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If I'm being completely honest, once I discovered all of the manipulations and lies Christianity perpetrates on its people, everything else I hear about the rel
by TameAntelope 5y ago
If I'm being completely honest, once I discovered all of the manipulations and lies Christianity perpetrates on its people, everything else I hear about the religion I take with a heaping pile of salt, including wisdom I might, in a vacuum, accept.
My thought is usually something like, "Yes, and how did this 'wisdom' help earlier Christian leaders control their followers?"
- good8675309 5y agoSorry you had such a bad time with religion. Our experiences really do affect how we perceive the world. I also had a bad experience with it growing up, rejected it, became an atheist, then really experienced God later on and it changed me. There really is beauty in the Bible and the life of Christ. Real hope, real redemption for broken humanity. You have to separate Christianity from the people that abuse it for control, manipulation, and power. Those things are not principles that the Bible teaches, in fact Jesus condemns those actions explicitly.
- TameAntelope 5y agoI did not have a bad experience with religion growing up (I had little/no experience with religion growing up), but the manipulation I'm referencing is available for anyone to read about, as the history of the Catholic church is not private information. The beauty in Christianity is co-opted and stolen from the beauty of the universe in an effort to control others. Very little about Christianity is uniquely beautiful, in my opinion.