If Christianity is man made, why does everything about it go against man’s desires? Does Christianity go against man’s desires? If so, is that evidence for Christianity? I answer this question, discussing the history of Christianity, the cognitive science of religion, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and more.
The whole “atheists can’t answer this question” and “atheists can’t explain this” thing is really getting old.
The whole “atheists can’t answer this question” and “atheists can’t explain this” thing is really getting old.
Especially when it’s just an assumption and they don’t actually ask any atheists.
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& especially when several prominent atheists instantly answer & explain ‘this’.
For every apologist that goes:
If Christianity is a man made religion then why does it go against man’s desires?
There is another that says:
God wrote his morality into our hearts, and since some biblical commandments align with our morality, that means the Bible is true
Make up your minds, folks.
That’s why the belief of the devil is so convenient for a lot of Christians.
Everything deemed good relative to their current social barometer is obviously from God, and everything they think is bad is from Satan.
And if you point out that the concept of Satan effectively arose from a lazy editor rewriting a polytheistic tale under monotheistic reform and that a deity of light having an adversary makes no sense as light’s anti-particle is just itself, you get the quintessentially Christian “well I don’t know about that” or “I’ll have to ask my pastor about that.”
To which the best you can do is offer up Upton Sinclair’s famous quote to fall on deaf ears: “Do not expect a man to understand a thing that his paycheck depends on him not understanding.”
“Thou shall not kill” - God
“What!? But that goes against my base desires!” - A “christian”
Most people have no trouble following Christianitys rules, and if you struggle without Sky Daddy watching your every move, maybe your a bad person.
i dunno. the whole glutony thing. the orgies thing. those can be kinda fun until you’re fat and have more STD’s than are known to medical science.
the reality is religion- including Christianity- is a form of social control. the rules were established specifically to control people. men, sure. but women especially.
Christianity specifically was also an amalgamation of a lot of other popular myths and religions of the time, as well as the appropriation of various popular pagan rituals like Saturnalia (Xmas), Samhain (Halloween), and Oestara (Easter). Many of the saints fall under this too.
Social control + wrangling popular myths/legends/etc = the most perfectly profitable control mechanism for roughly 2000 years
Sex besides and before marriage and same sex partners are not avoidable desires like killing
