Hatred of religion

Judge a religion by its adherents, not by those who betray its principles.

The Invention of Lying.

Religulous.

"I hate the Church but love Jesus."

Hatred of "institutions"

"I hate organized religion."

"I hate organized medicine. Who is to say what medications and surgeries are safe and effective? Anybody should be allowed to do anything to anyone at any time. We don't need doctors, nurses, or certified technicians."

"I hate having an organized body that can detect and cure its own illnesses, recover from injury, and metabolize food. Life should be spontaneous and unlimited."

Jesus without the Church

What would we not know about Jesus if there were no Church?

• No gospels.
• No parables.
• No sayings.
• No "good news" of His saving death and Resurrection.
• No Baptism or Eucharist.
• No apostolic authority to sort out conflicting interpretations (e.g., Acts 15).

What would be the history of Jesus of Nazareth?

Roman history: We executed a man who claimed to be "King of the Jews." His followers promptly disbanded and were never heard from again.

Jewish history: The Romans executed a man who claimed to be God. That was the end of that.

"Kill Them All"

Needs a good name. Something derived from "Lump Them All Together"?

"Some atheist readers were offended…"

One of them does the standard sleight-of-hand trick of saying, in essence, “The murderers were Muslim, and by Muslim, I mean Christian.” This is magicked by the expedient of reducing all acts of Islamic violence to the work of “religion” and then declaring “religion” to refer to Christianity. He writes:

To imply that organized religious has furnished these people with the mental, physical courage to perform these acts of kindness to a fellow human being, seems a bit big; under the circumstances. The countless acts of barbarity and cruelty perpetrated worldwide every day, in the name of god, does not support this theory. Furthermore, was this very act of inhuman depravity not also committed under the cries of ‘God is great,’ even if uttered in Arabic?

In short, if you’ve seen one religion, you’ve seen ‘em all.