1. Christianity is by definition satanic, since satan is the invention of roman catholicism.
2. Christianity is by definition a war cult, since yahweh is a god of wrath who authorizes genocide.
3. Christianity is by definition a death cult, since it is based around the supposition of rightness to kill. This is played out repeatedly in all forms; the religion is invariably used as rationalizations for murder, genocide, slavery, capital punishment, and etc.
4. Anti -Female
5. Anti Environmental
6. Ant-intellectual
7. Anti Science
8. Christianity is really a mental cage created to deprive people of genuine spiritual experiences so that spirituality can then be sold back to peasants who are thus controlled psychologically. Christianity is christs worst nightmare; the money changers married to the temple. It exists to fleece people of their money, their genuine spiritual connectivity, and their own capacity for original or creative thought.

8.1 Atheism, Agnosticism, Satanism, and Anarchism are all rebellious movements that take the creation of dissassociation from god and the requisite need for religious "belief"
and turn it inside out; by denying belief, they deny thus god, and are completely left out in the cold by their own reasoning. Their cheap rebellion is Christianity minus spirituality.

9. The bible is a patent rip off and a politically motivated con artists propaganda masterpeice, which was cobbled together by cherry picking the evidence of better than ten times the presented original material, and an obvious ripoff of the tanakh.

10. Christian logic is circular and two dimensional

11. Christians appear to worship ignorance... "ignorance is strength"...

>> its not enough just to call christianity names <<

But it is an excellent starting point.

I've been thinking more on this lately, and while I'm not sure if I can yet answer any of your new questions, Prometheus, I do think I know how it started.

Perhaps Christianity was an attempt to create world peace.
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that is what yeshua intended.
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An undoubtedly desirable and honorable, but also difficult, goal. IF the entire world WERE to believe in one thing, be it Christianity or otherwise, it WOULD unite everyone in the world in some way. That would be an excellent first step to world peace, but still far from it. Perhaps it was an attempt to unite everyone in a way that everyone would have the same morals, the same desires, the same view of the world, etc., which is a wonderful idea, and would certainly make the world an easier place to live if it were true, but beliefs are not something you can force. Beliefs, while you can "choose" them because there are many to choose from, you can't just say, "I think I'm going to be Christian today," and really be able to pull it off. You have to feel good about something to believe in it; it has to make sense to you before you can put faith in it, and what does and doesn't make sense is something that is purely subjective to each individual -
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originally, christianity was a very scientific approach that did not require belief because it provided an accurate means to obtain real
results. beliefs come into this late in the game; beliefs are a way to keep people from having a genuine spiritual experience.
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that's why we have so many different religious viewpoints in the first place.

It was a nice idea, but much too "simple" a solution for such a complicated goal.
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in defense of yeshua, i think if they had implemented what he actually preached, we would be in a very different place.
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And many of us fail to understand, we already DO have at least one thing in common - we are all human. That, in itself, should merit that every human deserves the same respect as the next. Individuals can certainly manipulate others' levels of respect for them through their actions, but this is something that would take place after two people get to know each other. From the get go, everyone should be worthy of as much respect as anyone else, until they prove otherwise. You know - innocent until proven guilty.
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pan> thats a difficult problem in the modern era. Dishing out what others do is an unsavory task.
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How did it go wrong? We did it - humans did it. We tend to screw up anything we get our hands on. I don't know how we do it, but we're damn good at it.
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I think it was pretty much greed and politics, simple stuff. That and fear.

the romans screwed everything up pretty much on purpose.

jamie; the yeshua ben yeoseph story was mixed liberally with the paganism of the romans. having a birthday on either
december 25-31 or may 1 or so is the first qualifier to make one eligible for god hood under those pagan systems.

Christs alleged birthday is really DionYSIUSes birthday, conveniently transferred over in the creation of the christ myth.

thats an interesting question, but doesn't actually fall in the perview of the topic at hand.

and beleif or disbeleif is itself not entropic.

behaviors which stem from beleifs and which are justified by belief systems are.

Well there are no spiritual objectives. So if you want to strip it right back to the bare bones that goal is another flaw.
An unattainable goal with no confirmable objectives or truths will naturally schism as seperate sub groups come to different 'truths' and understandings and will lead to conflict.

This is true of almost any unevidenced belief system though, not specific to Christianity and can be expressed in precisely the way I did before.

The problem is they believe in god.

so, i ask you all again, esp you grim; provide the list.

a nice list of threads would be nice even.