Why are Christians Evil?
Now before some Christians get triggered here with this provoking title, I want to make a disclaimer:
I AM NOT GENERALIZING ALL CHRISTIANS, IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON THEN THIS ARTICLE DOESN'T APPLY TO YOU, AND I AM SURE THERE ARE MANY GOOD CHRISTIANS OUT THERE, SO THIS IS NOT A GENERALIZATION
Okay so this is not a generalization on all Christians, but I have observed a pattern that simply just can't be ignored. I grew up in a semi-religious environment and came across many Christians over my lifetime. And I have observed this pattern stunningly on over 6 people at least from what I can remember, different age groups, different gender, different nationalities and cultures and different professions, however 1 thing was common in all of them, they were all Bible believing Christians.
So even though I am not generalizing here, this is just a way too screaming pattern that can't be ignored, so let's see if there is a connection.
Perhaps I was just unlucky and I found myself surrounded by assholes, regardless of their religion, but I don't think it's totally accurate to dismiss this as well.
Horrible Christian Personalities
This is a very irritating phenomena. I have never seen a Christian apologize and they have always done something bad. I have experienced multiple cases where people did bad things to me or I saw people do bad thing to eachother. I never heard or saw them apologize. Almost never.
I am not a religious person per se, I do have my philosophical views on nature and reality, but I do have the integrity and moral qualities that when I think I did something wrong I do apologize. I have no narcissistic tendencies to, perhaps only a little which goes with the business, but I can apologize if it is the case.
Now I know multiple cases where I have experienced Christians doing bad or rude or outright horrible things, and they never apologized.
1)
At my wife's sister's kid's baptism ceremony (they are Catholics) there was a couple (also Catholics) who made a mess there, since they had a feud with my wife's sister (something about that she may have said something bad about their kid, which was a totally false allegation made up by another scumbag, and unrelated incident) and made a scene there, broke some plates and left. Of course later it was discovered that my wife's sister was not guilty of anything and never said those things. They never apologized, and they never paid for the damages. I guess Jesus just forgives it.
2)
There was a kid in the neighborhood (30 years ago) who stole my soccer ball twice. He was raised in a proud Evangelical family. My father went over once to talk about this issue but their parents denied the allegations. I guess Jesus forgives theft too.
3)
There was a scumbag at my real estate job, who was just a total dictionary definition of a scumbag. He wore "I ♥ Jesus" bracelets like some freak. I mean imagine a 40 year old guy wearing a bracelet like that like if it were like a 14 year old girl wearing a bracelet about their favorite boy band. Needless to say, he was a total scumbag. I mean he would literally start eating from your food in the cafee, he was an overweight dude. He would always ask you for a quick loan, he would borrow 100-200 EUR from people and of course never pay it back, and deny the allegations whenever he was confronted. I was just waiting for him to get fired since a lot of people hated him, but the boss saw some talent in him (probably a typical stereotype for an estate guy) that was worth more to him than the satisfaction of my colleagues. He went regularly to church every Sunday, here is your rolemodel Christian.
4)
The teacher that beat me (physical violence against a ~10 year old kid) had a cross necklace in her neck (not sure if she was practicing, although it's common in Christian circles to spank or beat kids). I guess Jesus forgives that.
5)
The previous boyfriend of my wife was a Christian, who got nice sexy cross tatoo on his back together with some Bible verses tatooed on his ribs. No he wasn't a gangster, he was actually just a hippy Christian. He beat my wife once, not that badly, it was 2 slaps according to her, but I think she was downplaying it, so I went over to him (by then we were together, but this fucker was constantly phoning him [interestingly this was the only guy that actually did apologize, not that it counts]) and almost a fight broke out between us but the fucker lived with his sister who was at home, so that saved his pretty face from my fist. We never heard from him again, thankfully, however when she left him and moved out from their apartment (they were living in 3 there) some of her clothes remained there together with some of her stuff. We were expecting to get them mailed to us, but they never came. She tried phoning the guy's sister who was accidentally my wife's best friend until then, and she received a very harsh yelling from the women. My wife had her biggest disappointment, not just she lost her boyfriend but also her best friend, by then we were together, we got together about 2 weeks after the violent incident and before this fiasco. Of course we could have gone the legal way to recover the possessions but my wife said that forget it, what stays there stays there, and that is how she ended this chapter of her life and fell in love with me. I can't say I am too disappointed, I got the women that I love in the end, but I also can't forgive this fucker what he did. My wife told me that she met his parents and they were religious, raising this boyfriend in a religious household as well. What a coincidence, I guess Jesus forgives his aggression and theft as well.
