Why I Am Not a Christian Easter Thoughts

April 16 Why I am not a Christian Easter Thoughts

On Easter Sunday, I often think about Christianity 
I don’t understand why anymore would believe such nonsense

The essential story makes no sense
An imaginary all powerful deity that no one has ever seen or heard
Except for psychotic patients or Drug users 
Comes down to earth and impregnates a married woman

Who has never had sex for some reason
And her husband is okay with that 
Believes her wild story

And still does not have sex 
Until after the baby is born

Then there is total silence 
Nothing about Jesus’s childhood

30 years later he emerges 
Preaching love, peace and brotherhood
And denouncing the corrupt temple leaders
And the Jewish leaders as well

The miracles also don’t make any sense
In the real world, you can’t turn fish into bread
Can’t walk on water
Can raise the dead etc. etc.

Just does not happen 
In the world, we live in
And has not happen since those ancient days

Then the last supper makes some sense
Jesus knows he is about to be betrayed

But he does not confront Judas
Does not run away
Does not encourage his disciplines 
To run away with him

The whole Jesus Mary M story
Also, does not make sense

Jesus must have been married 
Or he was gay

There is no doubt 
Either way the story makes no sense

The crucifixion is the only part of the story I buy
Jesus was put to death because he was a rebel leader

And the Romans tolerated no dissent
To the Roman’s right to conquer and rule

The rising from the dead stories
All contradict one another

And Jesus was either walking as a normal human being
Or was a ghost

The door was rent open as if by lightening
Or not 

Finally, we have been waiting over 2,000 years for his return
You would think if the story is remotely true
He would have turned up by now

Except he has
As many lunatics claim to be Jesus 
in the flesh 

all delusional of course
and that is what I think of Christianity

nothing but fairy tales and mass delusions
surrounding a kernel of truth

Love one again
Treat each other right
Don’t be consumed with greed

But couldn’t that message 
Be made simpler
Without all the associated nonsense?

So, on this day I say
Open your minds 

And discard the nonsensical elements of Christian thought
And follow the true teachings of Jesus
Even if you don’t believe in the imaginary man in the sky

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Date: 3/14/2020 11:01:00 AM
One man's nonsense is another man's faith: for while it is true that believing something does not necessarily make it true, so too it is equally LOGICAL that not believing something does not make it untrue. You're right, jake, about following Christ's teachings: loving others as ourselves, thus ending war, crime, poverty, AND loving God--which is one way we can achieve the former, as my own experience as a former agnostic who found God the hard and very painful way can attest to.
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Date: 8/20/2017 2:02:00 AM
Study the Bible, that it's survived the ages is a miracle. Prophecies hundreds of years before came true. Jesus would be beaten, crucified mocked, and soldiers cast lots for his clothes. Read Isaiah 53. He is still a life changer 2000 years later. He is alive and real
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