Christianity is not monolithic. It is instead highly fragmented, highly confused, and highly confusing. It is feverish and quarrelsome. Over the centuries many of its practitioners were violent, and some no doubt are so today. Others, by preaching hatred, incite it, still others proclaim that love is the answer, and most, in my opinion, are swept this way and that by the winds that blow from pulpits, television programs, blogs, newsletters, websites, radio programs, religious books, music CD’s, DVD’s, video games, and the like, and when the multitude hunger they are too often fed political dogma instead of manna.
This roiling, boiling, highly fluid situation is understandable when one remembers that the Christian Religion, like political parties, the Supreme Court, the Congress, and the Executive Branch, is made up of human beings, none of whom are divine, or chosen by God, but many of whom think they are – and many of those are in positions of leadership.
Tyranno-Christianity threatens the world and your soul with God-imposed death and destruction should its tenets not be obeyed. It brings more trouble into an already troubled world. It punishes children for the sins of their fathers. It is intolerant on several levels. It is obsessed with sex. It is antisocial (hostile to the well-being of society) and separatist. Rather than using the public school system like everybody else, it builds its own schools, but wants tax dollars to fund them. It prides itself on its charity but wants tax dollars to fund it. It is anti knowledge and pro ignorance, and therefore anti progress. It promotes hatred. It is absolutely certain of itself. It knows the mind of God—except when it is asked to explain the suffering of innocents. It lives to tell others how to live. It exhibits many of the characteristics of Antisocial Personality Disorder. It perfectly fits Jimmy Carter’s definition of Christian fundamentalists – it favors "rigidity, domination, and exclusion." It is the more hypocritical of the two varieties of Christianity. It practices the Tyranno-Golden Rule of Reciprocity:
You are to love your neighbors as yourself, and to do this you must persuade, or require, them to live their lives the way you want.
Liberto-Christianity offers peace, love, and forgiveness to a troubled world. It is more tolerant, for which it is attacked by the tyranno-sect. It is certain that it does not know the mind of God. It often follows the teachings of Jesus Christ, a libertus. It practices charity and pays for it itself. It sends its children to the public schools and tries to make the schools better. It works with all its neighbors to make society better and America stronger and safer. It recognizes that the Christian God wrote two books: the Christian Bible and the Book of Nature. Liberto-Christianity sees no problem with knowledge and Science. It wants its children to understand God’s Creation. It practices "live and let live." It does not suffer from a personality disorder. All Christians claim that they belong to liberto-Christianity even though most do not. It is the less hypocritical of the two varieties of Christianity. It practices the Liberto-Golden Rule of Reciprocity:
You are to love your neighbors as yourself, and to do this you must protect their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
So when diaries or comments appear on DKos that cricize Christianity the diarists and commenters are talking about Tyranno-Christianity, but the Christians respond defensively because they think the attacks are against Liberto-Christianity. This is the cause of the constant bickering I see here. Tyranno-Christianity is bad, Liberto-Christianity is good. So, Christians, please don't be so quick to lash out, give the critics the benefit of the doubt. They are talking about Tyranno-Christianity not your Liberto-Christianity. America would be a better place if Tyranno-Christianity could be converted to Liberto-Christianity.