Christianity is Contradictory and Hypocritical:


Christianity says you are already saved through Christ’s action and God’s Grace. There is no escaping the bounds of God’s unconditional love… or is it conditional love? with strings attached? where it relies solely on your action of conversion and baptism into the faith (at the very least) in order for God to love you enough to spare your from endless torture, hate, and all that is “bad?” Let’s take a closer look.

Christians may preach that one ought to have unconditional love and forgiveness, to love your neighbors, and to love your enemies. Even Jesus preaches that; “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you” (Lk 6:27). BUT, the perfect Christian God has much less than perfect love and forgiveness for his beautiful creation. Instead of the great majority of Christians wishing to believe that “God so loved the world” enough that Christ came to save everyone from his bad side (or Hell – God’s other creation), they would rather believe that He waits on every last one of his expected-to-be-imperfect humans to seek first the kingdom of God. (Just a note: there are a very few Christians who do believe Jesus came as God to save every last person from damnation; it’s called Universalism.) Almost every Christian actually believes that God relies on each one of us to ask him for forgiveness and “salvation” before He grants it. Now, why would any kind of God with such love do that? It seems to me that this ever-loving God wishes instead to save us from our own free will, and have us instead as sheep, asking for forgiveness from thinking for ourselves. I can see it now – all that Red coming from Christ’s wounds really isn’t blood after all.

Okay, okay, you’re right… I was ranting. And not really proving any kind of point other than my distaste for what you may call my straw-man theory of Christianity. Let’s get back to the Bible and see what the official text of Christianity has to say about all this. After all, if I were you, I’d expect someone like me to support my claim that Christianity is hypocritical by using its own text.

Romans has a good excerpt about all this love me or hate me stuff. The only problem with one of the better parts of the Bible, is that it uses an appeal to the worst in human nature as its M.O. See if you can spot what’s wrong here: “Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord. On the contrary: ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.’ Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:17-21).“

Obviously, if your brain-housing group isn’t completely malfunctioning, you might have at least spotted that nice bit about the burning coals. Despite the obvious parts, we are commanded once again to do what can only be done freely: love, in this case. You see, though, wherever there is a commandment in the Bible, it is never for the sake of being an upstanding citizen, but rather appeals to lower nature – such as greed, or hate. In this case, you should love your neighbor for the sake of saving the wrath he absolutely must endure, for God. Fun, fun, fun!

It is at this point where I want to go ahead and cut it a little short. When it comes to spotting inconsistencies, hypocritical tendencies, and innumerable logical fallacies, the Bible is probably one of the easiest pieces of work to demolish with the smallest amount of critical thinking.

Don’t forget to use that brain God gave you!

- your Atheist friend… or enemy

P.S. (I just don’t want any burning coals for Christmas, thanks).

P.P.S. (Sorry this wasn’t actually posted until after Christmas. I had other things to do with my life. (-:)

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