Please register to participate in our discussions with 1.5 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Every Year around Easter, I come to the re-understanding and re-realization that I just don't like Christianity as a religion.
SO does that make me a negative person ? Am I the only one ?
No. I completely understand your sentiment. It's usually times like this that Christians in my neck of the woods get a little full of themselves and their religion. They find it to be a time where proselytization is of the essence and act as though telling everyone about their 2000 year-old zombie returning from the dead is of the essence.
In reality, it's probably the fresh spring air that does it. Down here, everything is blooming, the temperatures are warming up and people are in a generally cheery mood. I guess the concept of trees, grass, flowers and other vegetation returning from the dead after each winter reminds them of their own brand of mythos.
Location: kind of North of the middle of nowhere, FL
2,002 posts, read 710,584 times
Reputation: 1574
It seems like many, at least around this part of Florida, become more "Smug" than usual this time of year.
Kind of reminds me of people who drive Hybrids and live in San Francisco and love the smell of their own farts.
WELL ok Joking aside, you get the idea.....
Anyway as a result of talk about Easter, my 8 year old came up (A few months back) and asked me "Did Jesus really come back from the dead?" (I think he had been next door talking to the Russians again)
So NO, not literally, and then he asks "well why do people say he did? " First I am glad I have an intellegent child. And good looking too. I married a great lady, what can I say. He got the best of her traits.
Seriously, I am going to put this over on another thread, How do you explain to a child about the merging of pagan myths with the superstitious life and beliefs of the early followers, along with revisionist mythology/history etc etc And symbolic of a rebirth, SPringtime (Easter season) Being a rebirth of life/ the cycle of seasons so NO Jesus did not Literally come back from the dead, but symbolically his memory and teachings live on....not to mention the fact taht the whole story is based on a fallacy a myth that we as humans were once "god-Like" but due to "original sin" we became human. And Jesus had to be sacrificed for sin, how this story evolved out of Jewish mythology and pagan sacrificial themes, and how science has shown that we were not like Gods some few thousands of years ago, rather the opposite, we were more like apes some 100 thousand years ago, so man is in a way better now more god like now than ever before....
There are a number of adults who cannot understand that, so how do I explain it to an 8 year old?
Meanwhile, Last Saturday, some religious fanatics were passing through the neighborhood, they saw my " no solicitors" sign and left. We always seem to get them going door to door this time of year.
Normally a good treatise on the virtues of DEISM and a lecture of the futility of religions sends them running, but I like the No Solicitors sign better. Saves me getting up and answering the door.
I find Christmas more annoying, just because we all have to become Christians for 2 weeks. I think we have too many holidays, in general. Christmas is simply for retail and commercial purposes. Perhaps they all are, or for a political agenda. I hate having to pay public servants for their leisure time.
Every Year around Easter, I come to the re-understanding and re-realization that I just don't like Christianity as a religion.
SO does that make me a negative person ? Am I the only one ?
There's nothing at all negative about it. I'd call it sensible.
Like another poster put it, I feel like that about religion all the time, but it does get intensified around holidays. It seems like a long time ago holidays weren't near as much commercialized as they are now. That makes it even more ridiculous. I don't believe in the birth of jesus so I certainly dont believe in his having risen from the dead. But the spirit of christmas and the spirit of other holidays is what I practice and celebrate.
Lets see, a loving, all=powerful, all-knowing God, that set in motion killing and wars that continue to this day and we celebrate his bring about the crucification of his son as the only way he could prove he was God. Nah, I think it means your heart and mind has a problem with this, and that speaks to your humanity.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $53,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 1.5 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
