How to destroy Christianity
by Shelby Cade
Christianity is a worldview that has been in existence for around 2000 years. During those years many have attempted to discredit the Christian message. The attempt to discredit Christianity began early, but how does one destroy Christianity?
The earliest attempt to destroy the Christian message came from the Jewish community. Upon discovery of the empty tomb the Jewish leaders spread the story that the followers of Jesus stole the body. This attempt to destroy the early Christian message failed, for many claimed to have encountered the resurrected Jesus.
The next attempt to destroy Christianity was wrought by the Roman Empire through persecution. According to the Roman method, all you need to do is simply murder and suppress all Christians. Persecution of Christians by torture and killing also failed to stop the movement. As early Church Father, Tertullian, once said, "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."
Many years passed until the Age of Enlightenment. At this time and prior, people were starting to question long held beliefs of God and the Christian worldview. Science and reason was pushed to the forefront as to how one acquires knowledge and answers to life’s big questions.
Some in the scientific realm came to believe that it was the holder of all knowledge that could known. Theories started to develop and still do today to try and explain away the existence of God. Science was seen by many as pitting itself against the Christian worldview, primarily because the supernatural realm can’t be investigated by way of scientific testing. Therefore, on this view, the supernatural must not exist, nor miracles which operate outside of natural explanations. The route of the naturalist was simply to destroy God, and then Christianity and all other religions would fall. However, this approach failed to destroy Christianity…
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No one knows who wrote the gospels, and even if we did know who they were, they wrote the gospels long after the death of Christ. None of the writers of the gospels actually knew Jesus. The Romans killed Christians because Christians believed in martyrdom and what better way to go for a martyr than to die for your beliefs without resistance. Of course the Romans, prior to the adoption of Christian philosophy, did not see martyrdom as a noble goal to pursue, and who can blame them? It is better to fight for yourself and what you love not willingly hope for death! If every Christian martyred themself there would be no Christianity to speak of!
Religions claims to have perfect knowledge, not science. In fact, science is the exact opposite of how you characterized it. Any good scientist knows that the search for knowledge will most likely never end, and that only the arrogant claim to know absolute truth as religious people claim to possess.
There are many things that can’t be tested by science but that doesn’t prove they are true at all, it just means no one really knows for sure, at least scientifically speaking, whether the supernatural is true. But there is alot of evidence to suggest that the supernatural is a poor explanation for most things in nature. But for people who aren’t interested in the natural world, then the supernatural should suit them. But why take any of their claims seriously if there is no way of proving or disproving the supernatural? Isn’t it better to just suspend judgement until we have evidence to support one point of view over another? Or is it better to just blindly believe in any supernatural claim without thinking about it critically? If so, then it seems that a religion like christianity, is hypocritical since it criticizes science for questioning the supernatural, but insists that believers simply adopt belief in the supernatural for no reason at all. And that is a sign of a compelling philosophy?
Christianity is one of those religions which has the seed of its own destruction built into its own worldview. Other people won’t destroy christianity, christianity will destroy itself most likely through obsolescence or irrelevancy.