1. Christianity is based on fear 2. Christianity preys on the innocent 3. Christianity is based on dishonesty 4. Christianity is extremely egocentric 5. Christianity breeds arrogance, a chosen-people mentality 6. Christianity breeds authoritarianism 7. Christianity is cruel 8. Christianity is anti-intellectual, anti-scientific 9. Christianity has a morbid, unhealthy preoccupation with sex 10. Christianity produces sexual misery 11. Christianity has an exceedingly narrow, legalistic view of morality 12. Christianity encourages acceptance of real evils while focusing on imaginary evils 13. Christianity depreciates the natural world 14. Christianity models hierarchical, authoritarian organization 15. Christianity sanctions slavery 16. Christianity is misogynistic 17. Christianity is homophobic 18. The Bible is not a reliable guide to Christ's teachings 19. The Bible is riddled with contradictions 20. Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions
This pamphlet briefly looks at many of the reasons that Christianity is undesirable from both a personal and a social point of view. All of the matters discussed here have been dealt with elsewhere at greater length, but that’s beside the point: the purpose of 20 Reasons to Abandon Christianity is to list the most outstanding misery-producing and socially destructive qualities of Christianity in one place. When considered in toto, they lead to an irresistible conclusion: that Christianity must be abandoned, for the sake of both personal happiness and social progress.
As regards the title, "abandon"—rather than "suppress" or "do away with"—was chosen deliberately. Attempts to coercively suppress beliefs are not only ethically wrong, but in the long run they are often ineffective—as the recent resurgence of religion in the former Soviet Union demonstrates. If Christianity is ever to disappear, it will be because individual human beings wake up, abandon their destructive, repressive beliefs, and choose life, choose to be here now. .. each is expanded upon in .. http://www.seesharppress.com/20reasons.html
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C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann... argue that repression (as opposed to conscious suppression) of destructive feelings gradually creates a "shadow," a negative force in the personality that can burst out destructively without warning. I anger you and you want to hit me in the face. You may recognize that urge and decide not to act upon it. That is conscious suppression. Or you may refuse to recognize the urge, insisting that you are too nice a person to feel that way. That is unconscious repression. The feelings you repress do not disappear, but are locked into the unconscious, where they may add to your hatred of yourself, producing ulcers or other suchj symptoms, or they may cause you to project your own repressed hostilities ontoothers. "The more {a person} represses his shadow, the blacker anddenser the shadow becomes," says Moreno. And Solzhenitsyn says: .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58565710
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