6)
My brother's first girlfriend promised her virginity to him. Of course I don't want to enter into women's issues here and I don't want to blame it on my brother or his naivity or whatever. My bro is a fine guy, but he was very naive with women, let's face it. So this girl, a Christian, who according to Christian ethics, abstain themselves from sex until marriage. My brother was a little bit religious, but not that much, however he believed her and he was very much in love with her, simply he was just charmed by this girl. After being with the girl about 1 year, still not getting any pussy of course, but they dated a lot, went to movies, parties, she even invited him to his house, but not for sex, nope, to bake cookies together. Oh my God it's totally ridiculous, but it is really this unfortunate, and couldn't believe him and he'd probably kill me if he'd know that I revealed it here, but oh well. It turns out the girl was actually having sex with other guys in that 1 year while they were together, her best friend blew the whistle on her because she couldn't take it anymore to see my poor brother being used that much, and not that she wasn't a virgin, but she actually had sex with at least 15 guys by that time. Now this is just horrible, but it's true. So he wasn't getting any pussy, but others did. Now how the fuck could have this happened? Was my brother blind, had he not seen any red flags? I guess the first red flag was that she ignored him in school, they were colleagues in the class next door, but she was constantly flirting with other guys. Now I did went to the same school, but I was younger so we weren't in the same session, otherwise I would have slapped my bro in the face for not seeing the obvious crap that she put out. I guess my bro was more of the shy type, whereas I had more "girl" experience by then to put it in the term. But just for not seeing those red flags, I really felt sorry for him, this experience totally changed him, he was betrayed to such a deep level that he has became stoic since then. I guess this helped his financial career, but still it's such a deep shame. So what the hell happened exactly to "abstenance till marriage" and I don't know if her parents knew? Who cares basically, this is one of the scummiest behavior that I saw in a woman in my entire life. If she doesn't want to be with my brother, just say it upfront and leave him, but to betray and use him to this degree is very shameful for a woman. It's disgusting. No apology of course, they never spoke after.
So there you have it, 6 different instances of absolutely scummy and despicable behavior, both women and men, all age groups (I also know about old religious people who were scummy), different religious branches, and different professions. All sharing the same scummy behavior.
That is just what I can remember right now, but I am sure if I think harder I will remember other instances as well.
I thought Christianity promotes virtue, honesty, kindness, love, and self-instrospection, generosity, but I mostly saw the opposite characteristics from the people I came across.
- The guys at the ceremony and the kid who stole my soccer ball including their parents were greedy, not to mention my scummy colleague who was literally a petty thief
- The ex boyfriend was a filthy scumbag, an aggressive alcoholic scum who probably went every Sunday to church to ask for forgiveness, yet he still didn’t changed his behavior
- The violent school teacher had no kindness in her and she was very despicable in general
- And the ex girlfriend, she just became the new definition to the word “scum”, absolutely despicable behavior, total betrayal of trust and using and humiliating a person to the maximum, truly psychopathic behavior
So forgive me if I am rude but how exactly is this kindness and generosity manifested, when I have never experienced anything of the sorts from any Christian person I came across.
And I really don’t want this article to sound like a Christian-bashing one, but really it looks to me like religion is only a pretense, and the fact that Christianity has really devolved into megachurches that have no substance, and people who literally ignore every commandment from the 10 Commandments, including just absolutely selfish and despicable behavior, posing themselves as Christians.
In fact, they can just sin every time they can get, and then ask for forgiveness from Jesus every Sunday, but of course never apologize to the actual victim, much less to try to make up for the wrongdoing.
It’s a really big scam if you think about it, they are now saying that you can enter into Heaven just by asking for forgiveness. So what would stop scumbags like mentioned above to just continue their scummy behavior, never repent, and just ask for forgiveness every now and then to wipe the slate clean.
It’s ironic, but this is exactly what I am observing. It’s almost like to the level of the Catholics selling Indulgence for Money in the past. Don’t worry you can sin all you want, can be the biggest scumbag of the Earth, just make sure you donate to the Church and then you will guaranteed get into Heaven. Yes it’s a massive corruption.
I think good Christians have to step up and get rid of this corruption in their religion.
