Introduction:
The Ten Commandments are superstitious bullshit that don't apply to modern life whatsoever*. What about Christ? Christ was perhaps one of the best moral teachers (with the exception of Aristotle, the Buddha and Confucius - who greatly surpass him in wisdom and insight). He said - in his Sermon on the Mount - that the meek will inherit the Earth. He also said that Christians shoudn't go to church to pray.
Popes, The Immaculate Conception and the idea of Original Sin all came along long after Christ died - around and after the time of Saint Paul (who was, in effect, the first pope) - and go against his ideas. After all, if one can choose not to be virtuous but still be saved from the torments of hell then where and how does virtue come into it? It seems the idea of repentance is somewhat of a get-out clause. What it really means, of course, is Catholics can commit great evils and be forgiven. I wonder what Christ would have to say about that...?
A few thoughts:
If all sins are equal (this is the kind of shit Christians believe), and God forgives all, then why the fuck be Christian? Why not rape, pillage, curse, defile, steal, cheat, covet (as if that's a fucking sin) and murder? (Oh, wait - Christians do that all the time!) And, whilst we're on the subject, don't forget all those other sins like homosexuality and sodomy and what not. Gay men are fucked! (Excuse the pun.) But lesbians are okay in God's book; God probably does like titties after all. (Oh, come on! He's only fuckin' human! Give the guy a fuckin' break!) Why not go against that Christ fellow whom you're all so mad about and just be fuckin' jerks your whole lives, huh?
Oh, hang on, those are very un-Christian things, right! If all one has to do to be forgiven is 'welcome' Jesus into one's heart, then why not sin all one's life and say 'Oh, sorry, my precious Lord, for turning out to be yet another of your fucked-up creations' just before death? (In circumstances where death is known to be imminent, of course - it wouldn't help if you were to die via being crushed by a ten-tonne piece of whale shit falling randomly from the sky.)
It wouldn't make a difference - if you apply logic to these fucked-up beliefs - if you sin your whole life or never sin once (because everyone, according to Catholic metaphysics and God, gets to be pardoned if they ask for forgiveness). Why even live a good life? I think that - in order that all these poor Christian folks can be saved - God needs to send plenty more Jesuses. Oh, hang on: there is no God. There are no gods or godesses or deities or divine, immortal god progeny - prophets to you and me; not one. There never was a monotheistic god, there never were polytheistic gods, and there never will be; not one. Never.
Good night!
*The only decent commandments are 'Thou shalt not kill' (although some fundamentalist Christians seem to have no problem with killing certain peoples and bombing their countries) and 'Thou shalt not steal'. The Commandments say nothing of rape, incest, torture, war, repression, slavery or prostitution - in fact it's widely known that bronze-age peoples (Christians and Jews) readily kept slaves and often sold female slaves on to other men for sexual use. A final, 11th commandment should go something along the lines of: 'Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself'.
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