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Christianity is based on dishonesty. The Christian appeal to fear, to cowardice, is an admission that the evidence supporting Christian beliefs is far from compelling. If the evidence were such that Christianity�s truth was immediately apparent to anyone who considered it, Christians—including those who wrote the Gospels—would feel no need to resort to the cheap tactic of using fear-inducing threats to inspire "belief." ("Lip service" is a more accurate term.) That the Christian clergy have been more than willing to accept such lip service (plus the dollars and obedience that go with it) in place of genuine belief, is an additional indictment of the basic dishonesty of Christianity.
How deep dishonesty runs in Christianity can be gauged by one of the most popular Christian arguments for belief in God: Pascal�s wager. This "wager" holds that it�s safer to "believe" in God (as if belief were volitional!) than not to believe, because God might exist, and if it does, it will save "believers" and condemn nonbelievers to hell after death. This is an appeal to pure cowardice. It has absolutely nothing to do with the search for truth. Instead, it�s an appeal to abandon honesty and intellectual integrity, and to pretend that lip service is the same thing as actual belief. If the patriarchal God of Christianity really exists, one wonders how it would judge the cowards and hypocrites who advance and bow to this particularly craven "wager."
Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality. It's only natural that those who believe (or play act at believing) that they have a direct line to the Almighty would feel superior to others. This is so obvious that it needs little elaboration. A brief look at religious terminology confirms it. Christians have often called themselves "God's people," "the chosen people," "the elect," "the righteous," etc., while nonbelievers have been labeled "heathens," "infidels," and "atheistic Communists" (as if atheism and Communism are intimately connected). This sets up a two-tiered division of humanity, in which "God's people" feel superior to those who are not "God�s people."
That many competing religions with contradictory beliefs make the same claim seems not to matter at all to the members of the various sects that claim to be the only carriers of "the true faith." The carnage that results when two competing sects of "God�s people" collide—as in Ireland and Palestine—would be quite amusing but for the suffering it causes.
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He followed the jewish rules, after all, but simply didn't expected the same from his followers. That sais it all, doesn't it?
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This is awesome! Thank you so much for the links.
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I always wondered how the rich man was able to keep ALL ten commandments since he was a boy (really none of the likely trivial mistake commandments?). And I guess that STILL wasn't enough (a noticeable common complaint I hear against the Church is that the leaders are always criticizing what we're "not doing enough of" or still habitually doing this "bad" thing which we can't promise to repent of. ). Maybe later Jesus will ask those poor folk who received the money to give it away to the next person (same goes for those "materialists" that bought the properties)
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with the concept of "forgiveness for everything" you can do whatever you want, anyway. So, there will be no Jesus who is asking anything at all 
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Good luck telling that to natsumihanaki20, whom was nearly every reason in your list to abandon Christianity.
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Ah, another passage in the Bible that doesn't jive with the Protestant Work Ethic and the American ideology according to which (as one Texan told me), "God wants us to be wealthy"!
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A texan of course 
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