Actually, Christianity is easily understood & followed — if you truly believe it.
The Superficiality of Christianity
A recent comment by Sarah Abram on my article “White Christians & MAGA The Cult” contained several points I wanted to address. Abram’s argued,
Christianity is very much misunderstood. It’s not simple at all. It requires selflessness to deny one’s feelings and physical desires for the good of others.
I disagree. Christianity is not at all misunderstood. It is in fact easy to understand if you turn off your imagination and critical thinking skills and wholesale buy the narrative:
A few thousand years ago, an omnipotent being created the universe with a single planet to hold all life, most importantly, human life, which He determined them superior, gifting His people dominion over all creatures, but then, grew tired of their evil ways and destroyed most of them with a great flood since they decided to ignore His Word, yet unsatisfied, He later immaculately impregnated a married woman with his only son who matured into a religious leader performing miracles (because he was the son of God, of course), but spreading the Good News would not suffice, and he had to be murdered for making the blind see and curing the diseased because the infinite wisdom of his father (God) determined painful crucifixion the only means to cure the world of sin.
Believing this story, or at least believing you believe this story, trains a person in mental gymnastics that allows vaulting from one incongruous thought to the next, never considering how this mythology requires “selflessness to deny one’s feelings and physical desires for the good of others”, and more importantly, why so many Christians act in complete contradiction of that principle?
Perhaps they have not studied enough the simple yet contrarian prose called the Bible, and all its many biblical brands claiming the truth. This could not possibly mean bibles are as meaningful as silly putty in the hands of a believer applying scripture to prove whatever they wish to believe:
Capital punishment — an eye for an eye.
Capital punishment — turn the other cheek.
Capital punishment — thou shalt not kill.
No, this cannot be correct! The Word of God must hold a deeper meaning!
Perhaps it is as Sarah Abram claims, “The majority of people who identify as Christian have never perused the truth that is revealed supernaturally.” This makes perfect sense since magic is the only thing that can align scriptures’ uneven bars. Yes, magic is surely needed to make sense of the book that demands everyone love thy brother but only certain ones who properly use their penises and vaginas.
In the minds of the believers, these thoughts allow one Christian to be pro-death and another pro-life. Scripture instills the Christian mind with the truth about racism: morally correct or incorrect — because it’s in the Bible! This is the reason Christians can claim or deny authenticity of other Christians despite all of them using nearly the same Book and belief system. Trapped in culture of flimsy morality, they see any divergence from their truth as the path to doom:
But to let the hypocrisy, jealousy and ignorance of others taint my being would contradict what my spiritual leader taught me to be. Because to be mired in hate curses not blesses me with what is good. When we label and slander others we cooperate with evil itself.
It is a self-righteous cage claiming anything outside is evil. If you disagree with Christianity, you are slandering Christians and hating them. They avoid “hypocrisy, jealousy, and ignorance of others”, for that could “taint” their “being”! So they ignore millions of Christians, (they deemed inauthentic), allowing them to run roughshod over civil rights, the Constitution, and individual rights in an effort to harm the most at-risk and least powerful groups with their loosely-conceived, scripture-backed reasons for hate.
To say Christianity is a recursive ignorance is too kind.
Let’s be clear: Christians are some of the most immoral people on the planet because their beliefs allow them to believe anything, and at the same time, excuses them from any accountability for their religion. Nothing is more repugnant than a person claiming spiritual and moral enlightenment while ignoring the evil produced by their religion.