I am sick and tired of having Christianity shoved in my face.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

I live in rural Texas and I get people inviting me to church. I say I'm not interested and they are stunned.

I've been told I'm going to hell, by one idiot who told me I would not get to heaven "worshiping Buddha and meditating". I told him "You don't know what you are talking about. Buddha is NOT worshiped as a God; he was an enlightened person. It's a philosophy".
This arrogant fuckstick who was explaining "Gawd's Law" to me said "ohhhhhhh".

He was horrified when I told him I had taken religion courses at a Presbyterian university (courses he couldn't pass) and I told him the Bible was translated through four or five languages, chopped up and edited to consolidate Constantine's political power, and he looked horrified when I told him that. Then he told me that "my problem" was that I took those courses, and "studied too much". I told him, "NO, knowledge is always a good thing. You spout off about the Bible and refuse to find out where it came from?" He doesn't want his kids to read books. I told him it was evil to crush a child's spirit by stopping them from learning. He got a grimace on his face when I said that too. He is literally in pain when I tell him stuff and correct his FOX news spewing. I have had to sneak books to his kids. I guess he thinks they should all be ditch-diggers.


I can't explain my beliefs because they refuse to listen. All they know is what some half-assed preacher tells them, which is ignorant spew. Like the idiot neighbor who said "Buddhism is VOODOO!" and crossed her arms in front of her like she was raising a cross to prevent Oriental cooties. After that I stopped speaking to her and put up a fence. I gave her a five minute speech about how Buddhism was an ancient and dignified religion, but she didn't hear me. But then I don't have a six foot tall instrument of torture in my front yard that's decorated with white Xmas lights (I kid you not). Maybe I should ask her when she will put in an electric chair? Or a gallows? Or an Iron Maiden? Or a Catherine Wheel?

You can't have a social life here unless you go to high school football games and church.

The white folks also hate Obama because he's black.

Christianity did not work for me and I think it's childish and illogical. It's also abusive since their starting idea is that you are a worthless P.O.S. because a couple of fruit-chomping idiots in a fairy tale ate of the Tree of Knowledge, and KNOWLEDGE IS BAD!!! Therefore you are going to hell unless you accept Jesus!! Faulty starting premise, faulty solution to non-existent made-up problem (original sin). Very sick and pernicious and evil idea. It's like God is a crooked prosecutor who files an indictment against you even though you are innocent. Not my idea of a just and fair God.

These are stories written to explain why things are the way they are -- like the archetypes Jung talked about, and Joseph Campbell even more in The Hero With a Thousand Faces. They should not be taken as fact, which unfortunately they are. The writings of Rudolf Bultmann are very interesting!!

I see no reason why we should follow the morality of a bunch of Bronze Age nomads, since they knew nothing about science and thought the earth was flat, and demons caused physical and mental illness.

There is nothing unique about Christianity or the idea of the Golden Rule. Jesus is not known to have existed outside of the gospels. Jesus was also into violence, mass murder, condoning the mass murders that God commits in the OT, and generally being illogical and damning people to hell all the time. None of the Gospels are contemporaneous with him. Lots of other gods have the same qualities he does -- Mithra, Tammuz, Apollo, Osiris. It's a syncretic religion based on other pagan myths.

Christians just can't leave me alone. They refuse to believe that it did not work for me and that I have other philosophies I study.

I see no difference between prayer and magic spells. They are both an attempt to change reality. And as far as I can tell neither one works.

/RANT OFF