In a sense, religion teaches people that reality is a form of hypnosis, designed to lure people into hell with all the temptations of being human, and that a super-reality exists that defines for us how we should behave in this reality, and all because in this reality, if people were unshackled from the eternal threat of divine retribution and allowed to do whatever they wanted, we would not act like animals - who's lack of a need to show their status to others by accumulating more money than they could ever spend in a thousands lifetimes, leads those different species to all follow a law of the jungle that is by far more civilized than anything religion or society has ever offered - but like demons straight out of the Christian hell.
Because the Christian believes that everyone acting like demons without a belief in God - even though Pascal pointed out that "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" - is the "natural" and inevitable result of how human beings would behave without their complete emotional and moral dependence upon God, via one man-made religion or another, we all deserve to be thrown into an eternal hell.
The only reason why we may not be thrown into that hell for being this way, is the fact that our divine "creator" has been generous enough to grant "the few who are chosen" access to the "narrow road" that leads to heaven, but only to those who can decipher an ancient text that is so cryptic that even the devil uses it to justify any evil, and humans have used it far more than anything else as the primary justification for enslaving and killing each other, by the millions, for over two thousand years.
Because the Christian believes that everyone acting like demons without a belief in God - even though Pascal pointed out that "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" - is the "natural" and inevitable result of how human beings would behave without their complete emotional and moral dependence upon God, via one man-made religion or another, we all deserve to be thrown into an eternal hell.
The only reason why we may not be thrown into that hell for being this way, is the fact that our divine "creator" has been generous enough to grant "the few who are chosen" access to the "narrow road" that leads to heaven, but only to those who can decipher an ancient text that is so cryptic that even the devil uses it to justify any evil, and humans have used it far more than anything else as the primary justification for enslaving and killing each other, by the millions, for over two thousand years.
But the God who they believe put us all here, and made us this way, should be worshiped as a supreme intelligence nonetheless, who did it all purely out of love for us, as part of a 'divine plan,' one that no one will ever understand, unless they just have faith, and simply "believe" that they do.
In fact, incredibly enough, each and every Christian also believes that no two people have ever really killed each other over what Christianity actually represents, but only over what people have been misled to think Christianity represents.
As the true believer in Christianity sees it, then, people only kill each other over what they have been mistakenly led to "think" their religion to be, but not what their religion actually is. And the reason they don't know what their religion actually is, is because they haven't understood the "truth" about the system of love and rules that said God allegedly gave to us all, almost as an afterthought, to know he is "Our father, who art in heaven" - who loves us so much that the only way he could find it in his heart to forgive us for our disobedience was by having us murder his beloved son - and not the demonic serial killer from the horror movie Saw.
And somehow, the fact that God choose to establish a religion that was so ambiguous in its teachings that it would become the primary means by which the devil lures humanity to commit evil more 'fully and joyfully' than any other means or justifications, never once causes the Christian to consider what a truly inferior and utterly failed system of conveying "truth" such a religion must necessarily be.
As the true believer in Christianity sees it, then, people only kill each other over what they have been mistakenly led to "think" their religion to be, but not what their religion actually is. And the reason they don't know what their religion actually is, is because they haven't understood the "truth" about the system of love and rules that said God allegedly gave to us all, almost as an afterthought, to know he is "Our father, who art in heaven" - who loves us so much that the only way he could find it in his heart to forgive us for our disobedience was by having us murder his beloved son - and not the demonic serial killer from the horror movie Saw.
And somehow, the fact that God choose to establish a religion that was so ambiguous in its teachings that it would become the primary means by which the devil lures humanity to commit evil more 'fully and joyfully' than any other means or justifications, never once causes the Christian to consider what a truly inferior and utterly failed system of conveying "truth" such a religion must necessarily be.
The only thing more flawed and broken than the human beings God created to be so flawed and broken, in other words, is the religion he is said to have personally tried to teach those human beings in order to fix those flaws.
Christianity casts human beings as a whole in the role of The Greatest American Hero, a 1980's sitcom about a mild mannered high school teacher whom extraterrestrials give an extraordinary red flying suit that imbues him with uncanny powers, but who then looses the instruction manual. Jesus is therefore like the Maytag repair man who then comes down to instruct people on how to use their bodies so as not to piss off the extraterrestrial who gave it to them, even though he never writes down a single word of his instructions for future generations, resulting in countless numbers of people killing and torturing each other over what He necessarily said or meant.
And all of this, even though, if Jesus really found writing so detestable that he chose not to set down a single word, He could've simply waited a couple of thousand years - which to a God who is unbound by time and space means waiting less than a nanosecond - and simply created a YouTube Channel.
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