Please enlighten me on how the Christian idea that Jesus is the only way to heaven, the thing pretty much every Christian church preaches and was used to justify forced conversions of Indigenous peoples as part of the genocide against them, as well as the enslaving of Africans by Christian landowners, both using the “we’re doing them a favour no matter how many atrocities we commit against then bevause we’re still saving them from eternal damnation in hell” rethoric, is actually not Christian. Jesus didn’t say the only way to “salvation” is through him? What does salvation mean if not avoiding hell then?
@HiddenLayer555 I have more respect for you than to believe that you can’t imagine how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion’s theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife.
Jesus’s whole cult was about, yes, salvation through his sacrifice. This is Christianity 101.
how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion’s theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife
That is a good point. I concede that. I’ve only experienced Christianity from mainstream denominations and I can see how that has biased me and poisoned my opinions of Jesus.
Please enlighten me on how the Christian idea that Jesus is the only way to heaven, the thing pretty much every Christian church preaches and was used to justify forced conversions of Indigenous peoples as part of the genocide against them, as well as the enslaving of Africans by Christian landowners, both using the “we’re doing them a favour no matter how many atrocities we commit against then bevause we’re still saving them from eternal damnation in hell” rethoric, is actually not Christian. Jesus didn’t say the only way to “salvation” is through him? What does salvation mean if not avoiding hell then?
@HiddenLayer555 I have more respect for you than to believe that you can’t imagine how organized religion whose institutions had a great deal of power might get it into their heads to reshape their religion’s theology in order to say that one must follow that religion to be secure in the afterlife.
Jesus’s whole cult was about, yes, salvation through his sacrifice. This is Christianity 101.
That is a good point. I concede that. I’ve only experienced Christianity from mainstream denominations and I can see how that has biased me and poisoned my opinions of Jesus.