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Well, my whole life, I've lived in a society where organized Christianity has overwhelmingly been a force for evil, rather than a force for good. Fuck, I straight-up believe that most Evangelical Christians are devil worshipers. If your religion leads you to hate, you aren't worshiping God, you're worshiping the Devil.
Christianity is, by definition, a cult of human sacrifice.
Kinda puts the entire faith into perspective.
Death cult
They ritualistically eat the body and blood of their god/savior.
Let that sink in.
Well, they were in luck... he's only mostly dead. If he was all the way dead, it wouldn't have worked. but Mostly dead? Miracle Max can work with that.
Dooms day death cult.
Lead by Jesus, the dooms day death cult leader.
I hear he's a "good guy."
I don't think dooms day death cult leaders, make believe or not and I just mean a historical grifter non magical, are good people.
Suicidal Death Cult
They are actively doing everything in their power to bring about the end of the world.
When you're actively trying to bring about the end of the world, there's no more apt description.
Death Cult Armageddon, great Dimmu album. My parents got it for me along with Enthrone Darkness Triumphant for Christmas one year but they wouldn’t buy me Diablo II because Diablo “didn’t fit the theme of the holiday.”
In all fairness, Diablo has an entirely different lore than Christianity, I can see where they were coming from. We want to burn Yahweh, not Anu.
Not even a joke.
Cannibal death cult, If you take part in the sacrament. That is, quite literally, internally perceived as ritual cannibalism.
Not really; one guy died, by his own choice, but came back to life two days later. A real "cult of human sacrifice" would require it as an ongoing practice and for the victims to stay dead.
Jesus alone doesn't make it a death cult. It's a death cult because the whole religion is predicated on death. Dying is the entire point. Your entire life is a means to gain the rewards of dying and only then will you truly be happy.
So much wrongitude here I don't know if this is genuinely what you think or if you're just trolling.
Jesus came to earth so that we could know God, here and now. To nick someone else's quote: It's not pie in the sky when you die, it's steak on your plate while you wait. John 10:10: "I have some so that they may have life, and have it to the full."
I suggest you read the Bible some time. Start with the Gospels, either Luke or John. Not as a means to convert you, but so that you can understand what Christianity is really about, instead of spouting uninformed nonsense about it. You're currently the equivalent of those Christians who say the equivalent of "evolution is just a theory".
Your reward is in heaven right? So the endgame is death. You might get to eat steak while you are alive but you dont get the whole meal until you die. That's a death cult.
Just because there was only one sacrificial offering doesn't mean jesus wasn't a sacrificial offering.
The whole thing about jesus being both fully god and fully man is that no "normal" human would ever be sinless- and therefore would be an inadequate sacrifice. Therefore god became man- that is, jesus- whose sole purpose was to be a "perfect" sacrifice.
But isn’t the whole trinity thing God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit the same entity? So God sacrificed himself for himself… wouldn’t really call a two day nap for some eternal being a sacrifice either.
You're expecting it all to make sense. It's like a the lies a 2 year old tells to explain and justify having gotten into the chocolate cake, after having tried to lay it off like they hadn't (missing the whole having it all over their face thing,).
The longer they're allowed to go, and the more you poke holes the weirder it gets.
This was always my biggest struggle growing up in a catholic house. "He sacrificed himself to save everyone who came before and will come after."
Like, is that really that big of a deal? Shit if i was presented with the option of a much smaller number than infinity, idk say 1000, id sacrifice myself. AND i don't know that I'm god or that my father is god and that ill be taken care of for all eternity.
In all reality, that numbers way less than 1000 for strangers, and if you include anyone i know/care about, that number could be as low as 1.
He set ad and eve up, too. He meant for them to eat the dam fruit,
All so he could LARP as the White Knight™️.