Saturday, June 20, 2015

Christianity Lite

Christianity Lite is the fine tuned cherry picking of only the parts of the bible you want to follow... all the parts about loving Jesus and your fellow humans and none of the parts like stoning non virgin wives, praying only in private, and wearing religious icons like the cross.

Once you fall into the trap of believing in God and disbelieving in evidence, it's all too easy to take it a step further and ignore the parts of the bible you don't want to follow.

Ignoring those inconvenient bible bits is part of the whole self delusion necessary to be a Christian in the modern world.
It's become a comfortable religion that doesn't require too much effort... or thought.
Doubt is the only sin and bullshit is swallowed with a shrug and a prayer.
Jesus and faith; two Christian words that magically dispel doubt for no apparent reason.

The odd part is that the further Christians get from even the common bastardised versions of the bible, and the crazier their rationalisation get for disproven bible stories, the more loudly they seem to proclaim that the bible is the ultimate truth, as if volume and vehemence is akin to proof.
They're becoming caricatures; angry, frothy mouthed zealots who live against the words of Jesus instead of with them, then loudly proclaim, "We'll do as we please because Jesus!"

Christianity Lite is like Beer lite; you can get drunk on it, but you have to swallow a lot of crap.

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