On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, John A wrote:
> You wrote:
>
> >
> > Personally, to try to remain objective, I would have to disagree with
> > your views that Christianity is the demon. The "demon" would have to be
> > all religions which ask its followers to risk everything based upon some
> > faith that there is something to gain in an afterlife and that there is
> > an accessible enlightenment. In addition, the "demon" manifests itself
> > with its followers because they all too passively accept these ten
> > commandments or koran or whatever and use it to justify enslavement,
> > genocide, sexism, and the list extends for miles and miles...
> >
> > Cecille
> >
> If you look at christianity's (by christianity I mean mormonism,
> catholicism, and other christian sects) track record in history, you'll
> find nothing but oppression. At first christianity brought education to
> pagan (or "uncivilized") peoples. With this, though, christianity
> brought it's doctrine. Science and truth are just fine for christianity,
> until they contradict christian doctrine. Then things get ugly. Millions
> were killed in the crusades; the inquisition took out more people than
> Hitler could handle. In more recent history, christianity has been used
> to support slavery, "manifest destiny", unequal rights for women,
> censorship and numerous other social evils. Right now there are
> missionary groups that are travelling to places in Africa and South
> America to give tribes that have no written language a means to
> translate the bible. They are basicaly going to these places and
> informing them that their nakedness is evil, and that they are going to
> burn in hell because they are "immoral animals". Members of these tribes
> are intellectualy powerless to prevent this; they believe that spirits
> govern most of the workings of the world. When the "good", "moral"
> christians are finished washing these poor peoples brains out nice and
> clean, they leave them programmed and "holy", with no minds of thier own.
>
> I am not saying that every christian everywhere is inherently evil. When
> dealing with a religion, one must examine what is true of the religion
> as a whole. There are many christians that are very good people. The
> religion taken as a whole, however, yields what I have shown.
>
> We call Jeffery Dahmer a demon because he killed thrity or forty people.
> (I am not sure exactly)Christianity has killed billions. Why can't
> christianity be a demon as well?
> --
> John Aten
> jwa@inx.net
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> "Truth demands to be declared even if it is ugly
> and unethical" -F. Nietzsche
>
> "Of each thing ask, what is it? What is its nature?
> What is it of itself" -Marcus Aurelius
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