What exactly is orthodox Christianity

Faith is believing something that you know isn’t true. –Mark Twain

What exactly is orthodox Christianity, in simple words?

It is a religion that requires you to believe that a person named Jesus, who was his own father, died for your sins; sins which you acquired because a wicked serpent convinced your ancestors to steal a magical fruit from a magical tree. To gain salvation, you must tell Jesus telepathically that since he loves you, you love him back, and that you will no longer sin. Then, accept that he died for your sins. After that, you must overdress every Sunday morning and spend the whole day apologizing for being born as a human. Else, you’ll burn in hell for eternity.

Yeah, I know the above description wouldn’t make any sense to a human being who has a sense of logic. Sadly, there is nothing in orthodox Christianity that can be explained logically. And when I say “nothing”, I mean- NOTHING. Because “logic” is something orthodox Christians don’t have. Anyway, let us “try” to look at some things in Christianity from a logical point of view.

(Note that unlike my other articles, here I am using the word- Yahweh. I feel that a God, who demands the death of innocent creatures, who commands people to kill those who don’t worship him, approves rape and so on, doesn’t deserve the name.)

Number 1- Noah’s ark

According to the Bible, Noah was the only person who was good and righteous among the people of his time. So, Yahweh decided to kill all other people and protect only Noah. So, he decided to send a big flood that would drown the whole earth killing EVERYONE. Is it believable that all other people including their children were so evil that they all deserved death? I don’t think so. But, anyway, since the “holy” Bible says so, we will buy it just for now.

Now, a question comes here. If Yahweh was all powerful, why on earth didn’t he just send some wild animals like he did later in “Kings”? Why not just send a thunderstorm that would strike all other people except Noah? Why not just make them sick? If he is really “all powerful”, he could also kill them using heart attacks. So, why cause so much unnecessary commotion by creating a flood? It is also hard to understand why Yahweh decided to kill the innocent animals along with the supposed sinful humans.

Anyway, let’s leave those questions because we know they can’t be answered. So, Yahweh made Noah create a boat and take a pair of every animal and bird with him. Is that believable? Let’s see… Noah lived in Israel, and to get the polar bears, he had to travel all the way to the North Pole on foot. How much time would that take? More than one year. But, Genesis 7: 4 says that Yahweh gave him only seven days. So, how on earth did he bring the polar bears from the North Pole, penguins from the South Pole, and camels from the desert and so on in such a short time? Well, Yahweh does work in “mysterious” ways, so maybe he did some kind of miracle to teleport them, isn’t that right? Okay, then, we will buy this excuse too, for now.

So, the boat had to be large enough to carry all the millions of species of animals that this world has. So, how was it built in such a short time? It would also take Noah a lot of time to collect food for all the animals. Plus, where would he keep them? Logical or illogical, there is simply NO explanation for these questions. Plus, this incident took place thousands of years ago. So, from where on earth did Noah buy a refrigerating system to keep the polar bears and penguins alive?

So, it explains that this story is just another nonsense fairytale. A fairytale that even adults believe.

Number 2- Hell and heaven

A story also goes that the righteous will go to heaven while the sinners will go to hell. They say that Yahweh rules over the whole universe except hell. So, hell is the only place over which Yahweh does not rule. Because the devil rules over it.

Let us suppose that hell exists. So, suppose you lied, you cheated, you committed unlawful sexual acts, you committed murder and so on, and in the end, you had to go to hell. According to orthodox Christians, now you will be punished. By the devil, that is. Again, let’s not forget that you were a liar, a cheater, an adulterer and a murderer. In other words, you were evil. And so is the devil! So, why on earth would the devil punish you? Hell, you are one of his buddies!

If one uses plain old logic, this theory about heaven and hell doesn’t make any sense either.

Number 3- Laughable stories that make no sense

Some stories of the Bible are so horrible and disgusting that it can only leave the reader wondering what its purpose is. Let’s look at the story in Judges 19: 16- 29. A man and his concubine take shelter for the night in an old man’s place. That night, a group of wild men appear at the door and asks the old man for his guest because they wanted to rape him. Surprisingly, the old man values a stranger whom he just met more than his young virgin daughter. He offers his daughter instead. The wild men are still not satisfied, so the old man decides to send his guest’s concubine out. The wild men were given permission to do whatever they wanted with her. The men brutally rape her all night and at last, the poor woman dies on the doorstep of the house where her husband was staying. The Bible does not mention her husband crying or feeling any pity over her death. Instead he cuts her corpse into twelve pieces and sends them to different tribes of Israel.

Moral of this story? I would hope none.

Seriously, only those orthodox Christians can find logic and justice in such disgusting stories. It also leaves me wondering why Yahweh didn’t do anything to save the poor woman. Maybe it’s because he works in “mysterious” ways. So “mysterious” that he couldn’t come to save the poor woman.

Number 4- Numerous contradictions in the first chapters of Genesis

From a scientific point of view, everything in all the chapters of Genesis is plain garbage. But, even if they were taken to be true for now, we would still find contradictions.

Genesis 1: 4 describes Yahweh creating light. But he created the sun much later, in Genesis 1: 16. So, how can there be light without the Sun?

Genesis also describes Yahweh creating the plants before he created the Sun. So, how in the world can the plants survive, much less, grow without a sun?

The Bible is full of such nonsense and garbage that contradicts science. So many people were fooled by the Bible, and so many still are. Abraham Lincoln said- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

It’s so pathetic that orthodox Christians believe that human-sacrificing and animal-sacrificing primitives living around three thousand years ago knew more about biology and the universe than modern-day scientists.

Orthodox Christians have a tendency to dislike scientists because they showed the real truth to the world. But, still they use computers and other technologies to spread their madness and false propaganda, while forgetting that those very technologies they use were invented by the very scientists they hate.

I am also sure that it isn’t very hard to find an orthodox Christian today who will say that people who don’t believe in their religion should be stoned to death. All I can say is that this is a wrong attitude towards life and religion.

Blessed are the merciful.