Why does the symbolism matter to you so damn much? At the end of the day it is a damn cracker… Not a human body. The same cannot be said for the religions you support who actually sacrificed sentient animals. Even the comparatively more civilized Greeks practiced animal sacrifices. The Ancient Romans killed dogs as part of their animal sacrifices. A ritual called Lupercalia where a goat and a dog was killed and their blood smeared on two kids. The women were whipped across the shoulders in the belief that such an act would bestow fertility. This was not just an early Roman thing either. They practiced this ritual every year until the pope banned it in 494 AD.Lucas88 wrote: ↑May 9th, 2023, 7:46 pmSilly irrelevant argument. This has nothing to do with nationality.Outcast9428 wrote: ↑May 9th, 2023, 6:44 pmAh so you like the UK now? It is one of the least Christian countries in Europe after all. Being anti Christian is very British of you. Every British person on this forum hates Christianity and you are no exception.
I'm a seeker of truth, ex-Christian, have studied many different religions and evaluate every religion solely on the basis of its own content, not on irrelevant contemporary social trends.
For your information, I don't actually consider myself "British", by the way. I'm a human soul incarnated into a physical body and culturally a Mediterranean.
Ethnicity and religious beliefs are two different things.
The Old Testament massacres, blood sacrifices and other atrocities were committed by Jews at the behest of Yahweh. Christians (except for Gnostic Christians) worship that same deity and recognize the Old Testament as a holy scripture. You people literally worship a being who at one time ordered massacres of women and infants and even newborns. Your religion is therefore sick and perverse. So are many of its followers who knowingly condone such atrocities as "god's plan for salvation".Outcast9428 wrote: ↑May 9th, 2023, 6:44 pmYou know as well as I do that the Old Testament massacres were perpetrated by Jews, not Christians…![]()
No, your religion is a cult of blood sacrifice which believes that Jesus had to be sacrificed for the redemption of human beings from Original Sin. This is not simply a martyrdom; it's literally a blood sacrifice! Even Bible-believing Christians will tell you this. This same belief and its related communion ritual are of central significance in the Christian religion. Eating the host and drinking the wine is symbolic of consuming Christ's flesh and drinking his blood and thus partaking in the redemption offered by that same blood sacrifice. Your religion is literally just a Jewish blood sacrifice ritual at its core. This is not an exaggeration; it's the truth.Outcast9428 wrote: ↑May 9th, 2023, 6:44 pmSo Christianity is “sick” because we celebrate a martyr? You intentionally exaggerate the significance of communion rituals to make it sounds bad when it’s literally just eating a cracker and drinking some wine.
And you guys think that we're "degenerates" or could only ever be motivated by "degeneracy" for not believing in your bizarre little sacrifice cult?![]()
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But I have no doubts that you will ignore such barbaric rituals and continue whining about Christians eating crackers and drinking wine. I’m sick of your specious, disingenuous horseshit. You pretend to care about the “atrocities of Christianity” and talk about “blood sacrifices” while completely ignoring the atrocities that everybody else has committed and the utter savagery of the societies they created. The truth is you will defend any group that is opposed to Christianity regardless of the merit of the argument because of your hatred of being told the truth about what is righteous.