Anonymous asked this question on 4/7/2000:
Christianity is a severe mental disorder that is cripilling the USA and preventing it from reaching its full potentional. What can be done about this serious disorder? What do you do when presented with a patient who exhibits the Christianity disorder?
sanam gave this response on 4/12/2000:
i'm not a christian. i am a Baha'i. As baha'is, we believed that all the independant world religeons are coming from the same God and bringing the same message for a different time and era. It's a pattern of progressive revalation. as people change, their beliefs and attitudes change, and they therefore need moral guidance from the same voice that has been giving them moral guidance since the beggining of time. we are accepting of all the religeons. Christianity is not a severe mental disorder. it is a religeon. religeon gives people a sense of faith and it gives life a purpose. why do you think it's a disorder?
Anonymous asked this follow-up question on 4/15/2000:
The DSM shows that Christianity is schizoprenia. Seeing and hearing things that are not there is part of the disorder. Christianity has always held back science. We would be so much further advanced without religion. Christians are always interfering in areas they have no understanding of, like politics and law. Most wars involve Christians. The main thing is how to fight it. If Christians could be convinced to understand how sick they are we might have a chance, but as long as the preachers and ministers can fleece the flock without working they will not allow their sheeple to be released.
sanam gave this response on 4/15/2000:
"Seeing and hearing things that are not there is part of the disorder." I think by this you are referring to the metaphors in the Christian writings. yes, there are a lot of metaphors and yes, some people DO take them very seriously. i mean, personally i find it hard to believe that Christ is going to return Floating on a cloud. if you look at all of the things said in the Bible, and look at them as metaphors, everything makes more sense. And no, we would not be much further advanced without religeon. if you REALLY REALLY read hard and really understand religeous writings....literally and metaphorically, you'll see that Science and religeon actually agree. our religeon belives this (that science and religeon agree). i mean, look at technology. computers and telephones have made it easier to communicate with the people of the world, and therefore are making it easier to eliminate prejudice. the same is true with travel. instead of fearing the people of another land, its convinient to hop on a plane and travel to that place and understand the cultures instead of fearing them.
but even if you still think it's a Severe Disorder, you said in your follow-up question, "Most wars involve Christians. The main thing is how to fight it. If Christians could be convinced to understand how sick they are we might have a chance, but as long as the preachers and ministers can fleece the flock without working they will not allow their sheeple to be released." and what im asking you right now is, what would be the alternative? i mean, if YOU could press a button right now and make christianity non-existent, what would be the replacement of it?
Anonymous asked this follow-up question on 4/15/2000:
If there was a God of love for whom "all things are possible" there would be no getting better because we would be there from the beginning. Of course it's possible to twist the words of the Bible into metaphors, but where to you stop? Is the whole Bible metaphors? What is God a metaphor for? Christians claim to see and hear God and angels. That is not a healthy state of mind. You bring up a good point at the end. Are you suggesting that if we eliminate Christianity the flock will simply go elsewhere to be fleeced?
sanam gave this response on 4/15/2000:
human's aren't perfect. human's make mistakes. this is a well known fact. never in my life have i met a perfect human being. there are also lots of people in the world. when people make mistakes, and other people make the same mistakes, they form groups of people who are making the same mistake... and thats how wars start. thats how hatred and unacceptance starts. and this is when God sends down guidance for us through his messengers. human's will never be perfect, but they will always need guidance. there is a God who loves us, and that is why he sends down the messengers for us. God is not a metaphor. God is the Creator. ok, take a painting for example. the painting didn't just appear out of nowhere. the painter painted the painting and left his own beauty inside the painting. God is the painter, we are the paintings. i am not suggesting that christianity be eliminated, i'm asking you what you think the world would be like without it.
Anonymous asked this follow-up question on 4/23/2000:
God has the ability to do "all things." From that we know that everything is just as he wants it. What we don't know is why God wants people to hurt others and why God wants us to be at war. The world is in such a mess that we could only be better off without Gods "love." You do bring up a good point about needing a creator. How can anybody look at the power and majesty of God and so that he came from nowhere? The same people would find a ticking watch in the sand and assume it had always existed. Obviously God had a creator, and the creator of God had a creator, and so on. We should worship the creator of the creator of the creator..............of the creator of God. Obviously the world would be far better off without Christianity as long as it wasn't replaced by something worse.
sanam gave this response on 4/24/2000:
if you look throughout history...it's not GOD that makes us go to war. it's God's people. people are prone to making mistakes, and war is a big mistake. people forget that nonviolent ways are better in peace-making instead of seeing who kills the most people. it's not God's fault...it's the fault of the people. that is why we need more messengers...to remind us in this day and age what the right way is. to remind us that killing leads to nothing but more killing. that we are all the same.
Anonymous asked this follow-up question on 5/14/2000:
It's the fault of the people, and the people are the fault of God. Regardless of any blame, God is in error if he refuses to use his power to fix everything up. We are no better off with God than if there was no God. I don't believe that a God would be as stupid as Christians claim.
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