMD wrote:Good post, I feel your pain.
Religion has been corrupted by the elites of the conservative wing. I don't think Jesus would be down with using depleted uranium infused explosive devices to obliterate cities, killing in the name of democracy (profit, really, but let's not get into that), hating homosexuals, or incarceration people endlessly for victimless crimes.
Turn the other cheek, love thy neighbor, forgive thy enemy, it is nearly impossible for the rich to enter heaven- why do the churches not preach these doctrines that are at the very heart of their savior's teachings?
I probably have the world's record in being banned from the most forums, so I have a lot of experience in who are the most intolerant moderators, and by far it is Christian women. Modern Christian women are absolute bitches.
Christianity is a good religion, it's too bad Christians don't practice it.
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Well, I'm not Christian, I'm Jewish. But I studied a little Christian history, so let me try to provide a diagnosis for the affliction of modern Christian women. You are right that the bitchy ideas are a product of society, but the self-righteousness is a product of modern Christianity. Combined the two, and you get a self-righteous bitch which is a really awful thing.HouseMD wrote:I was raised a Southern Baptist, we were pretty serious about men being the head of the household and women being subservient. The bitchy women are more a product of society than their religion. But you are totally right about divorce- literally every member of my family from my grandparents onward has been divorced, myself included. Though it wasn't for lack of trying- I picked a charter for a wife as it turned out.
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I agree with your assessment. The entitled and materialistic western culture coupled with prosperity preaching, the overly sexual media paired with a judgemental nature toward all things sexual, a hyper violent media and culture paired with a thou shalt not kill (unless they're terrorists!) message...fschmidt wrote:Well, I'm not Christian, I'm Jewish. But I studied a little Christian history, so let me try to provide a diagnosis for the affliction of modern Christian women. You are right that the bitchy ideas are a product of society, but the self-righteousness is a product of modern Christianity. Combined the two, and you get a self-righteous bitch which is a really awful thing.HouseMD wrote:I was raised a Southern Baptist, we were pretty serious about men being the head of the household and women being subservient. The bitchy women are more a product of society than their religion. But you are totally right about divorce- literally every member of my family from my grandparents onward has been divorced, myself included. Though it wasn't for lack of trying- I picked a charter for a wife as it turned out.
Conflicting messages lead to cognitive dissonance, which I believe to be the root of many of society's ills, within Christianity and beyond.
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This all makes sense to me, so maybe we agree on more than I thought. So then what is your solution to the churchian dilema? What do you suggest for someone who wants a moral religion?HouseMD wrote:I agree with your assessment. The entitled and materialistic western culture coupled with prosperity preaching, the overly sexual media paired with a judgemental nature toward all things sexual, a hyper violent media and culture paired with a thou shalt not kill (unless they're terrorists!) message...
Conflicting messages lead to cognitive dissonance, which I believe to be the root of many of society's ills, within Christianity and beyond.
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I hate to quibble when I agree with the guy's larger point, but:Halwick wrote:
"Churchians". An interesting moniker.
I have found Christianity (and most of its variants and sects) and their clergy to be hypocritical.
Take one of the Commandments: "Thou Shalt Not Kill". We are taught that it is immoral to kill, yet the Christians invented the word, "Malicide" which means "killing in the name of God." You'll find more wars have been fought in the name of "God" than any other factor. During World War II, there was a popular song, "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition."
The Old Testament is full of stories that portrays God not as a loving, forgiving and gentle being, but a vain, vindictive, selfish, sadistic and bloodthirsty being. For example, God's treatment of Job, God turning Lot's wife into a pillar of salt for disobeying Him, and ordering two she-bears to kill children who made fun of Elisha's baldness. These are just a few examples.
The Puritans imposed their sense of "morality" with regards to sex and the resultant is the most psychologically maladjusted people on Earth. They also nearly destroyed the Polynesian culture because it did not conform to their sense of "morality".
Intolerance of other beliefs and ideas: The case of Galileo and other people who contradicted the Catholics are well documented. The Spanish Inquisition and the Puritans killing of innocent people accused of being "witches".
It seems that wherever you have a dominant Catholic Church presence, you'll find poverty, e.g., Latin America and the Philippines. Yet the Catholic Church and the clergy lives in luxury and amasses millions in property.
But you're right....a good idea gone corrupt by misapplication and misinterpretation.
Galileo was a believing Catholic Christian, and remained so. He WAS banned from teaching by the university where he was employed. Oh the horror! Non-Christians today don't even want a believing Christian teaching basic Creation.
And re "witches" -- I do NOT know that the idiot PROTESTANTS in Salem hanged the RIGHT perps -- but there certainly WERE witches present there. Read about it. And the coven there certainly survived -- again, easy to google and read about.
Re the Inquisition, it was founded to ferret out the crypto-Moslems and their collaborators the crypto-Jews who continued to infest Spain after their expulsion in 1492. Praise God, it worked. After 800 years of Moslem occupation (with Jew collaboration), finally, Spain remained free.
I realize you guys hear a lot of propaganda, but you have to develop a sense of smell, to detect the bullshit.
