Is there any Christian belief that's caused as much harm as the belief that masses of the mediocre are holding back some intellectual elite from achieving utopia?
Do you know the difference between a blighter and a blighted?
Christianity and it hawkers (e.g. popes and bishops and priest etc.) are the blight and blighters... Christians are the blighted.
And blights do not affect all... the plague had many victims but many did not get blighted.
Just because some do not get blighted by the blight does not mean the blight and its disseminators (the blighters) are not a blight.
And the blighted are to be pitied... the blighters and blight are to be execrated not loved.
So... Let me get this straight.
You DON'T like Christians?
Is that your point?
Don't get all adjectival at me!Now, now, no jumping to conclusions.
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It's not actually that easy to separate the blighters and the blighted.
The blighted act on their beliefs. For example they vote the blighters into office again and again.
And they send in their tithes and offerings to ministries that urge the oppression of the current hate target, whipping boy, suffering servant, scapegoat, etc. (Jesus wasn't enough.)
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They know not what they do, and they don't want to know.
How would you, practically, "execrate" the Blighters?
Now, now, no jumping to conclusions.
Is there any Christian belief that's caused as much harm as the belief that masses of the mediocre are holding back some intellectual elite from achieving utopia?
CS Lewis said:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Thomas Jefferson said:... the priest has been hostile to liberty. he is always in alliance with the Despot abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. it is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them...
By exposing them to the blighted so that they would know despite them not wanting to know.
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In what way is the below an objective fact?
Jesus the lascivious voyeur enjoying his lecherous priests' villainy in their rectories.
...what is believed by Christians?
...state what Christians believe ...
Stating facts about Christianity.
- Your quote is incomplete... I said:
Christianity: Jesus the lascivious voyeur enjoying his lecherous priests' villainy in their rectories.- I did not say it is an objective fact... I said
However.... here are three objective facts....
- Lecherous christian bishops and popes and priests have done and are doing all sorts of sordid deeds in their rectories and elsewhere all the time.
- Nothing is stopping those sordid villains from REPEATEDLY carrying out their licentious crimes and other crimes
- With very few exceptions, no punishment is meted out to those hideous dastards... and definitively not by any Jesus.
Christians believe Jesus is god who sees and hears everything all the time.
Therefore Jesus clearly sees and hears all the above crimes. And since he clearly is not stopping or punishing those crimes done by his peddlers and in his headquarters under his gazing eyes then he clearly approves of the crimes and does not mind watching them being carried out.
And since these crimes have been occurring under his gaze for millennia repeatedly and interminably... and he has never lifted a finger to stop them... then he must also enjoy watching those crimes.
Hence....
Christianity: Jesus the lascivious voyeur enjoying his lecherous priests' villainy in their rectories.
Stating facts about Christianity
That works, sometimes.
I suppose you'd say the ones who still cling to their oppressors and oppressive beliefs in spite of all information, are blighters themselves.
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Carry on, Leumas. You're right. Christian beliefs are a grotesque blight.

Not all anti-Christian polemic is to the mark, correct, or actionable.
So go easy when someone suggests a given argument has flaws or won't have any impact for reasons.
But you do not think that religion and religionists are already doing tremendous harm by actually doing tremendous harm not just talking?
You think WORDS against the harm doers do harm... but actual harmful ACTIONS are ok?
How about reading REALITY and news papers... do you feel compelled to defend humanity and democracy and REAITY against the harmful ACTIONS and doings and machinations and venality of the religionists and religions DOING actual harm not just talking?
Yes... that is called cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.... do you think it is rational or SANE to do such things?
From where I stand most harmful actions come from new wave fascists and populists. Christians are mostly committed to democracy, and even then in my lifetime the power of christian political parties went from a major factor in politics to a tiny minority.
....In fact, as I mentioned, harm to democracy here comes from populists and new wave fascists.
... None of your posts come across as rational or even very sane. To me your posts feel similar to a raving Christian proclaiming hellfire and doom on a street corner.
... a raving Christian proclaiming hellfire and doom on a street corner.
So I'm going to take it that your answer to my question "You DON'T like Christians?" is "yes".You mean like Jesus Christ... the Zombified human sacrificed ill begotten son of a celestial slave mongering, ethnic cleansing, racist bronze age tribal deity who loved Sumerian pimps and grifters above all of the rest of humanity?
I work with people who are Christian and none of them have harmed democracy....
... For example they vote the blighters into office again and again.
And they send in their tithes and offerings to ministries that urge the oppression of the current hate target, whipping boy, suffering servant, scapegoat, etc. (Jesus wasn't enough.)
They know not what they do, and they don't want to know.
- Your quote is incomplete... I said:
Christianity: Jesus the lascivious voyeur enjoying his lecherous priests' villainy in their rectories.
I think the above is best rebutted by
You know how the Christians Lukraak Sisser works with have voted?