I pray you can find the happiness I have found – the answer is in the Bible… May God Bless you all.

Furthermore, I see Christianity as a grassroots movement where one man or woman effects another and together they effect their region. Christianity is never to be forced upon anyone because God wants respondents not puppets. It is time that ordinary Christians get off their lazy, idle butts and get about this Christian stuff as Jesus taught it. Structure has its role, the role to equip, but it is “power to the people”.

But the religion thing is too much. People who come back from the dead? Really? Are they zombies? because in my culture, haitian culture, we believe in zombies or “revenants” in French.
As far as Christianity is concerned, or at least the Christianity that Europe exported to the the rest of the world, this is a problem.
How do you explain the Crusades? How do you explain the Inquisition? How do you explain the extermination of the Native Americans? How do you explain the enslavement of the Africans?

All these happened in the name of Christianity, perpetrated by people who presented themselves as apostles, bringing salvation…no they brought radical, active and merciless extermination.

For centuries Europe has used Christianity to impose its will on the other parts of the world, under the pretext that ‘if you converted and gave up your life, your wife, your land, your children to the colonisators, you will have a better life in paradise”.

In the meantime, since you’re ‘guaranteed a great life after you’re dead culturally, emotionally, and physically, ‘ it is easy to let the colonisator rule your life.

What Mr Rutz is doing is blatant advertising for a cause he believes in (and I respect his position). But I have some questions. If Christianity is so active and powerful, why segregation had plagued this country for centuries? Is it ok to have an American president having promiscuous sex with women in the White House? What is Christianity’s take on that?

In my country, Haiti, Christinaty is a main cause of social division. And sometimes I fancy that many new protestant churches are encouraged for the sole purpose of keeping the population divided. If I believe you’re impure, infidel, I won’t have much respect for your point of views because I think you’re inferior. This is my little conspiration theory.

From my experience and my own observations, if anything Christianity divides. It creates a bunch of people who know the Bible by heart, yet fail to apply the Bible’s laws to their very everyday life. It creates a bunch of hypocrites.

I am technically Christian because I believe in the words of Jesus, I believe in his philosophy…and last time I checked his philosophy was about serving other people, not getting money out of them.

Let’s not mix business with religion. It’s a very explosive and dangerous mix. I respect everyone’s religion, but I believe that NO RELIGION has the TRUTH.

Catholic missionaries were pretty much ignorant of native religions, so they wouldn’t realize that the reason the natives were so excited to celebrate the birthday of St. Boris was that Boris was born on the same day as Quetzalcoatl, or whatever.

So the saints are pretty much the old gods, with new names.

One of the most comprehensive overviews of Aztec religion was written specifically to help missionaries stamp out the last vestiges of it.

Anyway, one problem with Mr. Rutz’s theories is that the roots of modern illiteracy in Guatemala can be traced directly to, that’s right, Christian missionaries. The mayans at the time of the conquest already had their own written language, and apparently a high literacy rate at least among nobles, and The Spaniards proceeded to quit efficiently wipe out all knowledge of it.

Not to mention that, while efforts were made by Spanish authorities to treat the indians fairly, America was so far from Spain that the Spanish government could be pretty well ignored, and the result was that a bunch of Spanish jerks basically made slaves of the entire population.

Before Christianity, meanwhile, central america was home to some of the most technologicacally advanced, intellectually well developed, and most prosperous civilisations in America. In fact, most problems in central america can be traced back to the Christian conquest of the area.

This Rutz guy should pick up a history book.

Only the parts where people vote for Labour. How else to explain socialism?

First, let me wave my tiny set

and figured that was all I needed to know about this guy.

Tiny set.

He should google for Gog and Magog, which definitely aren’t of Christian origin.

Oddly enough, that also sounds like Gavin…

I wonder if this is all some kind of performance art piece. Like Jesus’s General on a much larger scale without ever dropping character.

And the reality grade? Hell, that liberalism just makes your hair smell like an ashtray and get all fat like Michael Moore.

I’m too lazy to look anything up right now, but I’m pretty sure turing local gods into saints had been done before, at least in Britan. Is Rutz going to claim that England is demon-plagued?

Of course, the only way to learn about this new hippie Jesus chruch is by buying Jim’s book, so that let’s you know how serious he is…