mountain_tiger
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Link to original post: [drupal=2680]Small things about Christianity that bug me[/drupal]
For the most part, I'm fine with the religion. There are a couple of things about it that kinda annoy me though:
1) The fact that it restricts Sunday shopping. There's no good reason for this. If people don't want to open their shops on a Sunday due to being Christian or whatever, then that's fine. But being FORCED to have restricted shopping hours is unfair to people who don't believe in the Sabbath. Why shouldn't they be allowed to open on normal hours? The Bible even says that the Sabbath is optional in Mark 2:27. Thus, there's no good reasons to force restrictions on it; it should be left to the judgment of the people owning the business.
2) The fact that creationism is still taught in schools. No offense, but creationism has been proven to be BS. The world wasn't created in six days, there was no such people as Adam or Eve, and the world is billions of years old, NOT 7,000 years old. Many modern Christians accept that the story of Creationism is not literally true, but rather a metaphorical representation of how God created the earth. It astounds me how people can reject evolution, which there is a lot of evidence for, and accept creationism which there is NO evidence for. I've heard somewhere that only 40% of Americans beleive in evolution, though hopefully that's false.
3) Jehovah's witnesses. OK, so you believe in God, fair enough. But that does't mean you have the right to go door-to-door forcing your views on people. If someone went door-to-door trying to tell people that there was no God they'd probably be lynched.
4) When people use it as an excuse for homophobia, subjection of women, any form of discrimination really, or when used for selfish motives (and this one applies to religion as a whole).
Apart from those four things, I think that Christianity is a good thing (I'm an atheist myself, but if religion helps people to cope with difficult times or to behave morally that's fine by me), but unfortunately it seems to corrupt some people and causes a handful of others to stop themselves thinking logically. Most other Christians are fine by me.
For the most part, I'm fine with the religion. There are a couple of things about it that kinda annoy me though:
1) The fact that it restricts Sunday shopping. There's no good reason for this. If people don't want to open their shops on a Sunday due to being Christian or whatever, then that's fine. But being FORCED to have restricted shopping hours is unfair to people who don't believe in the Sabbath. Why shouldn't they be allowed to open on normal hours? The Bible even says that the Sabbath is optional in Mark 2:27. Thus, there's no good reasons to force restrictions on it; it should be left to the judgment of the people owning the business.
2) The fact that creationism is still taught in schools. No offense, but creationism has been proven to be BS. The world wasn't created in six days, there was no such people as Adam or Eve, and the world is billions of years old, NOT 7,000 years old. Many modern Christians accept that the story of Creationism is not literally true, but rather a metaphorical representation of how God created the earth. It astounds me how people can reject evolution, which there is a lot of evidence for, and accept creationism which there is NO evidence for. I've heard somewhere that only 40% of Americans beleive in evolution, though hopefully that's false.
3) Jehovah's witnesses. OK, so you believe in God, fair enough. But that does't mean you have the right to go door-to-door forcing your views on people. If someone went door-to-door trying to tell people that there was no God they'd probably be lynched.
4) When people use it as an excuse for homophobia, subjection of women, any form of discrimination really, or when used for selfish motives (and this one applies to religion as a whole).
Apart from those four things, I think that Christianity is a good thing (I'm an atheist myself, but if religion helps people to cope with difficult times or to behave morally that's fine by me), but unfortunately it seems to corrupt some people and causes a handful of others to stop themselves thinking logically. Most other Christians are fine by me.
