Jesus vs. Religion
 

So I got shown this video in school today during form time and I found it really interesting (I'm not sure if there's been a thread on this or not already..so):



I pretty much agree with everything this guy is saying. He said nearly everything I thought about organised Christianity in 4 minutes.

Thoughts?

hes hot i wanna do him

How did I know you'd say that :laugh:

because i have good taste?

Yus.

Serious debates :nono:

i am being serious

This thread was such a fail omg I wish I never made it

I have no religious (or Jesus? :suspect:) beliefs, but that video is brilliant.

Its just another sad cult vid from america. "I love the bible" he says?

get bent you moron

Jesus did/said some pretty ****ty things, too, it's just that we don't get to hear thee stories.

Nice well thought out reply there

That is all that lame "rap" deserved and was on its intellectual level.

and i said that with a rising inflection on "level"...

It was anything but a cult vid, cult's are systematic and organisational which is what this guy was arguing against. I don't believe in Jesus but this was actually a decent video, and with a good message as well

Its a message of nonsense and wishful thinking that helps no one. Identifying problems is officially the easiest job there is.

Jesus was a jew who was religious and followed the bible (OT) to the letter. This guy seems to think her is the first person to realise that religion is just a bunch of blokes with rules trying to make themselves important.

Excuse me? It's a "cult video from america" because he says he loves the bible? I don't think it's me who's the moron here.

Maybe if you actually listened to the video you'd hear that it has some pretty interesting ideas and info. It helped me to see Christianity in a different light.

Not at all really. Most people probably wouldn't think of religion as the problem and Jesus as the answer and they probably wouldn't question it. He's just trying to make the problems that religion brings explicit and obvious to everyone in a clever way. I mean I never really separated the ideas of Jesus and the church before in the sense that he talks about, and from the looks of thought on nearly everyone else's faces yesterday, they hadn't seen things in the same manner either.

Christianity is a Jesus cult. it is based on lies and guilt.

Ok so if Christianity is the cult, then how is a video preaching against it a "cult video from America"?

If you have not separated jesus from church then I would suggest that you did not understand what christian religion actually was, just like the berk in the video.

church can be 2 Christians meeting in a wood, for example.

"The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a new religious movement or other group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre" - wiki

believing that a dead man came alive again would be my first call...

You're missing my point.

He said that he used to think religion was the way to Jesus and that he just went along with it but never truly believed. To use his analogy "it's like buying a lakers shirt and saying you play for them".

And I'd say it's pretty accurate to think that most Christians believe that the church is the way to god and that it isn't a personal thing but rather something that has to be ritualistic etc, and that they probably haven't considered that you can get to god and Jesus by yourself should you try.

He's trying to point that out, as am I. I'm fully aware that church can be anywhere, but I'm not talking about the building I'm talking about the organisation and ritualistic 'church' that Christians (like myself) are supposed to follow.

Christianity isn't a cult. It doesn't force members to remain in their church or brainwash them or anything like that. Don't be ridiculous.

Christianity brainwashes children before they can make informed decisions - witness SUnday school and the filthy catholic religion, witness jews mutilating boys. Its a cult and a big cult.

"And it'd say it's pretty accurate to thing that most Christians believe that the church is the way to god and that it isn't a personal thing but rather something that has to be ritualistic etc, and that they probably haven't considered that you can get to god and Jesus by yourself should you try"

Hebrews 10:25
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. (NIV)

the reason for church is the flippin bible itself. if that guy actually read his bible he would realise what a silly rant he has created

Is that the Jewish Christian sect or the Christian Jewish cult?

who cares. they are all liars and child mutilators

The Jews who you are calling christian probably do.

Completely agree with the video too. I hate religion and what it stands for.

Religion does not come into my daily life. So apathy for me

they all are the same thing. men wanting status through rules and coercion.

My thoughts are that he's spent too much time on the rhyme and not enough on the reason.

I havent watched the video but the only thing I will say is Jesus had some good teachings but I am not for organised religion, I consider myself more of a free thinker. Religion should be a personal thing good luck to you, always keep an open mind on everything.

TiBB tries to be Religious - Scott starts the discussion with a post like this. :love:

It always saddens me when people speak about my religion without knowing anything much about it. I have never, and would never, encourage anyone to take up my religion because everyone's belief is personal to them. Everyone with a brain can make an informed choice. Using blanket phrases to cover your own disbelief is a little insulting, but if it makes you feel better... enjoy.

How can a young person make an informed decision when his parents and other relations have drummed into him or her from day 1 that their religion is true and that they should believe in it without question?

The tradition of Jewish education goes back to biblical times. One of the basic duties of Jewish parents is to provide for the instruction of their children. The obligation to teach one's children is set forth in the first paragraph of the Shema Yisrael prayer: “Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and your gates.” (Deut 6:6-9).[wiki]

I am a little insulted that you think a trawl through Wikipedia allows you to question my faith or my grasp upon it.

You cannot cherry-pick bits and pieces from my faith and post them to strengthen your point when you have no grasp on the religion as a whole. Maybe if religious education was taught properly in schools, we would all be more understanding of each other's faiths and more respectful of other people's beliefs.

Most Jews I know - and that's quite a lot - have been brought up instructed in the religion but with free will to question and to choose. Not all of my family go to synagogue, some never go apart from weddings much like a large majority of people who would describe themselves as Christians. Many of us married outside the religion and our family is made up of more than one faith. Strangely to some perhaps, faith has never caused any kind of turmoil in our family. I do not question your disbelief in God, that is your belief and I have to assume it's something you've thought about. I am not asking you to be a Jew, I'm asking you to allow me to be one without ridicule.

What you mean is your a jew by tradition but not by religion.

Whatever it is its not religion. I am talking about the religion.

The religion that mutilates children, for example.

So now I'm not a proper Jew in your eyes, and you feel your Wiki-knowledge of my religion allows you to make that call? You feel I'm not a Jew because my thinking isn't 5,000 years out of date? I am a Jew by birth, and I choose to follow the religion. I choose to. I was allowed to decide for myself whether or not I follow the religion by parents who were forward thinking and believed the choice was mine to make with no pressure.

You regard male circumcision as mutilation, that's your opinion. I don't know any Jewish boys who feel they have been mutilated. If I ever do, I'll pass on your concerns. And if that's the crusade you're choosing, I'm kind of surprised you haven't found something else to shout about that's more worth the shouting.

"I don't know any Jewish boys who feel they have been mutilated."

perhaps that is because it was their own parents who made it happen


rather than look at wiki, an excellent source of information that is transparent and peer reviewed, unlike say the Talmud, maybe you can explain why it is deemed necessary to slice off a childs foreskin in the name of ... tradition?