beezer wrote:I voted for Christianity. These are the reasons:
From its beginnings Christianity has sought to impose kindness on others
Take a look at these passages from the Bible:
Deut. 10:17, Isaiah 1:17, Proverbs 19:17, Matthew 25:31-46
Indeed a hideous religion! But this Christian message doesn't stop within the pages of scripture. The people who follow & believe in it do awful things. Let's see what dastardly deeds they've performed throughout history.
Their insistence on contributing to music
George Handel, J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn (traitorous convert to Lutheranism), Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak, Igor Stravinsky, Olivier Messiaen, Maurice Durufle, William Billings, Antonio Vivaldi, and Fanny Crosby.
Their insistence on contributing to literature
Hans Christian Anderson, Hrotsvit, T.S. Elliot, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Dickens, John Grisham, Lew Wallace, Anne Rice (another traitor!), George McDonald, Leo Tolstoy, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Their attempts at contributing to poetry
John Donne, Phyllis Wheatley, John Milton, Gerard Hopkins, Samuel Coleridge
Their insistence on contributing to art
Michelangelo, Fra Angelico, Albrecht Durer, Vincent Van Gogh, and Thomas Kinkade.
Their interference with slavery and exposing civil rights injustices
William Wilberforce, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Crowther, James Ramsay, Martin Luther King, Jr.
They keep inventing things or come up with innovations
Samuel Morse, William Wright, Orville Wright, Cyrus McCormack, Johannes Gutenberg, Joseph Lister, Louis Braille, David Brewster
Forcing us to understand more about the universe
John Couch Adams, George Biddle Airy, Jean Baptiste Biot, James Bradley, Johann Baptist Cysat, Eugenio Danti, Sir Arthur Eddington, John Flamsteed, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, John Herschel, William Huggins, Johan Von Lamont, John Philoponus, Christian Mayer, Nevil Maskelyne, Alexandre Guy Pingre, Schryrle de Rhetia, , Johan Stein, Godefroy Wendelen, Pierre Gassendi, John Dalton, Thomas Young
Forcing us to understand more within the fields of science
Robert Boyle, Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Gregor Mendel, Lord Kelvin, George Stokes, James Maxwell, Galileo Galilei, Arthur Eddington, Blaise Pascal, George Washington Carver, Thomas Hodgkin, Sir John Herschel, and Louis Pasteaur.
Shoving medical advancement down our throats
Crawford Long, James Simpson, James Dwight Dana, Josiah Willard Gibbs
Refusing to let people live shorter lives
Wilfred Grenfell, Nathan Smith, Hermann Boerhave, Walter Reed, Charles Bell, James Ramsay, John Flynn, Ida Scudder, James Durham, and Clara Swain.
Kidnapping orphans, poor people, and the disparaged. They then force these people to live with a roof over their heads and feed them!
George Mueller, Lilian Trasher, Emma Whitemore, The YMCA & the YWCA, The Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row, World Vision, and the Salvation Army
It's cool if this kind of behavior were just limited to the past, but these Christians just don't stop. They continue to do these things right in our faces today. Just take a look at what they engage in. I'm warning you, some of these pictures are extremely offensive.
(1) Feeding poor people and then PRAYING IN PUBLIC WITH THEM!
(2) Feeding victims of Hurricane Katrina
(3) Providing a place for orphans to grow up
This one is probably the most offensive. I'm warning you before looking at it. This woman constantly cared for orphans, the poor, the sick, and the dying. I think she went by the name of Theresa. Not once have we heard an apology for her schemes.
We have to mobilize people! We need to prevent the orphans from being exposed to orphanages. We need to stop Christians from founding new hospitals. We need to stop the hungry from being fed. Together we can do it! A society built on hedonism will prevail and guilt will be a thing of the past.
How about
The crusades
The inquisition
The many religious wars
do I really need to go on?
