Cure-for-Christianity Knockout Quote, Number 36
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Christianity has succeeded because of the appeal of magical thinking. But the core briefs of this major world religion are shockingly bad, e.g., God set up a human sacrifice scheme to enable forgiveness of sins—and eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the human sacrifice will guarantee eternal life. Could it get any worse? Snap out of it.
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Please STOP Calling him "saint" Paul, Episode 3
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Just a few verses in Romans 7 reveal that the apostle Paul was a deeply damaged person. “Belonging to Christ” was the goal he advocated, but he couldn’t seem to manage it himself. He left too much bad advice and bad theology in his wake.
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Please STOP Calling him "saint" Paul, Episode 2
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We get a strong taste of Paul’s bad theology in one of the earliest Christian documents, his first letter to the Thessalonians. In the fourth chapter he promises them a meeting with Jesus in the clouds, in which both living and dead Christians will take part. This is fantasy theology, based on his hallucinations. Comic book writers who create flying super-heroes know they’re making up stuff for good fun, but Paul was serious. He failed at reality-based thinking.
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Required Homework for Christians, Episode 11
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Every religious fundamental you take for granted: try to find out where it came from. Who thought of it first? What can you do to verify it? All priests and preaches ask their followers to accept received beliefs on faith. But serious research and study usually uncover the human origins of “sacred truths.” Reliable, verifiable, objective evidence is missing.
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Things We Wish Jesus Hadn't Said, Episode 40
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No matter how much preachers stress feel-good Bible verses, the vengeful God of the Old Testament didn’t get a makeover when Jesus came along. He’s right there in the words of Jesus, some of which are really bad.
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Bible Blunders & Bad Theology, Episode 23
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We're out of luck trying to find substantial moral teachings about marriage in either the Old or New Testaments. In fact, both Jesus and the apostle Paul are a disappointment.
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Bible Blunders & Bad Theology, Episode 22
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Close scrutiny of the Sermon on the Mount reveals that it was not preached by Jesus. It is the literary creation of Matthew, to compensate for the lack of moral teaching in Mark; Luke decided to modify and abbreviate it, and the author of John’s gospel ignored it altogether.
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Please STOP Calling him "saint" Paul, Episode 1
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The gospels are supposedly about the “good news,” but the letters of the apostle Paul are actually bad news. He wrote too much bad theology, had bad attitude, and was given to magical thinking. What a shame his writings ended up in the New Testament.
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Required Homework for Christians, Episode 10
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The scene of Baby Jesus in the Manger is so familiar, but take a close look. The Matthew and Luke birth stories fail the test of history, and cannot be reconciled: the Jesus story gets off to a bad start.
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Things We Wish Jesus Hadn't Said, Episode 39
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Jesus gets demerits for scolding the disciple who was skeptical. It’s a virtue to be skeptical: Don’t settle for anything other than objective evidence. Always be suspicious of claims made by holy heroes.
info_outlineSince Christians don’t bother to read the Bible carefully, they’ve bought the hype that “God is love.” In fact, the Bible is Exhibit A in showing that God’s supposed love is eclipsed by wrath. There’s too much nasty, vengeful theology in the thousand pages of Christian scripture.