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Jesus was anti-religious

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02/10/2009

Jesus, the supposed son of a deity said to be a god himself, was actually anti-religion himself. Using only the bible as a reference, if one looks at all the passages where Jesus is supposedly quoted in parables and word-for-word renderings, it is apparent that Jesus’ purpose was to tell listeners about the evils of organized religion and the hypocrisy of organized religions.

Jesus came to knock down the evil corrupt organized religion of the time. Why would he desire that another organized religion be erected in his honor? “Pray to your god in private” he said, yet modern christians build churches. Jesus’ actions in the temple show his distaste for organized religion: he created a commotion in the temple where money was being made in the name of god. Today, modern christians make money in the name of god by the fistfuls. The catholic papacy and all under him are a form of a monarchy that gathers tithing from the bottom up, feeding the machine in Rome. Jesus said “give to cesar what it cesar’s and give to god what is god’s.” Cesar’s head was on the money, so it is safe to suppose that Jesus was not telling anyone to give money to a god or an organization in the name of a god.

Jesus said that the Pharisees were hypocrites for saying one thing and doing another. Modern Christians do the same: telling their followers not to judge others, but turning about and judging other religions and non religious. Jesus said “remove the beam from your eye before you remove the splinter from your brother’s eye”. Modern Christianity produces child molesters, serial killers, and confused outcast homosexuals, yet they scream to the world that religion produces strong families and obedient social citizens.

It is time to call them out on this. Even if they want to ‘play by their rules’ christians are doing a poor job of it. I would argue that an atheist would be more informed as to how a follower of Jesus should live his/her life than a christian would.

  • noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)

    I agree with you in that Jesus was anti-religious. I also see you point that out of the Christian religion has come child molesters, serial killers, and homosexual outcasts. But, it goes deeper than that. Jesus was anti-religious because it was humanity’s attempt to earn their way into heaven. Which cannot be done. It is only by grace (accepting His payment on your behalf) that you get into heaven. Just as then, there are today “Pharisees”; hypocrites, but I sincerely doubt that all Christians behave like that all the time. It’s fallacious argument. It’s a stereotype, although true in some cases, cannot be applied to all. (I would challenge you to produce statistical evidence that this is true across the board). Lastly, those who are serious about their faith (not religion; there’s a difference) would welcome the criticism you suggest. It would only help to point out our flaws and sins, so that we may bring them to Jesus, repent and ask forgiveness. Those that reject helpful criticism and continue to be hypocrites and sin…well I would say they have bigger things to worry about. They could be closer to hell than they realize.

  • noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)

    No one is saying “that this is true across the board”. Every group has a subset of people who do bad things. The point is that in many religious groups there are so many taboos and superstitions; that hypercritical undergrounds and lavish theaters of worship develop.

    Gay priests have no outlet for their feelings so they pray on young boys. Mega church leaders funnel millions of dollars into their own pockets. Suicide bombers kill in the make of god. Fundamentalists persecute their neighbors. Religion and faith can be used to justify atrocities as well as charity’s.

    There is no important difference between the religious and the faithful. Both blindly follow, both are willing to believe illogical claims, both are able to justify terrible things in the name of god. The differences you point out are only semantics and logistics. In the bigger picture you belong to the same club.

  • http://LiberatedMind.com noreply@blogger.com (Writings of a Liberated Mind)

    I agree with you that it is not true that all religious people directly produce evil. However, following the same religion as those who do and defending the same beliefs as those who molest children, bomb buildings and encourage “end times” only helps in perpetuating and uplifting those crimes against humanity and reason. The person who has “faith” in the same god as the child molesting priest still has to prove to a rationalist that their god exists. Faith is the absence of reason. It is believing in something without proof or evidence. This is true for an evil person as well as one who professes good intent. Lack of proof coupled with malicious intent or radical behavior is what harms physically. Lack of proof coupled with indoctrination is what stifles reason and suppresses rational thought… which opens the door to radical behavior that harms physically. Misinformation and superstitions lead to terrible crimes against humanity in whatever package it comes in.