Ludea Kriss

The criticisim of Christianity as brought forth by Nietzsche can be summed up in a sentence: "Christianity has stifled the growth of humanity by allowing self sacrifice to undermine natural selection."The counter argument that humanity is benifited by the strong supporting and sustaining the weak is proven wrong by the test of time. The more we support nations and peoples who are needy, the more wars we wind up fighting against them when their ideology does not agree with ours. We they imagine themselves as strong and attack us in what ever capacity they can derive from their abilities we have to expend strength, and our youth, to neutralize the people we once fed and hospitalized and educated. No bigger evidence of this blunder is more obvious than the Bin Laden, Afghanistan assistance we contributed in the 1980's!It barely took 10 years for them to turn on us. (1992 WTC bombing).Christianity assumes that the eternal is more important than the now. Christs 11th commandment that we 'love one another' was innovative 2000 years ago and now its the catch phrase for every endeavor thought out or not, that launches itself from the minds of those who see a hand of god at work in their altruism.
My own iconoclasim comes from the observation that the world is a more dangerous place because science, technology, and intelligence are constantly being overthrown by tradional religious beliefs and scientists have had to be criminals in order to save our lives. Witness the church's stand on surgery, astronomy, physics, genetic research. The Christian Morality is a blight on the progress of humanity. And Christiany boldly says it means to smash humanity to pieces because all men are created to serve the creator and HE alone is the healer, and discoverer, and teacher of the world. Left to itself you wouldnt have an anti-biotic to cure your pneumonia because God's selection of the healthy and the sick is better left to Him than some doctor and his perscriptions, or natural selection. Instead of raising your hands in praise you should be throwing up your hands in disgust. Now we are engaged in a dirty little war with a religion that sees us as the big brother of the hated jews. Or maybe they see us as the Jews themselves in another land. We on the other hand see their land as sacred because it contains a lot of oil. This hatred is not going to go away anytime soon. The Arabs know how to hold a grudge. The sad thing is all this mess is based on religions, who's is right and who's is wrong. When in actuality none of it exists at all.
I've heard the ghost stories. I read all about the healings. I've heard Kathryn Kuhlman, and Corrie Ten Boom heal and preach respectively in my time. I've seen visions and dreamed dreams. But only because Im alive and well. And my brain works and has regions untouched. Areas of nonuse, and ability yet untapped. All squashed by the presence of 'conviction' and original sin. Let me tell you. None of my sins were original. Do I want someone raping my children? No! Do I want someone stealing my property, or my goods, or screwing my wife? No. If society is left to devolop as it is then we need cops. We cant escape the situation because we created it.Is the heroic lifestyle the best and only way to live? Possibly. A cop or a fireman is worth millions more than a professional athelete. In reality the cop and the fireman recieve 1/100th of the money and fame and recognition of the professional athelete.
Is God the reason we have them? No. The heroic lifestyle is the reason. The fight to win, to see your enemies vanquished, and resistance wane.This is why we have cops and firemen. They want to be cops and firemen. Hence we have laws and apollonian ways in this country. It is said that the moral law is written on the hearts of every man. Mencken says 'no'. I agree. I cant see a moral law written on the heart of a child molester, an illegal drug producer, a pimp, a crooked politician, a whore, an addict, or even in myself. Everything I learned about morality came from the church. Either by my parents or the church itself. The church obtained moral law from experience and put it into the mouth of God. There it had more permanence. There it was mythed into becoming all penetrating and all knowing. But crime goes on. And it gets worse all the time. Of course the fundamentalist says this was all predicted. That the end of the world will be represented by gross misconduct. Then god will save the faithful and raise fromt the dead the departed faithful.
how fanciful!
how ludicrous.
Bowe