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Why Christianity Is So Important
Posted by farid (Guest) - Tuesday, October 7 2003, 19:03:17 (EDT)
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The Christian position is untenable...and when I say "Christian" I mean those who say they're of the Christian religion but insist they are Assyrian too. Not that it wouldn't be possible to be of any religion and be Assyrian...just that they make such a joyous fuss out of having dumped that silly religion of the Assyrians for an off-shoot of one from the Jews and then condemn anyone else who did the same ting but DIDN'T adopt Christianity in its place.

In any case..being of the Cristian faith is "so important" to them because it's all they have. Imagine if you denounced your parents or children for the sake of something...a religion or even a chair...naturally enough that chair, or religion would HAVE to become even more important than your parents and children ever were...if they ever were...because how else could you live with yourself? It's one thing to throw them over for "God and a seat at his side for eternity"...that might be forgiveable and understandable...but to do it for nothing...or for a trifle? That's too damn uncomfortable to bear.

No Christian I've ever had three words conversation with can explain to me what was so all fired important they had to dump Ashur...I mean look where we got under his guidance and look what Jesus did to us. At that time, Judaism and Christianity were as "silly" as anything else around and there were far more noble aspects to a belief in Ashur than the church will ever care to admit.

Religion being life itself back then...not something you grumblingly did once a week, if then... meant that to turn your back on your religion was to turn away from your roots...your entire belief-system, not just about gods and heavens and hells and where you go and if you go and why your're here...but it defined family obligations, daily rituals, friendships and marriage ties, science and politics and warfare...everything we think of as "life" was all bound up in religion...something we've turned into a casual thing you do when you feel like it, or at Easter. So to give it up...to dump your ancestral gods and pick up those of the Jews...was far more mind and soul-shattering than these Christians want to admit. To listen to them you'd think it had been a mistake, or really had been of no significance WHAT gods the Assyrians believed in..in fact that they'd been believing the WRONG god all along...so, were they blessed with a blessed civilization or was the whole thing a kind of a "curse"...after all, didn't the Jewish forbears of the Christian religion believe god loved them most when he "tested" them most...and by that standard the glories and achievements of the Assyrian Heritage and way of life must have been one.........big.......CURSE...that was only lifted when they fell on their knees before Yahwe and started believing that being kicked from pillar to post and having not a pot to piss in were marks of "divine favor"...and the dummies still believe it.

For these Christians to now go on and on about their Assyriansm...when there isn't a single thing they do that's Assyrian...like they would even KNOW...is absurd. That's why you won't find a sane or rational one among the many who make this claim. Christianity is important to Christians of the MidEast becuse it sets them apart from the hated Muslims...makes them different and to their way of thinking "better". Trouble is when they come to Disneyland West where everyone is Christian and far richer and more successful at it...they're nobodies all over again...stuck in store-front churches among people who secretly believe Christ was born in Boston anyway and who look down at their peculiar ways that seem almost pagan if not somehow neo-Muslim and "exotic".

So now what do they do...these Christians, to avoid being swallowed up in an ocean of Christians of every size shape and hue? They start ranting about being the "dear"...the "only"...the "faithful" children, grandchildren, cousins, nephews and nieces of Sargon the Gret and Ashurbanipal and Tiglath-Pilessar...people whose gods they scorned and dropped ages ago...wo would no more recognize them or WANT them than I do.

They are charlatans mixed in generously with scoundrels and opportunists of the first piss water...and that's all.



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