Because I now believe that Christ is savior I'm not exactly objective. But I will give an objective reason why I think Christianity is a far superior religion to others.
The way most religions spread is by giving you pain, then telling you to do something about it that propagates the religion.
Let's run through some examples:
Islam gives you psychological pain in the form of deep and abiding hate. It tells you there is something wrong with the world and it can only be solved with the spread of Islam. To spread Islam you have to conquer everyone or convert them.
Mormonism says that there is something wrong with the world, man is a sinner. In order to fix the world all must come to know Holy Father. You need to make covenants with God and you need to give 10% of your income and you need to do all these things which are high effort and create the psychological effect of the sunk cost fallacy.
Judaism says we have a history of being persecuted, woe is me, we must struggle for our survival in a world that is hostile.
Communism says the world is broken because it is unequal. To solve this you have to educate everyone about communism and wage a violent revolution.
Progressivism works basically the same way it says that there is something wrong with the world, bigotry, gender, white supremacy, patriarchy, and a few others. To fix the world we have to educate everyone about progressivism and spread the pain. It creates psychological derangement and then commands educating everyone in the derangement.
Feminism is a subset of progressivism and works the same way. The pain is men and the abolishing is getting rid of men.
You can tell that Nazism is a cousin of progressivism because it gives a person a terrible emotional agony and stress about the fate of the white race and then demands what? Bombings? Education of the masses? Seems a little incoherent. If you want to spread you should let go of the terrorism and salutes and learn how to talk to people in a calm and persuasive way without being off-putting. I'm not a Nazi but considering the fact that the world is filled with racial ideologies of pride I see the alt right as a necessary counterbalance, but I just think you would go much further if you took a more academic tone and literally tried to insert yourself into education. More Boris Johnson and less Adolf Hitler. Try to act like William F Buckley while making reasonable pro-caucasian claims.
I don't really think Hinduism works this way but it also doesn't appear to spread outside the Indian continent very well. Neither does Buddhism or Chinese traditional religions.
Now when it comes to Christianity there is definitely an element of "you're a sinner, you're bad, and you must earn your way into God's graces" but I think this is vastly toned down from what it used to be. I also think when you take the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox Church into account and consider the whole of Christianity across the world that kind of mission mentality is a Protestant and American phenomenon. Most Christians are not so wracked with guilt or driven to spread things around. The psychological pain + mission to spread the pain is toned down among Christians, and this is especially true among these new mega churches where the whole selling point is narcissism. Jesus cares about YOU.
Now I happen to believe this is true to a small extent, Jesus cares a little about everyone. I'm not so sure about developing a personal relationship with Christ. God may have better things to do. I tend to approach God in a more apologetic manner, my prayers tend to be things like "dear Lord please give me the things I need to be happy and a better person according to your judgment." I don't so much ask for things as for guidance towards the things God thinks are good for me. He knows everything and I'm sure he has better judgment than I do about what would improve my life or make me a better person. Just as a side note my posts before I reactivated in 2024 are from an atheistic perspective so if you think all Christians are cucks you have a whole archive to work with.
The point is the main selling point of Christianity today seems to be a bit of narcissism. This is paradoxically more healthy, or less unhealthy, then telling people they have to be psychologically deranged and in constant emotional agony and then giving them a mission to change the world, educate everyone, or kill everyone, or conquer everyone, or convert everyone or whatever. The vast bulk of religions and ideologies operate on this exact method of spreading themselves around and when I smell psychological pain + mission mentality I consider that a red flag. This could even be a legal criteria for excluding an ideology from education. The Anti-Puritin legal test: does it induce psychological pain? Does it seek to spread itself? Then it is a religion and violates the separation of church and state.
Christianity says, ‘you're a sinner, you're bad, and you must earn your way into God's graces". The NT explicitly states that you CANNOT earn your way into heaven.
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