GFox345 wrote:
Again, I don't understand why you would put "calling Christianity what it is" in quotations as if there were some sort of question at issue or implicit controversial claim in what I said. Is there something that you disagree with?
Because your implications went beyond calling Christianity what it is and well into editorializing. Is Christianity a Bronze Age institution? Not really, unless you consider its Jewish roots. As pancakes says, it's more of an Iron Age religion. Is Christianity based primarily on the sacrifice of a human life? Yes, I guess it could be said that way. If I was being a smug asshole, I would have said that Christianity was based on following a pathway to zombi-ism, but I was only agnostic for a few years, so my sharp wit hasn't been developed by years on /r/atheism.
However, your thematic implication that Christianity is a backwards blood cult certainly isn't lost on me.
I admit to a certain degree of smugness, but it seems to me that it is far less smug to poke fun at someone's ridiculous belief system than to presume that my decision whether or not to attend law school is of any interest to the omnipotent creator of the universe if such a being exists. Just a thought.
You've convinced me, I bow to my postmodern humanist overlords now.
