A Cult Called Christianity

People in cults allow themselves to believe farfetched stories. Why?  Because it gives them hope – it gives them a means to survive. This is understandable. We all have our own way of coping with the complexity of life and that which we do not understand.  The question is whether we lack understanding due to ignorance, delusion, or denial. The truth is: believing in something you would question as a child implies a far deeper ignorance than most are willing to admit.

Whether you relinquish logic, truth, or sobriety, the only true freedom is from the mind. These are all delusions we allow in order to make peace with our existence. Anything else is too real. We pad our lives with activities so that we can live in denial. Months pass. And then years. Only, some delusions are original and others are taught.  Some are called insanity, and others help to instill value. Some are fleeting while others ever-present. Some are alienating where others create a cult following.

It’s a trick. One becomes religious because they cannot control for change. When you’re behind something else, you do not need to control change. You let a set of values govern your fate because you do not have to direct change. Your life becomes a series of events that you live, and you just pray when you need change. You gather strength from your prayer and wake tomorrow and enact change. YOU enact change, and you then give credit to your religion. I am here to tell you: Religion is simply a state of conscientious behavior; religions are cults that use the need for this behavior, the need for a destiny. If positive things happen consistently in your life, it is a product of your behavior – not someone else’s.

Consistent behavior is addictive; straying from such seems aimless and wayward. So, people feel the need to know that there is a target destination. A destiny. Religions can provide that for people. Cults can provide that. Excluding those with malevolent/misguided intentions, what exactly is the difference between a religion and a cult? It is the size of the following, which is a product of its persuasion. For thousands of years, great fables written by incredible storytellers have changed people’s lives. While some are rooted in truth, the stories of the Bible now affect the lives of approximately 1/3 of the world’s population. Christianity is the biggest cult in the world. It is the most persuasive religion.

Do you remember the stories that you were told when you were a child? We all get told stories about the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy and Santa Claus.  These things were fun to believe in. Eventually, we all realized that they did not exist. We realized that they were embellished stories and provided means to ends. Mythology and folklore both fall into the same category. The television show Paranormal Activity, after several seasons, still had nothing but faint whispers to show for its work. The Salem Witch Trials even had a scientific explanation.There is little out there that we accept without question. Christianity is a gaping exception to this rule.

So, the spread of the Christian belief system and the persuasion of the Bible is a social phenomenon. The Bible has stories that are just as embellished as the story of Santa Claus. Have you ever played the game telephone as a child? This is the game where you sit in a circle and, starting with a phrase, you whisper it in the next person’s ear. 15 people later, the phrase has changed drastically. That is only with 15 people. Extrapolate that over thousands of years. Add generations to the equation.  You cannot tell me that stories in the Bible were not subjected to the same errors in communication.

Still, arguing against century-old stories in the Bible would be taboo. Since I have my own morality, I’ve got nothing to lose…

…Stay Tuned for my version of the story of Jesus Christ