As I see it, there is a clear distinction between Jesus Christ, Christianity (the system) and individual Christians. Having been a Christian for over twenty-five years (August 1978 to April 2005), I make a clear distinction between Christianity, which I consider to be an evil system, and individual Christians, who I believe are trapped in...
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Pharisee, Sadducee and Franchisee.
The Spiritual Warfare Continues in Christianity. Back in the day when the Roman Empire ruled the world there were two classes of ‘professional Jew’, the Sadducees and Pharisees. The Pharisees and Sadducees. The Pharisees, and their sidekicks the Scribes, were the dominant professional class. They ruled the roost in every town and village, from the...Continue reading
Christianity is a Meaningless Franchise.
Wrecked by division, not united in Love! A franchise is a business whereby the owner, the franchisor, licenses its operations — along with its products, branding and knowledge — to another business owner, the franchisee, in exchange for a franchise fee. (expanded Investopedia definition) Christianity is big business. Before you argue that Christianity isn’t a...Continue reading
No Orthodoxy, No Heresy!
The only way power-hungry people can control others is by creating some form of uniformity. For example, soldiers have to wear the same uniform and march in step. Any soldier who doesn’t comply with the army’s dress code or marches out of step is easy to spot and discipline. The same is true with respect...Continue reading
An introduction to five serious mistakes the apostles made.
In this article, I want to point out that the apostles were people just like us; they weren’t perfect, they made mistakes and their mistakes had disastrous consequences for Christianity and the true Church of Jesus Christ. People like us. It is a fact that, although born again and Spirit-filled, disciples of Jesus Christ are...Continue reading
My Spiritual Journey
This is a short overview of my journey from atheism, to my conversion to Christianity in 1978 and ultimately leaving Christianity in 2005 to become an ordinary human being and a Spirit-filled disciple of Jesus Christ. A Challenge to God. At fifteen, I was a militant, anti-Christian atheist. I was sick and tired of the...
The three worst things that can happen to any religion.
As I see it, the following three things are a curse on any religion; at least the ones I have studied but I am sure it applies to all. These things also tend to appear in the sequence below. 1. The next generation, the bureaucrats. Lacking the spiritual power of the first generation, the following...Continue reading