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Easter sing-a-long

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, April 6 2015, 14:40:15 (UTC)
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...flipping the tv dial Easter Sunday I ran across a series of religiously based shows...on FOX, on CNN and on some local channels here in Mexico. CNN tried to be the more serious...at one point a speaker said something like "yes, but why is it that this message has lasted over 2000 years?"....the implication being that it's SUCH a great message it just wouldn't die.....bull.

It always struck me as odd that the Church would claim that way back when there were no reporters, no news shows, no foreign correspondents, no TV, they would claim that people "came to Christ willingly and happily and eagerly". We have no way of knowing that, plus which the Church has every reason to make such claims and ignore the real way people "accepted Christ"....by force.

When historical accounts began to be written and disseminated we find only great resistance to Christian missionaries....we know exactly how the Aztecs and all the people of South America "came to Christ"....they were murdered into the religion and their helpless orphans raised by their parents' murderers...same with every Black Christian whose ancestors we know for a fact were whipped and chained and raped "into Christ"....the same with native Americans in the north...

And, in those countries where a Christian army didn't provide the murder, Christianity never took root...like China and Japan and Korea...Christians were tolerated and they were allowed to rescue orphans and raise them, Christian of course....same with India...but, the numbers of Christians in those countries today is small and can be put down to inter-marriage among the faithful.

It defies logic and all we know about how people cling to the faith of their ancestors to believe that people threw off hundreds of years of religious faith and customs, tossed aside the religions into which they and their children were born and raised and buried, simply at the sound of the name of Jesus.

There are always malcontents who fall easy prey to new religions, but an entire people? No. Not of their own free will.

Finally, Christianity survived because of the Roman Empire, not because of Jesus...."conversions" occurred in the wake of Roman armies....and certainly the numbers of competing Christians put to death as heretics shows there was very little peace where this religion was concerned.

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