To be a Christian, one must absolutely believe in the Adam and Eve story when they encountered Talking Snake next to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. To deny this story obliviates Original Sin and the entire purpose of Jesus Christ. Bye! Bye! Christianity! Christians are unknowingly the largest single Jewish sect. They do not see themselves as Jewish, but Matthew 5-17,18 says they are. Jesus merely says that they must abide by Mosaic law. How Jewish can one be? The essence of Christianity: God fathered himself and sent himself to sacrifice himself to himself to save us from himself. Christianity in a nut shell: The belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God. This is just a friendly reminder that Christianity is the only religion in the world that says being a good person doesn't matter. You can rape, murder, slice, dice, eat people as much as you want, but as long as you believe and have faith, you're guaranteed eternal life. As long as you believe in a magical Jewish zombie named Jesus, drink his blood and eat his flesh and call him "master," you can rape and murder as much as you want. Being a good person means absolutely nothing because, in the Christian religion, morality is irrelevant. This also means that in the Christian afterlife, people aren't judged "fairly," as in other religions, but solely based on whether they had the "right" beliefs or not and how much faith they had in those beliefs. A good atheist who rejected Christianity on rational grounds will be consigned to the flames of hell, while history's worst mass murderers sing praises to zombie Jesus in heaven. Christianity is absolute madness. Top 10 signs you're a fundamentalist Christian You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt. You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God. Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees! You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky. You also believe that the Nephilim, the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown. You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old. You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs - though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving." While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity. You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God. You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian."

Is Christianity a cult? I think it is because of these reasons. I listed a source and added connections in parentheses. The article mentions these traits in reference to Trumpism but I think they apply to Christianity itself too A strong authoritarian leader. (God) Followers exhibiting unquestioning loyalty to the authoritarian leader. The group maintains a strong us-versus-them mentality. (The Christians are pure and anyone outside of the religion thinks that way because it's the work of satan) The group adopts views that run counter to objective fact and scientific scrutiny. The lies and alternate reality are repeated so often and so loudly that mental blocks are put up by followers who double down. Shame is used to keep people loyal and in line (eternal damnation in hell), and dissent is ridiculed. (Can't question the Bible or God's word) The leader (God) is not accountable to anyone. Group loyalty divides families and causes adherents to cut off lifelong relationships. (Right-wing evangelicals cutting off people if those people hold left-wing or any viewpoints that go against the word of the Bible) Christians claim America's social safety net must be dismantled because government is less effective than personal charity at helping the poor. Yet the American government alone has lifted more people out of poverty over the last 5 decades than the Christian Churches have over the past 5 centuries. Christians claim America's social safety net must be dismantled because government is less effective than personal charity at helping the poor. Yet the American government alone has lifted more people out of poverty over the last 5 decades than the Christian Churches have over the past 5 centuries. Conservative Christians claim the social safety net is unnecessary because personal charity is more effective at helping the poor. They point to the supposed fact that Christians donate to personal charities more than liberals, but conveniently forget that most of these charitable donations are to their churches and through tithing. Very little of it actually goes toward helping those most in need. Further, if Christian charitable donation were so effective, there wouldn't have been a need for LBJ's Great Society programs of the 1960s i.e. Medicare, Medicaid, the War on Poverty etc. Yet these programs exist, showing how ineffective Christian charity really was. Christians argue government shouldn't maintain the social safety net because governments are inherently corrupt. Yet government policy is a reflection of the morality of the citizens who choose to help their fellow man by voting for politicians that support social welfare policies and paying their taxes to governments that implement these policies. Christians reject the social safety net because they say they want smaller government, but what they really want is more government to enforce their own beliefs on others, such as banning abortion and reintroducing mandatory prayer in educational institutions. Christians believe the poor should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, without any aid whatsoever or with the help of what little is provided by their churches. This callous attitude shows that the essence of Christianity is selfishness and cruelty toward others. Helping other people through the social safety net lifts all of us and makes us richer as a society. Giving people more access to educational and job opportunities, as well as access to healthcare actually contributes to the economy, but Christian stinginess does nothing. Christianity is a militant, authoritarian and narcissistic cult bent on controlling the government and imposing unwanted religious views on fellow citizens. Far from being "meek and mild," Christians are bullies, liars, abusers, thieves and racists. People need to wake up before it's too late! The Christian churches only spread anger, hate, fear and divisiveness, just as they always have, but this time they have the technology and political influence to publicize their beliefs and make their presence felt. Fortunately Christianity is on the decline in America, with fewer and fewer people going to church with every passing year, but it's not enough. Militant Christians occupy far too many positions of power in America, particularly in Congress and on the Supreme Court. Much work remains to be done. We won't be finished until we have tossed Christianity into the dustbin of history and strengthened our bonds of social cohesion to such an extent it never rears its ugly head again in our society. Once we get enough people to realize how destructive and violent Christianity is, we'll be able to drive these Christian bigots out of power and put an end to Christianity, not only in America, but in all western societies. Hopefully this will be accomplished within our own lifetimes or that of our children. Christian nationalism in the US a belief that God has destined America, like the biblical Israel, for a special role in history, and that it will receive divine blessing or judgment depending on its obedience.

Christianity in a nutshell This is a 10 step guide to understanding Christianity: There is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent God. This God is three different persons who are simultaneously the same person (don't ask, it's a mystery). God hates sin and evil, but decides to create it anyways. God created humans and made it impossible for them to meet his standard of goodness. He also created a system where failure to meet his impossible standards will result in eternal torture. But then God decides to create a loophole : God (or God's son who is also himself) will come down to earth as a being that is 100% God and 100% man (don't ask, it's another mystery) to suffer and die so that humans can avoid eternal torture. While on earth, God will pray to himself (Luke 22:39-46), say scientifically inaccurate things (Matthew 13:31-32), make false predictions (Matthew 24:34), die for three days, and then go back to heaven. Decades after God's death, anonymous people living in foreign countries will write down contradictory (and sometimes historically inaccurate) accounts of his life and death. Failure to believe these contradictory and inaccurate stories will lead to eternal torture no matter how good, kind or merciful you were. God has refused to provide any good evidence for these claims, despite the fact that it will literally take ZERO EFFORT on his part. This is because he doesn't want to interfere with our free will (because we all know that giving people evidence to believe in something takes away their right to free will). God is perfectly good. Fear The Christians Why were we taught to fear Inquisitive minds who question every belief And not the bishops who split their tongues and crushed their bones til death? Why were we taught To fear the witch And not the person Who burned them At the stake? Why were we taught To fear the black man And not the white hooded animal Who strung them up From trees? Why were we taught To fear LGBTQ+ people And not the preacher Calling for their murder? Don’t fear the witches of the world. Fear the Christians!

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