50 Things about Christianity That Are Bogus

50 Things about Christianity That Are Bogus Current mood: giggly Category: Religion and Philosophy 1. Resurrection of Jesus: Who wants to see a dead body walking around? 2. Trinity: It doesn’t add up. 3. Virgin Birth: I wouldn’t buy it if my wife told me the same thing happened to her. 4. There are more text-to-text differences in the earliest Christian manuscripts than there are actual words in the New Testament, but they call this book inspired! 5. Resurrection of Lazarus: Another dead body walking around, what gives? 6. Translations use bad English. 7. Evangelism is downright annoying. 8. The early Christians were largely uneducated and illiterate and relied on hundreds of years of oral tradition to pass on what is possibly true. Any fool can see there is more room for Paul Bunyan like tales to arise about this person. 9. The ancestry of Jesus is in the wrong order. There was nothing wrong with first comes the oldest, as it makes it easier to work backwards in time. 10. There were several early New Testament canons, and they still are unable to get it right, that is unless you belong to the denomination with the right canon. 11. The cannon changes often, and even now the Protestant canon and the Catholic canon contain different books. 12. Constantine, whom is relatively unknown by your average Christian, is perhaps the greatest reason why this religion became popular. 13. Christians are unable to agree on the basic precepts of Christianity, such that there are 10,000 denominations. 14. The slave trade of Africans was justified by the Bible. 15. Popes, Presidents and other leaders often use God, especially the cross to justify atrocities, such as the crusades. Major crackpot leaders, such as Hitler have often claimed Christian faith. 16. The normalcy of rape and suppression of women during the Victorian era due to certain New Testament passages is unknown to many whom attend church. 17. Christian forgiveness seems to know no bounds, except for disbelief that Jesus is God. 18. Murder over the New Testament is as common now during the Rwanda genocide as it was during the Inquisition. 19. Historically, the New Testament has been the grounds for countless forced conversions. 20. Ninety five percent of the Gospel of Mark is elsewhere in the Gospels. What is the point of it? 21. Personal relationships with a dead man have never resulted in reasonable thinking. 22. Going to hell for disbelief that Jesus is a deity is too steep of a punishment. Arguing the present danger of my soul is a real turn off. 23. Although there are a handful of exceptions, the music of Christianity is less than good. 24. Christians still have not come up with a good reason why there is pain and suffering, as they will not allow a biological explanation, such as the evolution of the nervous system. 25. After 2,000 years, Christians have failed to spread the gospel to the entire world. Give up! It is never going to happen! 26. Much of the Christian message centers on heaven and hell, but Christians have no reliable way of telling who goes where. 27. Islam, which represents the second most popular religion in the world questions if the crucifixion ever happened. 28. After 2,000 years the Old Testament is still in the Christian canon, but Christians are unable to decide what to make of it, ranging from it has some good points, to that its teachings are no longer valid, but fulfilled. 29. According to the “Old Testament,” belief in Jesus, a person qualifies as idolatry. 30. All Christian holiday dates were pagan by Christian standards in origin. 31. Paul would have us eat any meat and have us think that it is clean if we can just imagine it that way in our mouth. 32. The Bible and Papal authority supposedly justified countless wars. 33. Most Christian historical sites in Israel are hoaxes. 34. After 2,000 years, they still are unable find the tomb. 35. The translation, or perhaps the actual New Testament Greek words use “the” too much rather than “a,” as in Jesus calmed “the” storm, should be replaced by Jesus calmed a storm. Likewise, it should say that he fed a multitude, not “the” multitude. 36. Casting out demons is still common today, but what was really going on was that people had an unknown sickness. 37. Televangelists are the scum of the earth. These are the modern day equivalent of priests of Zeus, but if they claim faith in the J-man, they will automatically go to heaven. What a joy! 38. Some people actually think that the wafer becomes the body and blood of Jesus when you eat it. That is imaginary cannibalism! 39. Former President Jimmy Carter leads the way on fundamentalist ideas, such as oppression of women in church. 40. Attracting celibate priests has always supported jobs for sexual freaks. 41. Celibate priests can never offer good marital counseling, and neither can nuns. 42. Christians feel sad when someone has died even though they have moved on to paradise in heaven. 43. Religion will always be an opiate of the masses. 44. The holy high roller talking in tongues is like listening to a fountain of gibberish. 45. In order to be holy in the Catholic Church you have to look gaunt and hungry. 46. Jesus died young. Usually, that is a sign that a person lacked wisdom. 47. The debate over who crucified Jesus it totally played out. 48. Revelations’ “Wrath of the Lamb” is a silly concept at best. 49. There is a poor order of events, such as the clearing of the Temple in Mark 2, while this story shows up much later in a different Gospel. 50. There is hardly any tone to the Gospels, except what one might infer. Generally, most people read into the text what is simply not there. For example, when reading several of Jesus’ statements with tones such as anger, sadness, or laughter and arrive at a very different ideas of Jesus. It is absurd to associate the proper emotion with Jesus’ dialog when it is not in the text.