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Christ Club
March 10th, 2007 at 02:36
The first rule of Christianity is that you do not ask questions.
The second rule of Christianity is that you do not ask questions.
The third rule of Christianity is that you do not post stupid sarcastic videos on Christian websites.
So I’ve been banned from GodTube. I probably should have expected that. I guess it’s no longer a case of me rejecting Christianity, and instead Christianity dumping me. They didn’t even have the decency to say “it’s not you, it’s us… we’re just not ready for the scientific method right now” – they just stopped returning my calls. Proverbially.
If there’s any Christians reading, I know you have trouble with not taking things literally: ‘proverbially’ means that it didn’t really happen, but it’s basically the same course of events or message transposed into a different narrative to illustrate a point.
I think I’ve just re-discovered (one of) the problem(s) with religion – I think it’s the lack of accountability. It’s as powerful a force in world affairs from international relations to the individual, yet unlike the politicians, and like the multinational corporations it doesn’t have to answer to anyone if it fucks up, and doesn’t have to justify its actions to the people it is ’serving’.
Religion seems to get a free pass despite the awful things it is doing to the world because it is perceived as untouchable – some ancient book has told its readers that it should wage war on people who believe a different ancient book with equally spurious origins. The Bible, the Koran and so on are cleverly written as they are self sustaining: encouraging readers to defend the book to the death against any difficult questions or scientific reasoning that contradicts it. By wrapping itself in a veil of moral guidance it hides a mechanism of control and gives itself a veneer of legitimacy that leaders have used throughout history to push their own agendas and consolidate their own power.
I think the worst thing about religion isn’t the illusion of a deity who can intervene in peoples lives or the wasted resources of humanity on building monuments to a God who doesn’t listen, but is the breeding of ignorance.
The removal of my videos, however stupid they were, is yet another illustration that Christianity is SCARED of tackling issues that question it’s foundations. Or maybe it just says that I’m just an arrogant twat poking my nose in on a website where I don’t belong.
Either way, Christians don’t want to address the questions that are most important to them: Where did we come from? Why are we here? What is going to happen next? How is the universe organised? Why are things the way they are? Every time science offers a rational explanation to some of the biggest questions, Christianity will be on the front lines fighting against it as it doesn’t comply with assumptions they made thousands of years ago. It’s only when the church is backed into a corner that they’ll re-read the one book they’ve been reading for their entire lives and magically discover that it does in fact allow for a heliocentric universe, or whatever.
Christians just don’t want to know when they’re wrong… or even if they’re right. The systematic discouragement of asking questions is terrifying for the future: if we’re not curious about the world we live in, then what is the point in the continuation of human existence?
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