The Falsity of Religion: Twelve Indisputable Arguments
Hello,
First, let me discuss the works of Professor John Hartung. He is ethnically Jewish and was raised in a religiously Jewish family. He describes his qualifications:
"John Hartung is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and an Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at the State University of New York.
His Ph.D. is in anthropology from Harvard. About half of Dr. Hartung's publications are in social science, with the rest in medicine"
He discusses the historical origins of Judeo-Christianity. He states that today's Bible is not the same as the original religious texts. For example, many parts were made politically correct at various times of translation to make it more acceptable to the public. In fact, I recently was talking to a Rabbi and he told me that the Torah he uses is the original and is very different from the Torah of today's Bibles.
For example, the original Torah advocated a lot more violence and genocide than what is written in the modern Bible. Originally, the Jews of the Torah were supposed to pillage, rape, and exterminate non-Jews in order to ensure the purity of the Jewish people. Cultural and genetic contamination from Gentiles was something to be very careful of. But, today's Bible has these parts removed.
Also, Gentiles were not to be converted, because the original Jews were the only Chosen People of God.
Jesus Christ never pushed for the Conversion of Gentiles. At the time of Christ, Jewish society was no longer ethnocentric and Communist, but had transformed into Capitalism where Jewish elites betrayed the majority of Jews for their own gains. There was no unity and the Jewish community was failing. So Christ started preaching that for Israel to rise once again, they must abandon Capitalism and selfishness and return to ethnocentric Communism. Such a united society would then once again become prosperous.
It was the Israelite Saul who was kicked out of Israel and then decided to bring Judaism (Christianity) to Gentiles. He did this against the wishes of Jesus Christ. In other words, Jesus Christ never agreed to save the souls of the Gentiles, only the original Jews.
There is a lot more history that mainstream Christianity is unaware of. I have just provided a summary of Professor Hartung's research, but for the full research, go to his site at
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Now, here is the article that deals with the title of this thread:
The Falsity of Religion: Twelve Indisputable Arguments
By John "Birdman" Bryant
Religion today hangs on the horns of a dilemma: On the one hand, it is false in the scientific sense, as we shall demonstrate below; but on the other hand, because religion in one form or another has been around as long as recorded history -- and in fact has played a central role in man's social and personal life -- it is almost certain that religion is useful in the sense that it has helped men to survive. The real dilemma of religion, however, is that it must be believed in order to be useful, yet this is impossible when people know that it is false.
The obvious solution to this dilemma -- if indeed there is a solution -- is to discover what is useful about religion, and to try to make use of this knowledge. This I have attempted to do in my book The Most Powerful Idea Ever Discovered. But we will be stymied in our attempt to accomplish this task -- or at least to bring it to fruition in the sense of teaching others -- if we do not first and finally sweep away the foolishness of religious belief by making a plain and clear statement as to religion's literal falsity. Accordingly, we cite below what we view as twelve compelling reasons why a rational person must regard religion as false.
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Religion is humanity's search for an answer to the problem of God
Christianity is God's answer to the problem of humanity.
That said, Christ said: He who is not for me is against me.
Keeping things simple for those who are not caught up in the cliquishness of intelligentsia is what God desires most of all. Sin needs sacrifice to satisfy the holiness of God. Christ provides that sacrifice once and for all who in Faith believe in Him. Now I don't disrespect anyone else's view. And I would gladly argue for his or her right to state it here or anywhere. But each of us must realize that ultimately he or she will stand before the Judgement Seat of Christ. He will ask if we knew him. What will you say?
Allah on board for Heaven?
Actually I am liberal-minded enough to accept the possibility that God is bigger than any one sectarian perspective--but I am wise enough to temper that liberalism with an awareness that God is gracious enough to have provided a means by which all humans might make an informed decision for or against Christ. That is why the Christian Bible says that Christ will return for a church without spot or wrinkle only after the gospel has been preached throughout the entire world. With the Internet and the current state of missionary work mushrooming exponentially, that should not take as long as you might expect. So prepare yourself to make a choice; or make yours by default; either way, I hope you aren't so broad-minded that you allow your all your fuzzy gray matter to escape! Cheers to you to my friend.
Hey this is getting good! I like your challenging mind. But is your spirit awake?
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So you believe there is a supernatural entity called the Holy Ghost,
The Holy Spirit is part of the Tri-United Godhead: Christ the Son; God the Father; and the Holy Spirit.
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and this entity communicated with those 3 billion non-Christians, and they told the entity that they were not interested? And what was the method of communication? Was it through sound waves or telepathically or something else?
It was through spiritual means... you have a spirit and it is in contact with God's spirit right now as we speak. You are engaged in a spiritual battle. Your intellect is a part of your will that is seeking to ignore the exigencies of the Holy Spirit. But don't let your mind and your emotions and your will ruin your opportunity of knowing the living God. For God is Spirit and those who come to him must worship him in spirit and truth.
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So if we were to ask those 3 billion non-Christians if they were contacted by the Holy Ghost, they would say that indeed the Holy Ghost made contact with them and they turned it down?
I would never presume to speak for anyone else. They may make as many rationalizations as you have made, or none at all. They may live sensually. They may ignore the spiritual side of their lives entirely. Or they may choose to embrace another form of spirituality. How that affects their ultimate destiny only God can say. Judge not lest ye be not judged.
As for creation, and your question for specifics... imagine the lowly caterpillar who crawls and crawls until it is time to cocoon; the transformation that occurs is surely a symbolic representation of the ultimate spiritual freedom that Christians may one day receive through a personal relationship with God through Christ Jesus. This is only one example of the creation's messages many of which are abundantly clear.
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How can one believe in the existance of the Christian deities without the deities first producing the evidence? That would be like saying that one must first believe in the existance of Santa Clause, only then will Santa Clause provide evidence. This is impossible.
God is the God of the Impossible. Nothing is impossible with God. Everything from the miracle of birth and nature attests to His Reality.