If you are an atheist always complaining about Jews and Muslims who appear to have taken over your country, should it not be patently obvious what the people you complain about have that you yourself lack?
If the idea of worshipping an executed revolutionary as the co-equal of the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God fills you with revulsion and the idea that your ancestors were forcibly converted into this religion fills you with rage, does this not mean that the religion of your ancestors was an illegitimate religion cooked up by con men who are now largely known for their sexual scandals as Creatures of the Liberal State? If there are only two Abrahamic faiths for gentiles and the one you are identified with has already failed, what should you do?
Perhaps you should wonder if the Abrahamic God if He exists is capable of a sustaining a rather cruel practical joke for 2000 years and wondering when you will notice that a trick has been played on you. If you were paying attention or cared about the principle of the thing, you would have noticed by now.
The principle of the thing is:
If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?
Isn't worshipping a man idolatrous?
Isn't worshipping this man as the co-equal of the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God ipso facto idolatrous and blasphemous?
If Trinitarian doctrine sounds idolatrous and blasphemous, is it in fact blasphemous and idolatrous?
What do Jews and Muslims say about Christianity? What does the fact that Jews are forbidden to enter churches but allowed to enter mosques tell you about their attitude to what would be for them the capital offence of idolatry if the Torah were still followed? What was Christ crucified for? He was crucified for the blasphemy of saying that his papa was the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God who created the Universe and now exists outside it as pure spirit.
Atheists and nihilists who know what religion is for but do not wish to make the sacrifices their ancestors did - that of marrying and having legitimate children - will be avoiding the question. They avoid the question because the answer - that of replacing a broken moral system forbidden by God with one effective at maintaining minimum standards of sexual morality - is obvious.
If the idea of worshipping an executed revolutionary as the co-equal of the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God fills you with revulsion and the idea that your ancestors were forcibly converted into this religion fills you with rage, does this not mean that the religion of your ancestors was an illegitimate religion cooked up by con men who are now largely known for their sexual scandals as Creatures of the Liberal State? If there are only two Abrahamic faiths for gentiles and the one you are identified with has already failed, what should you do?
Perhaps you should wonder if the Abrahamic God if He exists is capable of a sustaining a rather cruel practical joke for 2000 years and wondering when you will notice that a trick has been played on you. If you were paying attention or cared about the principle of the thing, you would have noticed by now.
The principle of the thing is:
If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?
Isn't worshipping a man idolatrous?
Isn't worshipping this man as the co-equal of the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God ipso facto idolatrous and blasphemous?
If Trinitarian doctrine sounds idolatrous and blasphemous, is it in fact blasphemous and idolatrous?
What do Jews and Muslims say about Christianity? What does the fact that Jews are forbidden to enter churches but allowed to enter mosques tell you about their attitude to what would be for them the capital offence of idolatry if the Torah were still followed? What was Christ crucified for? He was crucified for the blasphemy of saying that his papa was the supreme and eternal Abrahamic God who created the Universe and now exists outside it as pure spirit.
Atheists and nihilists who know what religion is for but do not wish to make the sacrifices their ancestors did - that of marrying and having legitimate children - will be avoiding the question. They avoid the question because the answer - that of replacing a broken moral system forbidden by God with one effective at maintaining minimum standards of sexual morality - is obvious.
