AN OPEN LETTER TO THOSE WHO ARE INVITED TO BECOME CHRISTIAN
We all get outright invites to become Christian. Sometimes the Christian
thing is so much around us that it is easier just to convert for the sake of
playing along. Sometimes we become Christian by osmosis - being surrounded by
the Christian ethos can rub off on us. The invite is very subtle in that case!
Jesus wanted us to love God with all our hearts. The doctrine that we are to
love God most - is a hypocritical Christian distortion. In reality we are to
value nothing and to find nothing worth any concern or love but God. Jesus was
evil for as long as we love goodness who cares how much God is loved? He made
that command the major one while he commanded we only love our neighbour as
ourselves! Though we are told that you cannot love God without loving your
neighbour, we must remember that Jesus made it clear that love of neighbour
refers to action. You do good for your neighbour because you value God and
solely want to obey his command to help others. Only God alone is to be valued
and ultimately loved.
It is wiser to love a person with all your heart than a God for at least you are
more sure the person exists! If there is no God then you love your belief in God
not God. You are an idolater.
A command implies a threat. A command without a threat is not a command at all.
Jesus by commanding love proved he did not understand what love was. You cannot
command anybody to love. Christian "love" is toxic.
If you love God as much as you say, you will search for the religion that God
wants you to be in. That religion is not the Roman Catholic Church because it
makes serious errors.
Jesus is a religious role model not a humanitarian one. A religious role model
does miracles that help people while a humanitarian one gives away all he has
for the poor and he lives among lepers to wash and feed and tend them. Jesus did
none of that. Jesus if he did miracles that help people, did not do them to help
them. It was about promoting religious doctrine. His doctrines were religious
and he didn't try to combine religion and social activism like some priests do.
He was too heavenly to be of earthly use.
Many Christians are shocked at the thought that Jesus could have done miracles
as displays of power. They feel his ultimate and main purpose would be to show
how to love and to attract people to love. The message matters to them and not
displays of power. But you do not raise the dead to show people how to love.
That is plainly about power. If it is about love, you will devote your time to
the sick and dying. You will have an inexplicable influence even over evil
people that makes them turn into heroes of charity. That will be your miracle.
You may say that Jesus did that miracle but if he did how can we be sure? The
tales about Jesus doing magical things are a catastrophe and frankly are
nonsense. No wonder Jesus' alleged miracles did not always produce faith. The
lepers didn't have faith. By their fruits you shall know them.
A miracle of a man coming back from the dead after three days is as much magic
as him turning princes into frogs. Miracle believers and witches both say that
the purpose of such wonders is to console us that we are not at the mercy of
nature and that there is a greater power and the powers can help us become
better people. So don't say the difference between magic and miracle is that
miracle is about influencing us spiritually for our benefit. If there is a God,
he can change hearts quietly from within and does not need to do obvious
miracles. And if God exists he could have made a world of witches and wizards
and dragons. The rationality of the Church is a deliberately created illusion.
And if the Church is humble she will not see herself as great spiritually. To
say miracles happen to help people be in tip-top spiritual shape is to say you
know what this means and have experienced it.
It is bizarre to argue that there is sufficient evidence for the resurrection of
Jesus even without miracles such as the appearances of Medjugorje (soon to be
dismissed as non-supernatural by the Church). The fact is that the latter are
more convincing for there are more testimonies to that form of the supernatural
than there are for the resurrection. Reading between the lines, the Church only
pays hypocritical lip-service to the notion that you need evidence that miracle
testimonies are probably true. Nobody is interested if a brick starts
miraculously talking to people. People decide what they want to believe and then
look for miracles to confirm them in their concern for feeling good at the
expense of truth-seeking.
Belief in miracles is based not on belief in the power of God but on belief in
the reliability of the men who say God did this and that. Miracles unavoidably
lead to idolatry. Man speaking God's message is not the same as God giving the
message for it puts all the stress on believing in the man.
Jesus told a distraught woman that he was reluctant to help her for it was not
right to take food from the table to throw it to dogs. That the Church even
tries to excuse this is terrible.
Jesus told the Jews that his exorcisms were real miracles for Satan will not
cast out Satan. That is nonsense. Satan would care more about tempting people to
sin than about possessing people. Jesus even tried to intimidate the Jews into
agreeing with him by telling them that they would be committing an unforgiveable
sin if they think his exorcisms are not from the Holy Spirit.
Jesus said he would give the world no sign but that of Jonah which seems to be
referring to his bodily resurrection from the dead - the implication being that
it is the only miracle we really need to consider as evidence for the truth of
his claim to be the Son of God. It is agreed by all that mere apparitions of
Jesus would not be enough to establish the resurrection and so you need the body
to be miraculously missing from the tomb presumably because it has been raised
and glorified. But all we are told is that the tomb was found open and was
unattended when open. Nobody knows if the body went before the tomb was opened
or after. The gospels do not say. Did some nut come along and steal the body?
The risen Jesus also lied on the way to Emmaus that the scriptures predicted the
resurrection of the Messiah. There is no verse that clearly indicates a
resurrection from the dead for the Messiah.
The whole case for depending on Jesus and admiring him and converting to him
is based on unwarranted assumptions and lies. Don't be fooled. Don't
let the blind make you blind and lead you.