Enlightenment, spirituality, faith — there’s nothing wrong with these things.

Organized Christianity is a social climbing scheme for people who desperately want to get away with never needing to truly outgrow their dysfunction. That’s why organized Christianity is popular with bigots, abusers, and people who hate the mirror.

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
    91·
    9 hours ago

    they’d be lining up to pay for their sins

    The whole point of Christianity is we don’t have to do that. Sure, we need to repent and do what we can to avoid sin, but the actual paying for it has been done by Jesus.

    • PalimpsestNavigator@midwest.socialOP
      26·
      8 hours ago

      Untrue. The point of Christianity is to deify the right parietal lobe as godly communication and answer to no one’s definition of right and wrong besides the one the “Christian” accepts. It’s anarchic social climbing disguised as spiritualism. The rest is a lie you tell yourself multiple times a day, every day, until it destroys your sense of self.

      • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 hours ago

        The best I can do to make sense of what you’re saying is that you’re looking at some of the worst of church leaders (eg. MAGA pastors in America, historical popes, etc), and seeing Christianity as that. If I’ve got that wrong, please correct me.

        If that’s what you’re saying, that’s a massive over generalization, to the point where it’s willful. I do agree that there are church leaders out there who see leading a congregation purely as a way to gain some authority, but that is far from all of Christianity.

        • PalimpsestNavigator@midwest.socialOP
          24·
          7 hours ago

          It substitutes decisions made from best judgement to decisions made from a myth based on ancient mysticism and a canonization process decided upon by a bunch of people born hundreds of years after materials were written. No one who is a supposed Christian is making moral judgements or bashing their life and lifestyle on anything besides a group consensus and a charismatic, designated thinker.

          It erases a person, especially in first world white churches. POC Churches function as a local government in many ways, which shifts the brutality of social climbing based on popularity and conformity to principles that are ultimately based in hate. It subjugates the person until they want their enemies to die in eternal hellfire. It’s sick.