Christianity Is An Abusive Insult; which should not be taken lightly.

  Here is a live reading of this blog, for anyone who prefers to hear it read out loud. On my channel, I do often stop to read comments and give shout-outs for people in chat. Please pardon the interruptions. There is just so much wrong with the core doctrines of Christianity.

I don't think I could ever narrow my list of objections down to just one or two. But at the very top of my list? If I do have a creator, I would not owe my creator an apology or debt for how he made me. That would be, after all, something he did to me. It's not something I volunteered for. It's not something I did to him. Nor is it something I did to myself. Imperfection is something that (according to Bibles) that creator-deity forced onto me. Qualified historians and scientists all agree that the Adam and Eve story is a myth. However, even if we humor the idea of it being all literally true, ... We can't reasonably blame Adam and Eve for that deity's choice to curse all of their descendants. Worse yet, we'd be talking about the curse of imperfections. If I had the power to curse generations with flaws, I would not then be upset with those generations for HAVING the flaws I gave them. Nor would it be reasonable to sit back and watch, with arms folded, as those flaws made people progressively less compatible with me, if I plan to judge and punish them for that incompatibility. Nor is it reasonable to argue that God needed to curse us all with sin just so he'd have something to rescue us from. I don't go around setting fire to any lives (especially not an entire world) just so I can have something horrific to rescue people from. Nor can I be (justly) placed in moral debt for what someone ELSE is alleged to have done. "We" didn't eat some forbidden fruit. "We" didn't kill Jesus. "We" didn't do anything at all. I stand or fall on my own merits. And that only happens for choices I've freely made. So then, my ledger of moral debts must not include any events (or alleged events) from a time before I even existed. Also, "we" were never under the Mosaic Law Covenant. Only Second Temple Judaism was ever under those laws; or in that covenant. So even if some Christians want to call that law-set a curse, it still wouldn't make any sense to go around offering to liberate people from a law-curse that we "gentiles" were never under in the first place. Many Christian leaders are also hoping we don't do the proper research, to find out what qualified historians are saying about the biblical "Hebrew" religion and texts. Because then you'd find out that the "Biblical Hebrews" went from open polytheism to a more narrow (but still polytheistic) henotheism. Even when they wrote their Torah (NOT written by Moses, by the way), they were all polytheists; because the Hebrews started off as Canaanites. It took many centuries of segregation away from their Canaanite roots for them to eventually create YHWH; made from pieces of older Canaanite gods. [Link] As Yahweh absorbed the lore of other gods, he became more and more prominent. Gradually, he became the most important (to the Hebrews). At some point, he became the only "God" those writers' own religious tribe really submitted themselves to.
Much later (after the Christian texts were written) he became "the only true God" for that still-evolving niche of rival Abrahamic religious groups. At that point, it became important to edit and re-interpret their religious stories; to validate the "authority" of each faction's newfound monotheism. So here we are today. I don't really care about the trivial crap those religions and sects fight about. But I do care about the problems those religions cause in non-consenting lives. I care about the consequential "values" they feed into humanity's collective consciousness. Thus, I take a stand whenever I must. This is certainly not a small issue. I don't deserve to die (or worse) for merely being flawed. Neither do any of the people I love. Now, we could argue that's moot "if there is no God"'. But I say this matters; no matter if there or if there isn't. Because how we do (or don't) value other people's lives has a tremendous impact on those lives. And that value is often determined by how religious people suppose their GOD determines people's value. If someone believes in a deity who determines the ultimate value for each individual human (whether or not we aught not be thrown away like trash) based on our individual usefulness for his ego,

then: that believer is being trained to see everyone's value as: ultimately dependent on that.

