How come Christianity isn't viewed as successful cult?
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bingo.
I don't care if he did or didn't exist, but he wouldn't be the first charismatic cult leader and he won't be the last.
Turk
Young, Gifted, and Black
Where's the proof dumbass?
There's an overwhelming amount of evidence for the existence of a historical Jesus. This is something the consensus of scholars agree on.
Now as far as him being born of a virgin, performing miracles, and etc? There's no proof of that, and it's something you have to accept on faith.
But a historical Jesus did in fact exist, a lot of things got embellished later on though.
Adam3000
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It is a cult, but if the people who practiced it were logical enough to realize it, they would already have dropped it years ago
The book of genesis is fukking comedy too. Talking snake and shyt
The book of genesis is fukking comedy too. Talking snake and shyt
It is a cult, but if the people who practiced it were logical enough to realize it, they would already have dropped it years ago
The book of genesis is fukking comedy too. Talking snake and shyt
Where there snake at I wanna ask him some deviant questions.
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the cac mamba
Veteran
noah living to be 900 years old after building that ark with the animalsIt is a cult, but if the people who practiced it were logical enough to realize it, they would already have dropped it years ago
The book of genesis is fukking comedy too. Talking snake and shyt
and i'm a bad guy for calling bullshyt on that
noah living to be 900 years old after building that ark with the animals
and i'm a bad guy for calling bullshyt on that
Not just the animals, but EVERY fukking animal and 2 of them all on one fukking boat.
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ThatTruth777
Superstar
because enough people believe in it
I was on the phone with my aunt today. Growing up as a kid, I looked up to her a lot. Her English was excellent since she was an English teacher, and I always wanted to be good at reading and writing partially because of that.
She taught at this Christian convent school, where most of the other teachers, especially the ranking ones, were nuns. None of us thought anything of it, but looking back it's obvious she had Christian leanings for a long time, because I never remember her going to a Hindu temple with the rest of my family. Anyway her husband died about 10 years ago and that tipped her over the edge, she went full blown Christian, formally converted, be in church every Sunday faithfully, and all that.
Before (bear in mind she lives in India and I don't, so I only see her or talk to her once every two or three years these days) we used to talk about literature and shyt, and how I was going to improve my grades at school. Now on the phone with her today all she talked was a whole bunch of religious crap... talking about "the grace of god is with you" and "it doesn't matter if you have nothing as long as you have gods blessing"
damn, what happened to you? I'm not trying to hear any of that Jesus talk!
So I'm saying Christianity is cult like and you can see that most obviously in converts:
She taught at this Christian convent school, where most of the other teachers, especially the ranking ones, were nuns. None of us thought anything of it, but looking back it's obvious she had Christian leanings for a long time, because I never remember her going to a Hindu temple with the rest of my family. Anyway her husband died about 10 years ago and that tipped her over the edge, she went full blown Christian, formally converted, be in church every Sunday faithfully, and all that.
Before (bear in mind she lives in India and I don't, so I only see her or talk to her once every two or three years these days) we used to talk about literature and shyt, and how I was going to improve my grades at school. Now on the phone with her today all she talked was a whole bunch of religious crap... talking about "the grace of god is with you" and "it doesn't matter if you have nothing as long as you have gods blessing"
damn, what happened to you? I'm not trying to hear any of that Jesus talk!So I'm saying Christianity is cult like and you can see that most obviously in converts:
- They get influenced heavily by other Christians, like my aunt and her teacher colleagues/superiors
- It's usually some traumatic experience that leads them to finally convert after years of pressure from Christians
- After they convert their former identity is virtually meaningless to them and all they can talk about is their new identity as Christians
Menelik II
I wanna see receipts!
Ah the coli atheists and pagans
Enjoy the life you have left
Enjoy the life you have left
Make your aunt's experience be the stereotypical way you view Christians brehs
I was on the phone with my aunt today. Growing up as a kid, I looked up to her a lot. Her English was excellent since she was an English teacher, and I always wanted to be good at reading and writing partially because of that.
She taught at this Christian convent school, where most of the other teachers, especially the ranking ones, were nuns. None of us thought anything of it, but looking back it's obvious she had Christian leanings for a long time, because I never remember her going to a Hindu temple with the rest of my family. Anyway her husband died about 10 years ago and that tipped her over the edge, she went full blown Christian, formally converted, be in church every Sunday faithfully, and all that.
Before (bear in mind she lives in India and I don't, so I only see her or talk to her once every two or three years these days) we used to talk about literature and shyt, and how I was going to improve my grades at school. Now on the phone with her today all she talked was a whole bunch of religious crap... talking about "the grace of god is with you" and "it doesn't matter if you have nothing as long as you have gods blessing"
So I'm saying Christianity is cult like and you can see that most obviously in converts:
- They get influenced heavily by other Christians, like my aunt and her teacher colleagues/superiors
- It's usually some traumatic experience that leads them to finally convert after years of pressure from Christians
- After they convert their former identity is virtually meaningless to them and all they can talk about is their new identity as Christians
I also base it off the JWs I see at my door. They can't talk about anything else. I could be talking about the weather or the wasp nest in my back yard and they'd find a way to bring it back to something about Jesus. JWs are also largely converts. If it was just people born into it their religion would grow at a snail's pace.
Converts of any kind will generally tend to be more zealous than people born into something because they will feel like they need to prove themselves and psychologically will want to disassociate from their past identity by doubling down on their present identity. So, looking at converts exposes which religions are cultlike and which ones aren't. You ever see Buddhist or Taoist converts running around on a mission to convert others like you see Christians and Muslims? There's something fundamentally wrong about the monotheist Abrahamic religions that makes their followers behave like this.
the cac mamba
Veteran
plus, its no coincidence that the vast majority of christians are only christians because it was forced on them by their parents. who had it forced on them by their parents, etcI was on the phone with my aunt today. Growing up as a kid, I looked up to her a lot. Her English was excellent since she was an English teacher, and I always wanted to be good at reading and writing partially because of that.
She taught at this Christian convent school, where most of the other teachers, especially the ranking ones, were nuns. None of us thought anything of it, but looking back it's obvious she had Christian leanings for a long time, because I never remember her going to a Hindu temple with the rest of my family. Anyway her husband died about 10 years ago and that tipped her over the edge, she went full blown Christian, formally converted, be in church every Sunday faithfully, and all that.
Before (bear in mind she lives in India and I don't, so I only see her or talk to her once every two or three years these days) we used to talk about literature and shyt, and how I was going to improve my grades at school. Now on the phone with her today all she talked was a whole bunch of religious crap... talking about "the grace of god is with you" and "it doesn't matter if you have nothing as long as you have gods blessing"
So I'm saying Christianity is cult like and you can see that most obviously in converts:
- They get influenced heavily by other Christians, like my aunt and her teacher colleagues/superiors
- It's usually some traumatic experience that leads them to finally convert after years of pressure from Christians
- After they convert their former identity is virtually meaningless to them and all they can talk about is their new identity as Christians
its no coincidence that you get taught that bullshyt at the same age you're impressionable enough to believe in santa. its literally the same exact thing
except santa doesnt have a bad, fiery place in the ground you should be afraid of