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ekZepp May 1, 2024

"If Christianity is man made, why does everything about it go against man’s desires? Atheists can't answer this question" ...but I Can

https://lemmy.world/post/14898587

"If Christianity is man made, why does everything about it go against man’s desires? Atheists can't answer this question" ...but I Can - Lemmy.World

If Christianity is man made, why does everything about it go against man’s desires? Does Christianity go against man’s desires? If so, is that evidence for Christianity? I answer this question, discussing the history of Christianity, the cognitive science of religion, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and more. The whole “atheists can’t answer this question” and “atheists can’t explain this” thing is really getting old.

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CameronDev May 1, 2024

“Thou shall not kill” - God

“What!? But that goes against my base desires!” - A “christian”

Most people have no trouble following Christianitys rules, and if you struggle without Sky Daddy watching your every move, maybe your a bad person.

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FuglyDuck May 1, 2024

i dunno. the whole glutony thing. the orgies thing. those can be kinda fun until you’re fat and have more STD’s than are known to medical science.

the reality is religion- including Christianity- is a form of social control. the rules were established specifically to control people. men, sure. but women especially.

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CaptainSpaceman

Christianity specifically was also an amalgamation of a lot of other popular myths and religions of the time, as well as the appropriation of various popular pagan rituals like Saturnalia (Xmas), Samhain (Halloween), and Oestara (Easter). Many of the saints fall under this too.

Social control + wrangling popular myths/legends/etc = the most perfectly profitable control mechanism for roughly 2000 years