Journal alternative_right's Journal: Problems with Christianity 1
1. It's foreign. This should be enough. It is from a half-Arabic people in the middle east.
2. It's dualistic. Symbolic Heaven plays by different rules than Earth, causing people to reject reality. This is schizophrenia.
3. It's exoteric. The idea that normal people can understand religion forces a constant dumbing down.
4. It's universalist. It rejects hierarchy, except from the church of course.
5. It's individualistic. The personal god rejects the idea of unity with the world, and you bond to a symbol instead.
I am religious, and believe in gods/God, and think all religions state the same basic message, but Christianity (and Abrahamism generally) add on weird controlling middle eastern stuff that is best avoided.
On the contrary... (Score:2)
1. It's foreign. This should be enough. It is from a half-Arabic people in the middle east. This is both racist and ethnocentric. You take a serious credibility hit starting with this.
2. It's dualistic. Symbolic Heaven plays by different rules than Earth, causing people to reject reality. This is schizophrenia. You're forgetting about Hell. Besides, most people place heaven elsewhere, as in not here. Your view of a priori rejection of reality is just one of many ways to look at it, all valid.
3. It's ex