Nothing is stronger in human experience than our tribal nature, which is why it is so virtually impossible for people to leave their religion, which amounts to a kind of spiritual racism of the soul.
The absolute truth of religion requires it's adherents to be intolerant of accepting any other religions as equal to the one we happen to believe is "the one true faith," which only ensures (since our ever lasting soul depends on defending this proposition, lest we be roasted like hot dogs for ever in hell) that conflict will always be as common to us as breathing.
Catholics deny this, of course, insisting instead that the conflicts in the world are the result of "original sin," which is a convenient "sickness" of the soul, so they claim, that can only be washed away by religion, for the most part.
That Christianity has used it's "absolute truth" claims to justify the killing of Native Americans, Jews, women, the enslavement and murder of African slaves prior to the Civil War and the lynching and constant discrimination and terror of Africa Americans thereafter, right up to the present day in fact, as well as decades of child rape, and more, is no more evidence to the Christian that there is anything seriously wrong with Christianity on the whole, than the mountains of scientific evidence that everywhere demonstrates the effects that human rapaciousness on our planet is evidence that there is anything seriously wrong with our climate.
Why?
It's simple, for the same reason that so many Christians who claim we must be selfless in our dealings with each other support an economic system that requires everyone to be as selfish as humanly possible.
They cannot escape their tribe of the lie called truth.
The absolute truth of religion requires it's adherents to be intolerant of accepting any other religions as equal to the one we happen to believe is "the one true faith," which only ensures (since our ever lasting soul depends on defending this proposition, lest we be roasted like hot dogs for ever in hell) that conflict will always be as common to us as breathing.
Catholics deny this, of course, insisting instead that the conflicts in the world are the result of "original sin," which is a convenient "sickness" of the soul, so they claim, that can only be washed away by religion, for the most part.
That Christianity has used it's "absolute truth" claims to justify the killing of Native Americans, Jews, women, the enslavement and murder of African slaves prior to the Civil War and the lynching and constant discrimination and terror of Africa Americans thereafter, right up to the present day in fact, as well as decades of child rape, and more, is no more evidence to the Christian that there is anything seriously wrong with Christianity on the whole, than the mountains of scientific evidence that everywhere demonstrates the effects that human rapaciousness on our planet is evidence that there is anything seriously wrong with our climate.
Why?
It's simple, for the same reason that so many Christians who claim we must be selfless in our dealings with each other support an economic system that requires everyone to be as selfish as humanly possible.
They cannot escape their tribe of the lie called truth.
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