How Christianity Changes How We See Ourselves & Each Other

  Christianity changes how we see both ourselves and other people. And not for the better.

 Rather than seeing human beings as being born as innocent as Jesus, Christianity wants us to believe that almighty God choose instead to ensure that those whom he had made in his own image and likeness were all born infected with an inherent desire to act in the image and likeness of Satan. And he did so, according to Christianity, in order to determine whom of us is worthy of forgiveness for spending their life stuggling to resist the sinful infection of their pre-programmed sin-stained souls, and whom of us deserves to be turned into an everlasting charcoal briquette. 

 God freely allowed the devil to pass onto us his own sinful nature, so the story goes, even though any father who threw their infant into a poisonous snake infested garden would be guilty of both child abuse and attempted murder.

 With this story, Christianity sees homo sapiens not as the apex of all creation, ends in and of themselves, but play things of the gods that operate as simply a means to an end. 

In fact, Christianity wants every human being on the planet to see themselves as something that must spend their whole life apologizing and and begging for forgiveness, as if we were born to never feel worthy enough just to be here. Indeed, there is no greater form of disrespect to whatever process of chance gave us life than to insist on an eternal afterlife that is infinitely better than this one. 

What "end" are human beings therefore seen to be merely a means to achieving in this life?  The worship of one brand of God or another, even though we are forever warring with each other, and even our selves, about which one is real and which one is fiction, based on the brand of "faith" that happens to fit our tastes and experiences at any given time in our lives. 

The reason human beings are mere means to worshiping one brand of God or another is because all of those Gods, despite being seen as all powerful by their believers, are nevertheless also completely powerless to either create human beings without a  preprogrammed preference for sinning (i.e., offending and angering the God who created them that way), or to influence the majority of us to stop warring with each other over our religious beliefs about those "Gods," even as they all claim to be religions of "peace." 

Indeed, Christianity transforms us  from being people who see ourselves as deserving of our own love because we are pure innocence, to people who see ourselves as being only worthy of divine love if we accept that we must be forgiven for a sinful nature we had no say in designing for ourselves. As a result, we change from people who treat others as we wish others would treat us, to being people we treat in a way we think will save us from the fires of hell, which is to save us from being mistreated in the next life by a God.