Christians have a love affair with pain, violence, and suffering.That addiction is reflected in their most sacred of symbols - the crucifix. And through a kind of hypnosis of continually reading a "sacred" book where violence is God's vehicle for sanctifying the sinful into the eternally saved, Christians associate the pain and suffering that leads to death,with the sexual instinct that leads to life. Christians believe in places like hell, an eternal torture chamber for all those who dare to reject their "beliefs" as either false or at least flawed, even though there are currently over 42,000 variations of the Christian brand of "faith." Many of these different brands believe that all of the other brands are false, and that those who have yet to realize their own faith-brand of Christianity is false or flawed deserve to be cast into eternal flames, where they will - and even should! - suffer for all eternity for their mistake. And this is the whole
The object of Christianity is to erase what makes you a uniquely human individual in order to turn you into a walking cookie-cutout billboard for your religious brand. Christianity, in this sense, teaches you to think that everything about your human nature is evil, especially anything that makes you uniquely you, except for your ability to obey Christianity. If you can obey Christianity more than others, you'll become a saint. The Christian believes that their ability to choose being Christian over being merely human is a choice that they make, the reward for which is eternal paradise. And anyone who makes any other choice, even if you're just a child, deserves to be tortured for all eternity by a "loving" God, for having failed to use their "free will" to make the right choice. This doesn't mean the Christian doesn't feel a need or desire to try and distinguish themselves from other Christians, however. Indeed, the Christian has their vanity t