Our usefulness to a shared Super-Parent should never become the basis upon-which we decide if someone is beautiful enough that they're worth protecting. Autonomous value is value that that doesn't depend on how useful we are to someone else. But some religions don't see it that way. So they're at-peace with the idea that: "He" plans to throw away all the lives who fail to make "Him" feel important and celebrated enough. So while various Christian factions are arguing with each other about exactly HOW we are supposed to go about pleasing him "or else", ... They are failing to recognize the autonomous worth of every individual. Granted, there are some people this world would be better off without. But those religions grossly oversimply and overestimate that problem by decrying all non-members as disposable. They are also missing the opportunity to be a more healing and connected part of the human whole. They are rejecting the opportunity to more deeply discover and value a great many actually-existing people. Think about it. Why do humans sometimes kill other humans? We know the list of bad reasons. But what are some of the good reasons? Self defense, for sure. Euthanasia? Most people would at least consider this too. Wars? This is where the controversies get muddier. But there would never be any such thing as a justified ending of someone's life, if we had God-powers. Because then nobody would ever really be in such great danger. We could just: 1. Preventatively educate and nurture. But this is something the biblical Yahweh barely ever bothered with. By all rational standards, that makes him a bad parent. 2. Fix people's malfunctioning brains as-needed This something the biblical Yahweh never bothered with. The only exception would be when he turned Saul into Paul. Although, that depends on if you consider that to be an upgrade. In my estimation, it just made Saul in a differently destructive gangster-cult personality, as he switched from small-scale physical violence to large-scale psychological violence. 3. Reasonably limit the harms people can cause. With God-powers, a virtuous person could (and surely would) make especially heinous crimes impossible. They'd also limit how much physical and psychological pain could be involuntarily experienced. They'd also make it impossible to trap or kill anyone. Anyone greatly threatened, trapped or having their body killed could just instantly transform into an invisible spirit-form person and then choose for themselves when and where they'll rematerialize. We would never be a need to worry about a Hitler, or a Jeffrey Dahmer, or your Ex. Nor would anyone need to "fear God". Even the most evil people would be powerless to cause extremes of harm. Although, a good "God" could have put safeguards in place (within our DNA) to ensure certain types of perception-defects and perverse-pleasure-mechanisms never develop. And since nobody who doesn't already HAVE those defects would ever freely choose to acquire those defects, there would be no need to limit anyone's freedoms when it comes to those defects. There are just so many obvious protections a "Good God" could have put into place, to protect the sanctity of every life. In contrast, "The God of Abraham" (in bible stories) just goes around casually throwing people away like trash; and with wildly painful, traumatic, and unnecessary violence. But because their conceptualized-deity is such a Narcissist (created BY Narcissists, in their image), we're supposed to GAS LIGHT each other by making excuses for him; like proper Flying Monkeys. [Although, the preferred term is "evangelizers" and "apologists". Because Flying Monkeys don't like it when we call a spade a spade] Meanwhile, LIFE is hard. For some of us, it's brutal. But the only people who ever feel a burning need for their ego (yes; their ego) to be "washed clean" and "born again" are especially ego-vulnerable people. Why are some people so ego-vulnerable? These are people whose failed-parents and toxic culture, compounded by their own mistakes and shortcomings, left them feeling blank and/or shackled to shame. So they'll feel like "I did a thing" or "I am a thing" that is vacant or shameful. So then they think "I need a new identity; a clean slate. With that, I could become impervious to the judgements that currently burden me.". Often with good intentions, Christians SWOOP down to "rescue" such individuals. They imagine swooping down like rescuing angels. But that entire happening is more correctly likened to preying vultures. Instead of helping people mature into a healthier self-image, they just transfer ownership of struggling-people's external locus of identity from: being owned by the judgements of other humans to being owned by the judgements of a Super-Father. It's an 'easy out'. For that reason, we could say it's a bit of a cheat. To be fair, it really does provide an instant sense of transformative relief for many people. However, the cost of that relief is fantastically high. And those human "rescuers" are hoping you don't realize it. That Super-Father is actually just a mentally constructed Puppet King; whom religious "rescuers" rule through. And they do that by casting their voice (like a ventriloquist) through that mental projection; which they call "God". -- I'm NOT saying "there aren't any gods". I'm just saying "that thing ... certainly isn't one".