Jesus: Messiah or Myth? - Book - Page 50
I should’ve been shocked, but really wasn’t, when I
recently heard an ex-pastor on a podcast say that he had
received death threats after he left the church and began to
speak out against Christianity. He also said a deranged Jesus
freak threatened to harm his family and one guy even
showed up at this front door to, “straighten him out.”
The pastor admitted he was a bit unnerved by all the
vitriol directed at him but was not deterred from his
mission. He laughed and said, “If these people were trying to
get me to go back to Christianity, this was not the way to go
about it. I can’t even imagine sitting next to them at church.”
I had pointed out earlier in this book that there is
something very wrong with a belief system that produces
followers who hate everyone who doesn’t agree with it. I’m
not saying Christians are this way across the board but many
of them are and one has to wonder why.
I titled this book, “Jesus: Messenger of Madness,” partly
because I have witnessed and heard about Christians doing
very bad things in the name of the god they serve. I believe
one of the core reasons for this backwards thinking is their
lack of accountability. If Jesus already wiped out every sin
they committed in the past, as well as all of their
transgressions in the future, why should they worry about
how they behave or treat others?
Obviously there’s plenty of truly good Christians, who
try their best to follow the example of Jesus, treating others
with kindness and respect. But even these
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