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WHAT IS SO BAD ABOUT CHRISTIANITY?

 

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Home Page - Index   Authorities Assessed Old Testament New Testament Apostolic
Traditions Church Fathers Emperors General Church Councils Popes Conclusions  
Early Christian History What Jesus Believed Who Founded Christianity? Creation
of Doctrine Origin of Ideas & Practices The Concept of Orthodoxy Origin of the
Priesthood   Maintaining Deceptions Suppress Facts Selecting Sources Fabricating
Records Retrospective Prophesy Ambiguous Authorities Ignore Injunctions Invent,
Amend and Discard Manipulate Language   Case Studies Re-branding a Sky-God
Making One God out of Many How Mary keeps her Virginity Fabricating the Nativity
Story Managing Inconvenient Texts   Christianity & Science Traditional
Battlegrounds Modern Battlegrounds   Rational Explanations Religion in General
Christianity in Particular Divine Human Beings Ease of Creating Religions  
Arguments for and Against Popular Arguments Philosophical Arguments Moral
Arguments Supernatural Arguments Miracles Revelation Faith Practical Arguments  
Record of Christianity Social Issues Slavery Racism Capital Punishment Penal
Reform Physical Abuse Treatment of Women Contraception Abortion Divorce Family
Values Children Romanies The Physically Ill The Mentally Ill The Poor Animals
Ecology Persecution Persecutions of Christians Persecutions by Christians
 * "Heathens"
 * Witches
 * Heretics
 * Schismatics
 * Cathars
 * Jews
 * Inquisition Victims
 * Philosophers
 * Freethinkers
 * Blasphemers
 * Apostates
 * Humanists
 * Pantheists
 * Unitarians
 * Deists
 * Atheists

Church & State Symbiosis Meddling in Governance Interference in Politics Abuse
of Power Church Law and Justice Exemption from the Law Unofficial Exemption
Financial Privileges Control Over Education Human Rights
Freedom of Belief Religious Toleration Freedom of Expression Freedom of
Enjoyment Attitudes to Sex
Celibacy Sex Within Marriage Sex Outside Marriage Incest Rape Homosexuality
Transvestism Prostitution Pederasty Bestiality Sadomasochism Necrophilia
Consequences

Science & Medicine


Ancient Times Dark and Middle Ages Sixteenth Century Seventeenth Century
Eighteenth Century Nineteenth Century 20th and 21st Centuries Medical Records
Compared Violence & Warfare Crusades God's Wars Churches' Wars Christian
Atrocities Cultural Vandalism The Classical World Europe The Wider Modern World
Possible Explanations Summing up   Marketing Religion Marketing Christianity  
Continuing Damage Religious Discrimination Christian Discrimination Moral
Dangers Abuse of Power   A Final Summing Up       Bibliography    
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Many Christians and non-Christians remain largely unaware of the history of
Christianity. This website lays out the facts as clearly as possible. Popular
and topical areas are:

 * Family Values - showing that traditional Christian teachings are the exact
   opposite of what are now widely taught as traditional Christian teachings.
 * Persecution - the largely imaginary Persecutions of Christians contrasted
   with the extensive persecution by Christians of "Heathens", Witches,
   Heretics, Schismatics, Cathars, Jews, Inquisition Victims, Philosophers,
   Freethinkers, "Blasphemers", Apostates, Humanists, Pantheists, Unitarians,
   Deists and Atheists
 * Attitudes to Sex - including some surprises, on topics such as Celibacy,
   Sadomasochism & Necrophilia
 * The Christian record of Interference in Politics
 * The origin of the Priesthood and the Papacy
 * Miracles - how they have changed and why they have become so rare
 * Traditional Battlegrounds between Christianity and science - with a list of
   lost battles
 * How Mary, the mother of Jesus, keeps her Virginity
 * Social Issues - The Church's uncomfortable record on social issues ,
   including Slavery, Racism, Capital Punishment, Penal Reform, Physical Abuse,
   Treatment of Women, Contraception, Abortion, Divorce, Children, Romanies, The
   Physically Ill, The Mentally Ill, The Poor, Animals, Ecology
 * The question of whether any Christians really follow Biblical teachings as
   set out in the Old Testament and the New Testament?

 

 


FOR MORE DETAIL AND OTHER TOPICS SEE BELOW:


 

An Assessment of Christian Authorities.

How do we know what Christianity teaches? Thousands of Christian Churches teach
different things, and all Churches over two hundred years old have changed their
teachings during the last two centuries. One reason for disagreement is that
different Churches select different sources of authority. Among these sources
are various writings, notably the Old Testament and the New Testament. Another
source of authority is "traditions" especially "Apostolic Traditions" supposedly
passed down from the earliest years of Christianity. Other sources include
notable early Christian men - the so-called Church Fathers.

