Christianity is the lesser evil of all religions and beliefs

For any religion or belief to exist their must be slaves or servants of it, but Christianity is the lesser evil of all religions because it does not require slaves to be happy.

A good slave in Christianity is one who works hard but is not necessarily happy. In other religions and beliefs a slave must be happy in their servitude of that belief, in fact some even prefer a lazy slave who is happy over a hard working slave who is sad.

Christian dominated countries are superior because they allow the most basic consent of humanity.

 

The Gospel is an assurance that to live like Christ is to live with God.

 

I would say that claim is nonsense.
How many religions are you aware of, much less studied.
There are over 3000 of them.

I would say it is the better of the 3 Abrahamic, but would not go any further.


I always insisted that Christianity was written by lawyers.

 

And German measles is the best measles of all the measles to get.

 

An apt comparison, considering that religion is a mental virus.

 

I view it more like an affliction of sapient "spirit".

 

I like the virus analogy because, like a virus, it spreads from host to host, where it mutates and competes against other strains for dominance.

 

Christianity does not require slaves to be happy.

I would dispute that. Thought crime is a very real thing in Christianity. Giving that attractive young woman a second look as you pass by her is a crime worthy of eternal torture unless you go grovel before a priest (if you are Catholic) or you have had your moment when you are on your knees in tears with your arms uplifted saying "Yes Yeshua you are indeed my savior!" (if you are Protestant). I don't know how the Orthodox church deals with forgiveness of sins.

 

Buddhism requires only that you be true to yourself - not any doctrine. I would call your declaration a fail.

 

religions guided by karma will tend to see people acting in a more humane manor.
You are conscious of your actions creating good or bad karma, so
people tend to keep their scales of karma in balance.

In Christianity a person can kill a bunch of people, and get on their knees and say Jesus I'm sorry, forgive me. And everything's cool.
Not so, in a religion that is balancing your karmic scales.
You pay for what you did, there is no free lunch.

 

Why does a person need a religion in order to cope with life?

 

if Christ is God then Andrea Yates was living like God when she drowned her children like God did his?

I think being good or bad is up to the believer of any religion... the religions themselves do not make one good or bad

imo, religious fanatics just look for loopholes in their religion to do bad things in the name of their Gods

 

Being "true to yourself" is itself a false god. Should a murderer be true to himself? How about a pedophile? Is an enemy spy a noble person because he is being true to himself? How about a traitor? We have social repression for a reason, and that is that people are rotten bastards when left to their own devices. Christianity takes account of that fact and molds people to conform based on a fear of divine justice. Does it work for everyone? No. Do people take it and use it for their own ends? Yes. But overall, Christianity is the best moral system ever devised by men, or God, if you prefer.

Because most people are too simpleminded to cope with life without it. Why do you think ancient superstitious nonsense like astrology and witchcraft are on the rise at the same time as Christianity is on the wane? Because people need a way to make sense of life, and if they can't get it from religion, they'll get it from pseudo-religion.

 

some need a Santa that is keeping a list of who is naughty or nice to be good I suppose, with the hopes of presents down the road for being good

the flip side of that is the people that use that belief to manipulate others... such as Hitler and others

 

it was a good system in the past, our secular system is better, but some still use the older system - but I agree with most of what you said

 

Don't you believe there is some symbiotic aspect, where it can bring benefit to the hosts?

If that was not the case, religious cultures would have become outbred or taken over by non-religious ones.

 

Christianity does NOTHING to repress violence. 1,000 straight years of violence and war in Christian Europe proves that.

 

Not necessarily beneficial. The thing is that religions are generally more appealing to the human psyche on an emotional level than a lack of religion. It might be likened to elimating music. We like music by nature, though our individual tastes differ, and we could technically live without music, but that's rarely anyone's preference.

 

Yep. American Christians especially conflate the benefits of secular government and modern science with Christianity for some strange reason, just because they happen to coexist. You would think that other modern countries with equal or lesser violence relative to the USA but with a much more non-religious population would clue them in.

 

Fail.

The religion itself is not violent.
Christianity is very peaceful.
The people in charge were violent.

 

There is no difference between a religion and pseudo-religion, the reason people are moving to new age religions is simply they are more sophisticated morally than something written by 2000 year old goat herders. Christianity is actually on the rise in the poorer and less educated parts of the world.

 

The educated people tend to go atheist.

 

Rubbish the texts of Christianity are stuffed full of violence.

 

Bullsh-t.

There are 3 or 4 verses in Christianity that can be considered controversial on violence.
3 or 4 verses in 4 books is not a lot.

 

Some do and some are taking the route of a general belief in something normally to do with nature and preserving the planet stuff.