I’ve been keeping up with ReligiousFreaks for awhile; it is a pretty interesting take on religion and its many strange facets. Another reader of the site from truthforfree.com had this to say on the site recently:
…The central focus of most Christians is “church world”. Virtually every activity they engage in is to feed that system of religion. Their efforts and finances are dumped into these massive money pit institutions. Somehow they get a sense of accomplishment, spiritual pride and think they are really earning points with God for participating. Rather than invest their time and finances in actual lives (which is the way of Christ Himself), their time and money goes to build bigger buildings and maintain them (such as paying to air condition a sanctuary that sits empty most of the week). Money goes to pay salaries of ministers they see as priests (whether they’re Catholic or not - most Christians expect a man to mediate their relationship with God and tell them what to do), but Jesus’ way is to come to God directly through Him (that’s why He died on the cross) and Jesus taught that it was inconsistent for a man to serve for money and ministry. In other words, the idea to salary preachers is a human invention that goes against the lifestyle that Jesus taught and demonstrated. In fact, Jesus told His followers not to be called “leaders” or “fathers” or assume any position of authority over each other because we are all brothers having the same Heavenly Father and Jesus is to be the only Leader we (who are Christians) follow.
Most Christians today have completely forgotten that Jesus said that HE would build HIS Church. Yet, somehow, they think this is now their job to take over. Not only have they taken it over, they have changed virtually every meaning in the Bible to support their traditions. Did you know that the word “church” is not even in the original text of Scripture? It’s 100% true! That word was added centuries later by religious leaders who wanted to turn men’s focus from God and His people to buildings and hierarchical church leaders.
Some of my “Protestant” Christian friends would be shocked to discover that virtually everything they do in church Sunday morning is a product derived from Roman Catholicism (a religion they think they are so different from). And as far as Catholicism goes, most of its requirements have absolutely no origin in Scripture either and many practices are actually derived from pagan practices and influences. Protestants and Catholics are in virtually the same boat and it’s a boat that God did not build. They did!…. read more
Bravo to Dave from TruthForFree. I don’t agree with everything in this article, but he certainly makes a lot of good points about people being uninterested in the origins of the religion the subscribe to.
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