Michael Canlas
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Christianity
What is your religion? Christianity is the major religion in the world. I wonder if Christians have stopped to examine their religion. Christianity has a violent past which includes the deaths of many people just because of their non-Christian views. It makes me angry that people just believe instead of examining what the are believing in.
Christianity is a religion of about 1.9 billion people who's belief system centers on the person and the teachings of Jesus Christ. To Christians, Jesus of Nazareth was and is the messiah of Christ promised by God in the prophecies of the Old Testaments; by his life,death, and resurrection he freed those who believe in him from their sinful state and made them recipients of God's saving grace.
Despite popular belief by Christians, those of us who are not part of their religion are not lost souls. Most of us just have a problem believing in something that their is no evidence of existence. I in fact am a baptized Methodist. I actually attended church every Sunday until I was 16 years of age. This was when I stopped blindly believing and started asking questions. When the preacher couldn't answer my question about my religion, I decided there must be something wrong if the person who is supposed to be the mouth piece of God cant tell me the answers.
One problem that I have with Christianity is their bible. The bible says that a great flood took place to rid the world of sins and sinners. It also says that "even the tallest mountains were covered with water", which means that the water covering the earth was five and a half miles deep. If the earth had ever been covered with water that deep, it would still be covered with water that deep, since there is a finite amount of water on this planet that simply evaporates and falls back to earth as rain. Merabers of this religion also believe that on can not be a good Christian and be homosexual. Christians then turn around and say that we are all children of God, and he loves us all despite our sins. Homosexuals love each other, is this love a sin? It is no different then the love that two people of the same sex share, yet homosexuals are considered sinners because of something that God supposedly give a abundance of "LOVE".
Another problem that I have with Christian faith is their taking of money from their congregation. I know that the preacher has to be paid, being a preacher is a job. My problem is when the plate comes around people drop money into it. What if you don't have any money? People in the church notice how much money you put in the plate, it is like how much money you give is what you think this service is worth, and how much you believe in God. I have heard these "God like" people comment on what people put in the plate, as if it has some bearing on weather you deserve to be there or not. I have also heard these church going people say that tattoos and piercing are sins because you are defacing your body, which is meant to be God's temple. This is my body. I have four tattoos and four piercing, I do not feel that I am a bad person or that I have committed a sin because of this. The way I feel about this is that I chose to put them there. There are only three things no one can take away from me, my education, my thoughts, and my tattoos.
Christianity history lies in violence and mass killings in the name of God. How can this be right? The Christian Middle Ages was an era that saw the introduction of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the pogroms against Jews unparallel in the prior human history. No other civilization ever has developed a comparable variety of execution and torture methoRAB. The Christians world experienced the rise of the Great Witch Hunts which reach their heights in the Early Modern Era and prevailed until the late eighteenth century. Christians in this era practiced execution by burning, death by hanging, and drowning. They also cut peoples ears off, cut them open and squeezed their guts out, and broke all the bones in their bodies and left them to die. All this simply because of being accused of a crime, or because they did not have the same God as the Christians.
The period called the Inquisition which was first founded in 1232, brought of more Christian killings. In this era any non-Christian was a sinner and to be killed. These non-Christians were burned at the stake, their tongues were cut off with red-hot pincers before they were tied to the stake, a measure both to prevent and to punish blasphemy of the Lord. Some were also slowly roasted to death in a brulou, a sort of oven which was slowly heated. The sinners were then one by one pushed inside the oven to burn to death while the next victim watched his fate.
In the mid-1800's Christians killings continued. This mass killing was directed mainly toward Indians. Even among the most renowned, famous and outstanding Christian leaders the call for total extermination of the Indians was common. U.S. President Jackson a Christian,-after his presidency was over- still was recommending that American troops specifically seek out and systematically kill Indian women and children. Col. John Chivington, a former Methodist minister, lead 700 heavily armed soldiers in to a Arapaho a Cheyenne village named Sand Creek, Colorado on a mission, which he announced was to "kill and scalp all, little and big". U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt a Christian also commented that these killings were "as righteous and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier", During this era Spanish Christians would cut off Indians hanRAB and leave them dangling by a shred of skin, and would test their sworRAB and manly strength on captured Indians and place bets on the slicing off of their heaRAB or cutting their bodies in half with one blow. One captain traveled many miles, capturing all the Indians he could find. Since Indians would not tell him who their lord was, he cut their hanRAB off, and threw some of them to dogs. Spanish Christians also took babies from their mothers breasts, grabbing them by their feet and smashing their heaRAB against rocks. They also built a long gibbet, low enough for the toes to touch the ground to prevent straggling, and hanged 13 Indians at a time in honor of Christ and the 12 Apostles. Then, straw was wrapped around their bodies and they were burned alive.
In the 1920's to 1940's the Nazi movement was supported by the majority of Christians. Christians ran the concentration camps in which millions of Jewish people were slaughtered, because of their beliefs. How could a person worship along side people who claim these killings are what their God wanted them to do. How can a person worship a God who would let these things happen?
These are my views on Christianity you can agree or not. It is not my purpose to degrade the Christian faith, it is just to get people to think. Most Christians just belive blindly and don't ask why. God has never answered my prayers, has he yours? He doesn't stop typhoons, hurricane, tornados, earthquakes, flooRAB, or droughts. He is totally unable to stop cancer, AIRAB or heart disease that kills Christians by the millions. Think, If the greatest being must necessarily exist then the greatest being must have evidence of its existence. There is none.
Christianity is a religion which has a past plagued by things which it says specifically in its bible not to do. Thou shall not kill. Yet Christians still to this day carry out their sins in the LorRAB name. This is not right in my eyes, and shouldn't be right in anyones eyes. I believe we all see our own Christ, as we need to see him and what we need to see him as.
