Christianity
Attacks on Christianity are frequent, regular. This is not surprising. But what is surprising (at least to me) is how often these attacks contradict one another. I give here a few examples. These attacks occur on such a frequent basis that I have not felt compelled to cite authors.
Objection A. Christianity fills people with morbid fears. This prevents people from seeking joy and liberty in nature.
Objection -A. Christianity comforts people with a fictitious providence. This lulls people into a false security despite the sobering realities of nature. Thus adult Christians live in a grownup nursery, which does not allow them to wise-up.
Objection B. Nature is beautiful and interesting. It is enough. We should live free lives, enjoying and inquiring into nature. We should not let a make-believe tyranny usurp our joyful freedom.
Objection -B. Pious fools believe in freedom/freewill. Their religion blinds them to the fact that one cannot be free in nature.
Objection C. Christianity is meek, timid, monkish. The Christian view of fighting (turn the other cheek) is ridiculous, impractical.
Objection -C. Christianity is the mother of all wars. It is the single greatest source of oppression and aggression. Christianity has filled the world with bigotry. Christianity has soaked the world in blood.
Objection D. Christianity is only one of many religions. If we collect together the good parts from these various fairy tales, we find what is important: a universal ethical code. But this ethical code is available to the naturalist. A person only need belong to the universal "church of ethics." The superstition is unnecessary. We only need highlight what is universal in morality; the things that make a good life from age to age.
Objection -D. The judgment of the rationalist and naturalist is not clouded by religion. They can see with clarity that the morality of one age is inferior to the morality of another. Attitudes on things like slavery have changed for the better (in some places). There is no universal morality. What was (considered) right in one age is now (considered) wrong in this age.
Objection E. Christians do not live by the scriptures; they take liberties interpreting them.
Objection -E. Christians interpret scripture too literally.
I will not give more examples, though there are plenty. This sort of double-charging is all over in the secular world. You know, Christianity is the light of the elect, but has left many other good people to die in darkness. But then science is the light of those who "get it," while the rest live and die in darkness. That sort of thing.
So Christianity must be a strange thing indeed to encompass so many contradictory vices!
''But we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles'' -1 Corinthians 1:23
Thank you for sharing your insight sir! I'm following you and waiting for more of your work!
"If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated. My reason for doing this would be, that if Christ is in any one of the churches of the world today, He must still be hated as He was when He was on earth in the flesh. If you would find Christ today, then find the Church that does not get along with the world. Look for the Church that is hated by the world as Christ was hated by the world. Look for the Church that is accused of being behind the times, as our Lord was accused of being ignorant and never having learned. Look for the Church which men sneer at as socially inferior, as they sneered at Our Lord because He came from Nazareth. Look for the Church which is accused of having a devil, as Our Lord was accused of being possessed by Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils. Look for the Church which, in seasons of bigotry, men say must be destroyed in the name of God as men crucified Christ and thought they had done a service to God. Look for the Church which the world rejects because it claims it is infallible, as Pilate rejected Christ because He called Himself the Truth. Look for the Church which is rejected by the world as Our Lord was rejected by men. Look for the Church which amid the confusions of conflicting opinions, its members love as they love Christ, and respect its Voice as the very voice of its Founder, and the suspicion will grow, that if the Church is unpopular with the spirit of the world, then it is unworldly, and if it is unworldly it is other worldly. since it is other-worldly, it is infinitely loved and infinitely hated as was Christ Himself. But only that which is Divine can be infinitely hated and infinitely loved. Therefore the Church is Divine."
-- Fulton Sheen