Gripe of the Day: Christian Proselytes!

I don't know about you but I am so irritated and offended by those Christian commercials. Although I don't have anything against any particular religion, me being a non-religious person and all, I can't help but to feel the agony of those non-Christian folk who have to deal with this crap. Imagine yourself as a good Christian person, trying to raise your children to be good Christian people, and every time you turn on your television or radio, there's this person, speaking with genuine passion - the kind that the innocent mind of a child is open to, and the voice says, "Satan loves you. Pray in his name and you will get REAL results. Satan fell from heaven for you because he believed in your right to have free-will." I imagine that for Muslims, Some Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists and a host of other non-Christian folk, this must be exactly what they feel. Then there's the constant Christian programming, especially on Sundays.

What's the deal with this commercialization of & relentless promotion and proselytizing by Christians on behalf of the Christian religion? Christians claim to be so tolerant and accepting but they constantly violate other people's faith and make conscious efforts to obstruct their practice and under-mind their beliefs. It's this lack of tolerance and the hostile stance the Christian religion has towards other people's beliefs that will be its downfall. What the Christian religion is practicing is a system of conversion that is antiquated and goes back to the bloody days of the Holly wars and British colonization. Why, if you believe that your God is the one, only and true God, would anyone feel the need to force-feed their beliefs down another person's throat? Let's think about this: THE God, creator of everything, all powerful entity, doesn't see fit to make everybody Christians, but the Christian faithful know better. I say, if you're right about your faith, then a person who wants to find God, will find their way to the truth - you don't need to be offensive towards every other faith to promote your beliefs if they are true.

I am impressed by the Dali Lama, a very wise and good person, but I never see him on TV telling me that I need to believe what he believes, yet millions find their way to him. These are new times and the world is way more diverse. There are hardly any pure race people remaining on this planet because our cultural integration has lead to our physical inter-breeding. In old times, religion was almost synonymous with race or ethnicity because every group of people lived in their own little corner of the world and had developed their own distinct beliefs and relationships with the "greater-power". As people left their little corners of the world and explored the planet at large, they found other people with other beliefs and they even looked different - alien even. Some people could accept the differences and some, out of fear, thought that they had to conquer and convert. They saw faith as some sort of competition wherein the correct faith would be determined by which one was left standing. The religious wars started and today, it seems that the only people still interested in fighting are the Christians. Everybody has pretty much realized that religion is very personal and people are going to believe what works for them within their culture. In fact, Christians have so many dominations of their faith because at some point, the conventional practice no longer worked for someone so they altered it.

No one proselytizes any more but the Christians. They seem to be the slowest and most obstinate when it comes to change and tolerance. They seem to still want to be the "winners" of a long ago fought war. They haven't even noticed that they're the only ones left on the battle field. That doesn't stop them from provoking everyone else, every chance they get. They insist that there be a fight. You MUST believe what they believe or they'll harass your congregations, under-mind your beliefs and if need be - kill you! Christianity sucks. Anywho, I'm vented.