Posts Tagged “humanism”

You always hear and see Christians exclaim how much more fortunate they are that they belong in the only religion that can grant them true happiness after death. Some go even further and decide that people who do not believe in christianity are missing out and it is their duty to save them before it is too late. Mix that with the threat of eternal damnation on the other side and you’ve got an powerful chain of fear to bind people when brainwashing them from a young age.

But I digress, this is not the point of the article I am attempting to write currently. Rather, I would prefer to focus on the first part of the previous sentence, that is, how Christians are virtuous only because they want to get into Heaven and what effect it has on all of us. (more…)