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Sadly, Zac, Ghost's tongue-in-cheek suggestion is right. The time has come for men to asert what they believe heedless of the established structures and claptrap.Ghost wrote:
I propose a new term for western "christianity" that reflects it gyno-centric immorality. How about vaginanity?
Churchianity is nothing more than a corruption of something that was once good. It's among the branches of the liberal feminist death cult. And the (false) church does enforce morality...but for men only, of course. That is to say it is not moral at all. Only male adultery is evil. Only male laziness is evil. Only sins done by males count. Maybe this would be the best way to pillage modern culture: become a church leader, start your own church, or whatever. Then you can gain status, p***y, money, and power.
If you believe, YOU are the "church".
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Biblical submission is more like loyalty and devotion. It must be out of love, not fear. Also, the church in the 1st century was a gathering of believers, while today it is mainly seen as a building. Read the Book of Acts if you want to find out.
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I study religion on my own nowadays. Organized religion creates self serving power structures that lead inevitably to corruption of doctrines and beliefs for the personal gain of those at the top. I have very much faith in God, but very little in men claiming to speak for him. You can easily find faith with moral grounding, just don't look for it in buildings that sap wealth from the destitute in the name of God.fschmidt wrote:This all makes sense to me, so maybe we agree on more than I thought. So then what is your solution to the churchian dilema? What do you suggest for someone who wants a moral religion?HouseMD wrote:I agree with your assessment. The entitled and materialistic western culture coupled with prosperity preaching, the overly sexual media paired with a judgemental nature toward all things sexual, a hyper violent media and culture paired with a thou shalt not kill (unless they're terrorists!) message...
Conflicting messages lead to cognitive dissonance, which I believe to be the root of many of society's ills, within Christianity and beyond.
Read the Bible or Torah or whatever Holy book speaks to you, learn a good deal of history to give it all a proper context, and draw your own conclusions using reason and the holy words before you. Live a good, principled life, and pay for the best as you work hard to earn it. Be the best person you can be, and perhaps, if there is salvation and prosperity to be had, it will be yours. It certainly won't come from listening to the sermons of some thrice divorced fraud in an Armani suit that drives a BMW and asks for 10 percent of your income, all the whole claiming taxation is horrible and evil.
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Here we really disagree. I consider religion and morality to be worse than useless outside a religious community. Please read this post of mine that explains and tell me what you think.HouseMD wrote:I study religion on my own nowadays. Organized religion creates self serving power structures that lead inevitably to corruption of doctrines and beliefs for the personal gain of those at the top. I have very much faith in God, but very little in men claiming to speak for him. You can easily find faith with moral grounding, just don't look for it in buildings that sap wealth from the destitute in the name of God.
Read the Bible or Torah or whatever Holy book speaks to you, learn a good deal of history to give it all a proper context, and draw your own conclusions using reason and the holy words before you. Live a good, principled life, and pay for the best as you work hard to earn it. Be the best person you can be, and perhaps, if there is salvation and prosperity to be had, it will be yours. It certainly won't come from listening to the sermons of some thrice divorced fraud in an Armani suit that drives a BMW and asks for 10 percent of your income, all the whole claiming taxation is horrible and evil.
http://www.biblicjudaism.org/Support-Yo ... -tp42.html
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I do not take all of my spiritual knowledge from biblical teachings. Chief among my acquired beliefs is a belief in karma, be it by God's doing our as a natural law. You get what you give in this world, and by doing good, even in isolation, good things will come to you. Just because the world has gone to shit does not mean I should allow myself to do so as well. Sure, my almost naive belief in always doing the right thing gas cost me here and there. But ultimately, I have gained far more than I have lost. I am well trusted and respected. I sleep well at night and feel content to know that I live a life of purpose and meaning. No matter how awful the world becomes, I will know it has not claimed me as it's victim.fschmidt wrote:Here we really disagree. I consider religion and morality to be worse than useless outside a religious community. Please read this post of mine that explains and tell me what you think.HouseMD wrote:I study religion on my own nowadays. Organized religion creates self serving power structures that lead inevitably to corruption of doctrines and beliefs for the personal gain of those at the top. I have very much faith in God, but very little in men claiming to speak for him. You can easily find faith with moral grounding, just don't look for it in buildings that sap wealth from the destitute in the name of God.
Read the Bible or Torah or whatever Holy book speaks to you, learn a good deal of history to give it all a proper context, and draw your own conclusions using reason and the holy words before you. Live a good, principled life, and pay for the best as you work hard to earn it. Be the best person you can be, and perhaps, if there is salvation and prosperity to be had, it will be yours. It certainly won't come from listening to the sermons of some thrice divorced fraud in an Armani suit that drives a BMW and asks for 10 percent of your income, all the whole claiming taxation is horrible and evil.
http://www.biblicjudaism.org/Support-Yo ... -tp42.html
I am happy, content, and live a life of meaning. No life of hedonism could provide me with that. No amount of drugs and sex and superficial pleasure could give me a good night's rest nor a sense of accomplishment. So come hell or high water, I will keep to my morals and God. When I lose them, I will have lost that which makes me a man, rendered no better than an animal.
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