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I agree Christianity causes or exacerbates many of the problems in our society, however you're engaging in huge confirmation bias here:
Six people were complete scumbags while 80-90% of the people in your region identify as Christian. That means if anyone was ever kind or generous to you there's at least an 80% chance it was a Christian being kind. You're just noting the bad ones.
That's the thing with Christianity, the Ten Commandments no longer apply. All that forgiveness through Jesus stuff isn't because of the religion, it is the religion. Why do you think mobsters are always so deeply religious?
The thought that just occurred to me is that Christianity doesn't cause evil behavior, but it does give people a way to clear their conscience for evil behavior. (Although I think in some ways it does also cause evil behavior, but that's mostly around their abhorrent message on sexuality.)
EDIT: Forgot to mention... really the worst part with organized religion as a whole is that it gives a degree of control over a populace. Pastors/Priests can motivate their congregation to harm others, cause wars, elect evil leaders, etc. When belief overcomes reason you get shit like the Evangelicals in the US trying to legislate away homosexuality. (Pence is very popular among that crowd, and he wants to send gay people to electroshock therapy!)
No the sample is just too wide for it to be a coincidence. There is certainly something bad to religion that causes people to behave this way, while I have not observed the same behavior with other groups.
I live in a pretty secular town, so the number of Christians here is not even that high, if anything I am inflating the proportionality here.
But it is exactly that, the fact that the general population behaves relatively normally, while the religious group which is like 30-40% does not. That is a pattern that shouldn't be ignored.
Exactly, for once I agree with you here.
Every single mobster that I have read about in the newspapers or in TV had been deeply religious. Now is that a coincidence too? Or they have a deep cognitive bias and are struggling to justify their immoral behavior through religion.
I think most people live in a satanic mindset, so called Christians included. Not the kid with black clothes and a pentagram necklace.
The average person with the mindset of self preservation and self interest being the highest value in ones own life.
Most so called christians have no idea what Jesus taught, did, or spoke of. Therefore are christians in name only.
No you are jumping to bad conclusions here. Self preservation is the ultimate biological role for a creature, but in a free world, reputation does shine light to the immoral behavior.
There are a few rules that people have automatically adopted, and just because people are struggling and especially if they are not, those that break them, should have their reputation tarnished immediately.
We must forgive each other, even when someone is doing evilish things and it's hard to call people evilish. We must try to help each other to get better and not blame to the fault we make in this evlish world.
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Well I am not sure what makes people a christian. I was raised in a semi-christian environment, but I was never really religious like my grandparents and my father to some degree.
So either way I am not a believer. Although I am not atheist either, I took a philosophical approach to metaphysics.
Intelligent indeed, to be honest Christ in faith some say is the seed or seed of crystallization ...see Greek Kryst.....and ian bing ion ..aeon....or uni or one.....a individual unit.......words are indeed tricky...but you my friend are wise and have a intelligent viewpoint from the plateau you inherit.
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A sad reality, many people do that maybe for the reason you tell (more often than not they just don't care). But there is a verse in the Bible that describe to those "people" how not to act "Don't be like the hypocrite".
Sorry to heard all that and thanks for not generalize, I supose that people don't really pay attention to the lesson and only in the simbols. Good post.
Well yes but how to do expose the immorality if they think they are doing everything just fine and the criticism often doesn't seem to get through to people?
Well, this is one of those things that comes with being "holier than thou".
So, you go to church, do you penance, and you get pumped with the message that you are better than those heathens out there that aren't praying enough.
Then there is the "proper" way to live your life. And, if you are living proper, doing the proper things, then everything you do is proper. So, there is no need to apologize, because, you did the right thing.
This all adds up, and make many christians not at all christ like.
Plus, they don't read or know their own bible.
Yes that is a huge fallacy. If one priest declares himself holy and the authority that speaks with the divine, then that assumes that everything he does is holy. Yet we can obviously see how corrupt and immoral they can be.
Thus authority, once again fails. It doesnt matter if its religious or political.
All these people with their bibles and crosses who behave this way will be punished. They are just pretenders, thinking that they will be saved. Yes Jesus forgives, he also asks you to repent your sins.
God loves the sinner, he hates the sin. People who claim to be religious and wear items to demonstrate their faith usually are the most sinful people, I have noticed it too.
Even in the bible it says not to make an artifacts or symbols of God or the heavens. Yet here these people do it! Hypocrites!