by R.A. Scott

Created on: May 27, 2008

Christianity is an amazing subject. If you want strong dissenting opinions look to God. Christianity breeds so much controversy that religious tomes can cause wars. Fortunately, here it's only a war of words.

Accepting Christianity is always a matter of suspending your hold on reality. A read of the bible, and I have read it, shows you just too many stories cause you to shake your head and wonder what the writers were smoking or maybe they had a little too much vino, which was a staple drink.

I can't help but believe that any thinking person with an IQ over 100 has to roll their eyes at the biblical tales. Mother goose has many tales which are unbelievable too. Why don't people believe the Mother goose as being a literal truth?

There are some many stories within the bible that listing and talking about each would take so much time and prove so little. Regardless of how much logic one might bring to the debate it is still amazing that people willing through their brains out the window. Yet in other situations they can prove to be brilliant.

Christianity demands that you eschew science especially science regarding life and how we all got here. They cringe and recoil in fear when they find out their children are going to be taught that nasty thing called evolution! Again Christianity demands that its practitioners put their brains in an envelope and mail them to God, cod of course.

There are other aspects of science and thought that Christians decry because it does not meet their biblical standards. The problem here is that biblical standards are so much lower than scientific standards as to be nonexistent.

People of the Jesus cult throw all of this nonsense upon their children. These parents are forcing their children to become dumb when they pass on their love of the bible and hatred of science. This is no good for the country whatsoever.

The United States of America is the only country on the planet where people deny science and try to replace science in the classroom with fairy tales. There are plenty of countries around the world who find this argument silly and a waste of time. They also wonder if years from now they are going to have to deal with Americans who have a substandard education in a lot of areas than they do.

It's clear that I don't see morality as any kind of impairment to becoming a Christian. Morals can be taught and learned, if you don't know them already and I think most people do.

Being forced to put your brain in a box to become a Christian is the most difficult thing to do. I grew up questioning the world, questioning life and questioning God. All this questioning led to thinking and this thinking and questioning are things I do today. As a result, I refuse to stop questioning and thinking just to become a Christian. It's sad that so many people stop thinking and questioning.

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