Originally posted by Saurdaukar
My turning point was when I actually sought out answers for my questions. I wanted to prove that the Bible was bogus, etc, etc, etc. I was not able to do so, and in fact, I found myself pretty convinced of the validity of the Bible and the evnts portrayed within.
I spent 8 years in Catholic school. indoctrinated into Catholicism... something which even as a child just didnt' make sense.
In my 20s I searched for understanding...
Why did Jesus have to suffer and die?
"Because the wages of sin are death."
That's why!
And in the old testiment animals were sacrificed to god to cleans transgressors of their sins.
Eh?
for example... if I kick the watermelon out of my next door neighbor, even if I truly repent and am sorry for my "sin", that don't cut it... I have to kill a goat. I'm talking about the old testiment... you see God's law has never changed... something has to die if there's been a sin... always.
Jesus is the ultimate death. "God so loved the world he gave his only son" blah blah blah.
Now Jesus came a long and died for our sins... we still have to repent and be sorry... but we don't have to kill goats.
Really... want did Jesus do? Saved he the Animals!
Because if we personally don't accept Jesus as our lord and savior... we'll doesn't matter how many goats we kill, we're going to burn in the white hot fires of hell and Satan - who is almost just as powerful as god because he can make us do evil things - will stick red hot pokers... well.. you know up our butts for eternity.
Yeah that all makes sense.
Freedom of choice.... believe in this theology because if you don't you're going to suffer forever and FOREVER!
Wow with that kind of arguement who would chose anything else.
By the way... believers in this religion there will be no premarital sex, no sex for pleasure... even though our entire body is designed for reproduction...there will be no nudity, no suggestive dancing or attire, there's no meat on fridays, there's no masturbation, no cussing, no cheating, no work on Sundays... even though the sabbath really starts sun down on Friday and continues until Sun down on Saturday... and there will be decorating of Christmas trees even though this is a pagan ritual adopted by Christians... and December 25th is not the birth of Christ according to the Orthodox Christian church, which celebrates his birthday on January 7th
Christmas was moved to December 25th to coincide with a pagan holiday. This got more pagans to celebrate Jesus' birthday. This move was one of the reasons why the church split in 1043.
The Roman god Mithras was born of the Sun God and a virgin mother, called "the Mother of God", on December 25th. Oh wow...sounds like the Virgin Mary.
Easter egg hunts come from ritutals celebrating the goddess Ostara, another god of fertility, and each egg represents a lover your child will have.
Christianity is an amalgamation of many pagan religions that existed during the time of its inception. It's true influence comes from the death and destruction that it's powerful benifactor the Roman empire under the auspicious of Constantine was able to coerce and cajour upon his subjects. Great example of mass mind control.
http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/ChristianOrigins/PaganChrists.html
