Thursday, September 11, 2008

Introduction

So. You're a Christian.

No, you're an atheist.

No, wait, you're a pseudo-intellectual self-proclaimed agnostic who actually isn't exactly sure what that means, or what religion means, or why it's here, or why the mainstream seems to hate it, and why mainstream religion seems to hate being hated.


Here's a handy translation manual:
The basic truth of it is, Christians are not the most popular people in the world. It's mostly because of all the people who call themselves Christians while they curse, drink, or lie one day and be holier-than-thou the next. Because these are the "Christians" who want attention, these are the ones who are seen by the public eye, and so the public image of Christian is tarnished. All you need to do is pay a visit to nearly any video on YouTube or article on a news site, and eventually it will escalate into a religious argument. Somehow, someway, the laughing baby will become a furious debate on why God can't exist, or why the Bible says this or that.

It's because of the religious wars, bloody historical accounts of killing in the name of a peaceful God. For non-Christians, it's the intrinsic unbelievability of an omniscient deity, the shamefulness of lowering ourselves to worship something else (and yet, we always worship something, whether it's a god, power, or money). So both sides, Christian and non-, turn to degrading the other for its beliefs. Because both sides have a dogmatic frenzy, desperate to disprove the other. So many conflicting ideologies don't help to lessen the confusion, and when we're confused, we want to eliminate the confusion as fast as possible--usually by attacking it.

And yet most of us never think of bridging the gap.

Science can work with religion--it does, except for, of course, evolutionary ideas and the origin of the universe (but no one agrees on that. After all, no one was there to see it--except for one Guy who wrote a Book about it, but that's not politically accepted).

This site is here to try to help bridge the chasm between atheism and religion--specifically Christianity. It's a very small and naive attempt, probably, but at least it's an attempt. There's too much hate going around right now.

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