The Christian Myth
We are so full of concepts, us human beings.
We think and pray for the right philosophies that will improve the world.
But the world never changes, we do. The world, with its impurities, remains pretty much out it had started with some people living by the rules and others not.
Yesterday, the born-again Christians cornered me in the school library, telling me that I should “Praise the Lord.”
Now it is difficult enough to live with the quiet temptations of my life without false prophets popping up to tell me that I am living my life wrong.
After having listened to Pauly’s lectures on the history of the Christian faith, the plots of the church to destroy anything but its own narrow view of the world, I am not even tempted to step back under the shelter of their imperfect faith.
These fools have destroyed women by creating Eve, and destroyed human relations by maintaining the sinfulness of sex and nearly any other human endeavor.
And if the old Christianity wasn’t bad enough with its tendency to hate, the new Christianity is worse.
Mark Twain once claimed a sharp and cruel distinction between Old and New Testaments, saying the God of the Jews did His best to make life miserable for human beings while they lived. Then came along Christ to create Hell and inflict misery on humans after death as well.
But at least early Christians believed they needed to make the world worthy of the return of Christ, doing good deeds to make earth like heaven. But this new breed thinks they are special, that people need to abandon this world and become acceptable to Christ so that we might be lifted up to God’s arms while God strikes down the rest of the world’s sinners.
I don’t have to help my neighbor. I don’t have to perform good deeds. I merely have to profess that I believe the Lord Jesus Christ is my savior and I become a member of the club.
I’m sorry, I tell my would be saviors. I want people to make this world a better place, to work towards human decency not a pack of Christian cowards who will run and hide from the world’s problems and wait for the train to arrive to transport them out of their worldly troubles.
Humans are just not decent, of course. That's why there's a spiritual world.
We can’t always rely on society to guard us against doing bad things. Like Twain's honest town, in which the honest were only honest until they were tested, and then failed.
The born-again Christians have good concepts, but they've been tried, and have failed, or perhaps they have never honestly tried.
Christ never intended to create a religion. He just wanted people to be good to each other.
To me,
My Christian friends try to tell me we are all God’s instruments, and I argue back, why Christians do so little to actually help fellow human beings.
They forget that we live in a real world, where the problems must be cured by real solutions.
But they are like children, believing whatever they are told, relying on some parent figure to carry them away from danger. What scares me is that they will sooner or later find some new Constantine, who will twist their faith for some political purpose – despite the fact that this small club is made up of supposedly self-aware college students.
This is what scares me about the possibility
of Ronald Reagan becoming president – to me, he is as evil as