Over the centuries Christian Churches have also accorded supposedly infallible
authority to various men. For many centuries the Roman (ie Byzantine) Emperors
were held to be infallible - a fact that is now heavily downplayed. Churches
also taught that Councils of the whole Church, so called General Church
Councils, were also infallible. More recently the Roman Catholic Church has
claimed that Popes are also infallible. Each of these authorities is assessed,
and the assessments summarised in Conclusions.

 

Early Christian History.

Christians and others often assume that Jesus believed himself to be divine, one
of the three persons of a divine Trinity. There is in fact no evidence at all
for this, so a good follow up question is that of what Jesus believed himself to
be according to the earliest available documents and in the light of what is
known about Palestine two thousand years ago. Another is that if Jesus did not
found the Christian religion, then who did found Christianity? And how was
doctrine created? And where did Christian ideas and practices come from?

Related to these questions is the concept of Orthodoxy. Given the contradictory
and otherwise unsatisfactory nature of the various Christian Authorities how can
anyone know what constitutes the "correct" form of Christianity among the
thousand of past and present denominations? One particularly thorny issue is the
idea of a Christian priesthood, so the origin of the Priesthood is investigated
in some detail.

 

Case Studies

Reviewing the development of Christian doctrines, ideas and practices reveals a
number of techniques that have been employed to enable Christianity to develop
in the directions that its leaders have wanted to follow. These case studies
show how these techniques have been employed to re-brand an Old Testament
Sky-God as a more acceptable Jewish and Christian God, to present the many gods
identified in the Old Testament as a single God, to maintain, that Mary, the
mother of Jesus, kept her Virginity before, during and after the birth of Jesus
in the face of every possible sort of contradictory evidence. Further case
studies show how the familiar Nativity Story was concocted from a number of
unrelated Old Testament passages and how inconvenient texts have been managed to
make them acceptable.

 

Christianity & Science

According to many Christian apologists there cannot be any conflict between
Christianity and science, since they deal with different types of knowledge.
They occupy different domains which do not overlap and so they cannot ever come
into conflict. This view is open to challenge by reviewing traditional
battlegrounds, including Early Christian Attitudes to Science, and then
specifically Cosmology, Mathematics and Physics, Biology, Earth Science,
Chemistry, Pharmacy and Medicine, Philology, Philosophy. In these the battles
are now fought and have been decided. There are also a number of modern
battlegrounds including Evolution and Genetics, Creation Science, and Origins of
Life, some of which have important consequences

 

Rational Explanations

One explanation for Christianity is that it is the One True religion. But this
is not the only possible explanation for the existence of Christianity. There
are a number of non-theological explanations for the existence of religion in
general and for Christianity in particular. Of particular significance is a
universal human tendency to assign divinity to ordinary human beings and a
remarkable human proclivity to believe in even the most unlikely religions,
including unlikely Christian sects.

 

Arguments for and Against Christianity

A number of arguments have been advanced in support of Christianity, for example
purporting to prove the existence of God. These have been divided into five
categories. Popular Arguments are arguments that are commonly put forward by
believers. Philosophical Arguments are more sophisticated reasoned arguments
that have engaged philosophers in the past. Moral Arguments boil down to
variations on a theme that Christians have a demonstrably superior moral code in
comparison to non-Christians. Arguments from Miracles, Revelation & Faith rely
upon evidence of the supernatural (Miracles such as Stigmata, and miracles
worked by relics, saints, healers and other miracle workers, and visionary
prophets); Revealed knowledge is knowledge supposedly provided by supernatural
agency; and Faith, it is claimed, provides its own proof of the existence of God
and the truth of Christianity. Finally some practical Practical Arguments are
presented, assessing Christian claims against what would reasonably be expected
of a true religion.

 

The Record of Christianity

In line with the Moral Argument already mentioned, if Christianity was the one
true religion, or was divinely inspired, then Christians should be able to
demonstrate a superior morality and a superior moral record. Thus Christians
would have a better record on Social Issues (such as Slavery, Racism, Capital
Punishment, Penal Reform, Physical Abuse, Treatment of Women, Contraception,
Abortion, Divorce, Family Values, Children, Romanies, The Physically Ill, The
Mentally Ill, The Poor, Animals, and the Environment). Christians would have
endured Persecutions of Christians without carrying out Persecutions themselves.
Again, Christians would have a good influence on the governance of Christian
States (for example creating a constructive Symbiosis between Church & State,
not Meddling in National Governments, and exercising a positive influence in
politics). Christians would have exercised a sensitive and positive influence
over all aspects of Sex, would have promoted research into Science & Medicine,
would have a record of opposing Violence & Warfare, and no record of Cultural
Vandalism. As Christianity does not always live up to expectations, some
Possible Explanations are considered and the evidence Summed up.

 

Continuing Influence

Although the power of the Christian Church is much reduced in the modern world,
it still exercises influence. All countries in the world Discriminate in favour
of at least one religion. Many discriminate in favour of Christianity. In
particular the Churches still affect modern morality and exercise considerable
residual power.

 

 

 

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