Christian "Grace". A Concept That Enslaves Minds, Fosters Abuse, And Prevents People From Healing And Growing

The term "grace" literally means "undeserved kindness".

It posits that humans don't even deserve the air we breathe, because we "fall short" of a super-Father's standard of perfection.

We are not enough;
as we are.

We aren't worthy of that minimal amount of kindness.

It then offers to "forgive"/pardon us
for being unworthy to even exist
so that super-Parent can then justify (to himself) the choice to
a.) let any pardoned-person keep existing (beyond this life)
and
b.) while being treated kindly. 

[Note: Some Christian sects do not include eternal torture as a teaching. 

Some only say we stop existing. 

Some say we go to a less horrific (but still horrific) place of eternal suffering.

Some say we all 'eventually' get sculpted into Christians and then allowed into paradise.

However,
nearly all versions teach that "grace" means we get forgiven for being imperfect;
- so that we can then be allowed to escape ~whichever~ fate they think we are all otherwise deserving.]


Their offer of "grace" posits that we are are presently worthy of "Hell" (whatever their sect says "Hell" is) 
~until we are pardoned from that~
and then:
granted an eternal life that we don't "deserve".
That's the "kindness" of "grace".

For the popular Catholic and Protestant fundamentalist versions of Christianity, 
it means we are worse than worthless.
In their eyes,
we literally have an infinitely negative worth.

If we had infinitely more worth,
but still "fell short",
then we'd at least break-even
with dogs, horses, and trees.

In that case,
we'd at least qualify for an eternal peace of nothingness;
as we were
before molecules of corn, wheat, and water, and dirt were sucked up into a sentient meat-sack.
(against our will; without our consent).

But our worth (per Christianity) is LESS THAN that of a dog;
except for:
our AMAZING and INFINITE "potential worth"
as butt-kissing sycophants
holding up the violently fragile ego
of a clinically narcissistic, psychopathic Super-Parent.

So when I hear that "kind offer" being made, 
and (worse yet) when I hear a Gas Lighting Christian Flying Monkey defend their mentally projected Super-Narcissist
by DENYING what their own religious narrative really teaches, ...

I lament.
And I feel sorry for them. 
And I feel sorry for all the lives ruined by it.

What they peddle
is not love.

Like a teenage girl with an abusive boyfriend and crippling daddy issues, ...

They have mistaken it for love,
because:

 They don't have a healthy and mature understanding of what love really is.

And they don't want anyone else to either.
Because:

A fully healthy, mature, happy, well-adjusted, autonomously-adult person 
will:
 let their strong positive self-image, well-earned moral confidence, and well-earned trust in their own ability to reason, 
  
nullify any potential desire to let needy, controlling, and entitled people
do their thinking for them. 

It would also:

 nullify any potential desire or ~sense of need~ to be validated by an outside source; by some other "person". 

That emotionally mature adult won't have any interest in seeking/finding a larger-than-life authoritarian parental figure 
to tell them how to think, feel, speak, act, 
 or even tell them WHO they are, 
and then to GIVE them "worth"... crutched upon that approval. 
 
That's simply not what emotionally mature people seek.
It's not even something they'd humor.

This is why Christian and Islamic "outreach" focuses on young children, emotionally overwhelmed adults, the economically-impoverished, and the educationally-impoverished. 

They seek out special vulnerability.

Strong, mature minds don't have those same vulnerabilities to exploit; so the "outreacher" would be wasting their time.

This is why bibles specifically say that the wise and learned cannot "see" that "God". 

Our lens is not vulnerable to having such a "God" drawn upon it. 

Our minds are not vulnerable to the Gas Lighting 
inherent to the gimmick.

We have no such lack of confidence, clarity, or worth to exploit. 
So our standards naturally higher
and our personal relationships are healthier;
especially the relationship we have with our self.