DOT wrote:You guys ever thought about how weird Christianity is if you explain it to someone with no cultural background to understand the information?
"Oh yeah, so these guys, once a week, they ritualistically consume the (metaphorical) flesh and blood of their god, who was sacrificed to himself via execution while he was in human form in order to cleanse humanity of the sin of one woman eating an apple she wasn't supposed to way back in the day. Also they wear miniature versions of said execution device around their necks because it's their holiest symbol"
I don't have anything against Christians in general, except for the part where they went around and rewrote a bunch of religions to the point where it's impossible to tell what the original context for said myths were or even if they were originally stories told by that culture or added afterwards by the monks. Also the crusades. And the whole altar boy molestation thing. Really, anything to do with organized religion is a hard no from me, individual people are usually fine.
No. American exceptionalism writ large.
All religions, organised, unorganised or disorganised are ridiculous from an intellectual/rational perspective. There's nothing specifically bad about Christianity from that point of view. Obviously, I point out the absurdities when smarmy French grad students sneer at the petite soeurs' animistic reverences, but are we going to seriously pretend that basically anything in Candomblé could be taken literally either?
Also, in fact, Christianity was, whether by chance or not, the cradle of an insane rate of human technological development over the last ~350 years. That's a pretty interesting thing.
