Fuck Christianity

We live in a hyper-focus on honoring the sanctity of difference. We put it on a pedestal. We especially don’t want to offend anyone of any minority group, any specific religious belief, any gender, any political affiliation, and sexual preference. We have laws about speaking out against any of these. It is so ubiquitous, Lady Gaga can say on prime time television, “I swear to Lucifer!” and no one blinks. That’s progress, in our society. We have come from a time when, if you were not Christian and white, you were “other”. Now, if we do not have one member of each group on a panel discussion, the panel is not diverse enough. We fucking love the “other”.

We have come far from the days of persecuting those of other faiths. So far, in fact, that I grew up knowing, being reminded at every turn, that Christianity was, in fact, a sin. Christianity had ruined the world, along with white people. White Christians, without doubt, were the worst people that existed. 

I grew up knowing that paganism and witchcraft and my Norwegian and Native American spiritual histories were much more important and sacred than anything otherwise white people could offer me, especially not Christianity.

I knew this because Sabrina was one of the most popular shows, after Buffy. I knew this because Practical Magic was filmed near my tiny hometown. I knew this because Hot Topic sold Satanic relics and goths were awesome rebels. I knew this because Nirvana sang it. I knew this because, in reality, every piece of pop culture I was exposed to carried this same programming.

Christianity is the evil that we shall not embrace because of all the harm it has done over thousands of years….

Yes, we have this drilled into our very souls. You didn’t? Well then you lived in an entirely different cultural milieu than I have over the past 38 years and that’s something special. Good work.

Most people I’ve ever known can relate to what I’m describing. They can remember the absolute deluge of not only paganist and other religious material outside of Christianity, but also the obsession with atheism. Star Trek and the endless onslaught of materialist focal-matter in Science-related programming was without end, celebrated in all corners of the social world.

You could pick literally any religious or spiritual tract in the world and it would be honored and celebrated, but not a single person could choose Christianity or the Bible, not if they wanted to be treated like an equal, a thoughtful person, an explorer of spirit, or anything else positive and accepted. 

I was a Buddhist and people loved it. I was a Taoist and they cheered. I was a Shaman and they adored me. I dabbled in Islam and I was so advanced and ecclectic. I was a Christian and I was an idiot who didn’t understand history.

If I propose that Christianity is targeted for attack in our modern culture, not only do most people respond emotionally and negatively, they instantly treat me like I’m retarded. They assume that I must not have gotten the cultural programming message described above. They cannot imagine that I both received the message and took it in unreservedly for most of my life. They cannot see that I finally saw that it was literally the only path of spirituality that had ever been barred to me, by my culture and society, nearly unanimously.

And they are blind to the fact that they prove my point in so vitriolically attacking the mere idea that perhaps Chrsitianity is on the chopping block alone, in modern times.

I can show them the increasing hatred for anyone saying any sort of greeting that involves Christ or Christianity, but they won’t care. That is not what they want to see. I can say all kinds of other greetings from around the globe. I say, “A’ho” and they nod happily. I say, “Namaste” and they glow. I say, “God bless you” or “Merry Christmas” and they scream, “Keep your religious fundamentalism off of me!”

This is my experience in life.

I could show them how, if you merely draw a quick sketch of Muhammed, you may be killed. I could show them how, if you make a tv show about Jesus as a transgendered gay human, you are given awards and celebrated. They still will not care, because they were programmed to attack and that’s all they are capable of doing.

I have never found a religion yet that did not oppress others in many ways. I have not found one yet in which there have not been grave abuses of systemic power. I have not found one in which kids have not been raped or nuns sexually abused. I have not found one that has not had atrocities committed in its name.

But I have only found one in which the attack on the religion itself is not only tolerated, but celebrated. The only one in which you can proffer an experience of its suppression and people will not listen, will blindly attack with emotion and without thought, and will assume all kinds of things about you, including that you simply must not understand history.

I get it. You have a religion or not, I do or do not, and it doesn’t actually matter who has adopted which one. I don’t actually give a fuck which ones you like or don’t like. 

I just find it fascinating that we are at this point in history where there is only one religion whose denigration is celebrated.

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