What is your religion? Christianity is the major religion in the world. I wonder if Christians have stopped to examine their religion. Christianity has a violent past which includes the deaths of many people just because of their non-Christian views. It makes me angry that people just believe instead of examining what the are believing in.
Christianity is a religion of about 1.9 billion people who's belief system centers on the person and the teachings of Jesus Christ. To Christians, Jesus of Nazareth was and is the messiah of Christ promised by God in the prophecies of the Old Testaments; by his life,death, and resurrection he freed those who believe in him from their sinful state and made them recipients of God's saving grace.
Despite popular belief by Christians, those of us who are not part of their religion are not lost souls. Most of us just have a problem believing in something that their is no evidence of existence. I in fact am a baptized Methodist. I actually attended church every Sunday until I was 16 years of age. This was when I stopped blindly believing and started asking questions. When the preacher couldn't answer my question about my religion, I decided there must be something wrong if the person who is supposed to be the mouth piece of God cant tell me the answers.
One problem that I have with Christianity is their bible. The bible says that a great flood took place to rid the world of sins and sinners. It also says that "even the tallest mountains were covered with water", which means that the water covering the earth was five and a half miles deep. If the earth had ever been covered with water that deep, it would still be covered with water that deep, since there is a finite amount of water on this planet that simply evaporates and falls back to earth as rain. Merabers of this religion also believe that on can not be a good Christian and be homosexual. Christians then turn around and say that we are all children of God, and he loves us all despite our sins. Homosexuals love each other, is this love a sin? It is no different then the love that two people of the same sex share, yet homosexuals are considered sinners because of something that God supposedly give a abundance of "LOVE".
Another problem that I have with Christian faith is their taking of money from their congregation. I know that the preacher has to be paid, being a preacher is a job. My problem is when the plate comes around people drop money into it. What if you don't have any money? People in the church notice how much money you put in the plate, it is like how much money you give is what you think this service is worth, and how much you believe in God. I have heard these "God like" people comment on what people put in the plate, as if it has some bearing on weather you deserve to be there or not. I have also heard these church going people say that tattoos and piercing are sins because you are defacing your body, which is meant to be God's temple. This is my body. I have four tattoos and four piercing, I do not feel that I am a bad person or that I have committed a sin because of this. The way I feel about this is that I chose to put them there. There are only three things no one can take away from me, my education, my thoughts, and my tattoos.
Christianity history lies in violence and mass killings in the name of God. How can this be right? The Christian Middle Ages was an era that saw the introduction of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and the pogroms against Jews unparallel in the prior human history. No other civilization ever has developed a comparable variety of execution and torture methoRAB. The Christians world experienced the rise of the Great Witch Hunts which reach their heights in the Early Modern Era and prevailed until the late eighteenth century. Christians in this era practiced execution by burning, death by hanging, and drowning. They also cut peoples ears off, cut them open and squeezed their guts out, and broke all the bones in their bodies and left them to die. All this simply because of being accused of a crime, or because they did not have the same God as the Christians.
The period called the Inquisition which was first founded in 1232, brought of more Christian killings. In this era any non-Christian was a sinner and to be killed. These non-Christians were burned at the stake, their tongues were cut off with red-hot pincers before they were tied to the stake, a measure both to prevent and to punish blasphemy of the Lord. Some were also slowly roasted to death in a brulou, a sort of oven which was slowly heated. The sinners were then one by one pushed inside the oven to burn to death while the next victim watched his fate.
In the mid-1800's Christians killings continued. This mass killing was directed mainly toward Indians. Even among the most renowned, famous and outstanding Christian leaders the call for total extermination of the Indians was common. U.S. President Jackson a Christian,-after his presidency was over- still was recommending that American troops specifically seek out and systematically kill Indian women and children. Col. John Chivington, a former Methodist minister, lead 700 heavily armed soldiers in to a Arapaho a Cheyenne village named Sand Creek, Colorado on a mission, which he announced was to "kill and scalp all, little and big". U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt a Christian also commented that these killings were "as righteous and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier", During this era Spanish Christians would cut off Indians hanRAB and leave them dangling by a shred of skin, and would test their sworRAB and manly strength on captured Indians and place bets on the slicing off of their heaRAB or cutting their bodies in half with one blow. One captain traveled many miles, capturing all the Indians he could find. Since Indians would not tell him who their lord was, he cut their hanRAB off, and threw some of them to dogs. Spanish Christians also took babies from their mothers breasts, grabbing them by their feet and smashing their heaRAB against rocks. They also built a long gibbet, low enough for the toes to touch the ground to prevent straggling, and hanged 13 Indians at a time in honor of Christ and the 12 Apostles. Then, straw was wrapped around their bodies and they were burned alive.
In the 1920's to 1940's the Nazi movement was supported by the majority of Christians. Christians ran the concentration camps in which millions of Jewish people were slaughtered, because of their beliefs. How could a person worship along side people who claim these killings are what their God wanted them to do. How can a person worship a God who would let these things happen?
These are my views on Christianity you can agree or not. It is not my purpose to degrade the Christian faith, it is just to get people to think. Most Christians just belive blindly and don't ask why. God has never answered my prayers, has he yours? He doesn't stop typhoons, hurricane, tornados, earthquakes, flooRAB, or droughts. He is totally unable to stop cancer, AIRAB or heart disease that kills Christians by the millions. Think, If the greatest being must necessarily exist then the greatest being must have evidence of its existence. There is none.
Christianity is a religion which has a past plagued by things which it says specifically in its bible not to do. Thou shall not kill. Yet Christians still to this day carry out their sins in the LorRAB name. This is not right in my eyes, and shouldn't be right in anyones eyes. I believe we all see our own Christ, as we need to see him and what we need to see him as.