How Anyone can be god in 4 easy steps with Jenny Craig!

I was just contemplating the whole story of christianity and it seems the reason christianity has such a following is largely luck. I mean I could call a strand of hair god and then call another strand of hair the son of god and then go around hitting people with it saying "you are healed" then get a whole bunch of ppl to pretend they saw it rise from the dead. Then I could get a person to go arounf preaching the word of our lord my strand of hair. If the strand of hair is lucky the US could make it their main religion then the world goes in to the dark ages where ppl desperate for hope use hair the god as support and then they procreate and 2000 years later it is a major religion! viola

Which brings us to wise words of the ancient chinese philosopher, Zhuang Zi.

If our ancestors had called Heaven "Horse" and Horse "Heaven", we'd be looking at a gift heaven in the mouth and when we die we go to horse.

Lundie wrote

Which brings us to wise words of the ancient chinese philosopher, Zhuang Zi.

If our ancestors had called Heaven "Horse" and Horse "Heaven", we'd be looking at a gift heaven in the mouth and when we die we go to horse.

LOL:lol:

I think the answer to why Christianity is so popular is more than luck. Just think of how most people today become Christian: they were born into it. Convince only a small amount of people that their children will go to hell if they don't baptize them and brainwash them into believing all kinds of crap and pretty soon everyone will believe it. It's like a small town where everyone has the same last name. Throw in a few biblical lines on converting the infidels and an environment devoid of science and reason and before you know it you have an entrenched social institution. You also have to figure that some religions have slight advantages over others in the same way that some species can outcompete others. A religion that has central tenets that make their followers less likely to survive would die off pretty quickly.

Your hair idea probably wouldn't work today, when Christian sects control the market of public thought, but it is definitely exactly as ridiculous as the foundations of any religion.

whoneedscience wrote

I think the answer to why Christianity is so popular is more than luck. Just think of how most people today become Christian: they were born into it. Convince only a small amount of people that their children will go to hell if they don't baptize them and brainwash them into believing all kinds of crap and pretty soon everyone will believe it. It's like a small town where everyone has the same last name. Throw in a few biblical lines on converting the infidels and an environment devoid of science and reason and before you know it you have an entrenched social institution. You also have to figure that some religions have slight advantages over others in the same way that some species can outcompete others. A religion that has central tenets that make their followers less likely to survive would die off pretty quickly.

Your hair idea probably wouldn't work today, when Christian sects control the market of public thought, but it is definitely exactly as ridiculous as the foundations of any religion.

Ya, that was my another point I sought to make, the ludicriousy of religion

Now that you mention the 4 easy steps thing :lol:

http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/perfectproof.htm

This guy on Infidel forums, named Troy2, spamming his invention. He offered 1000$ to whoever could disprove his theory. After being blasted by the atheists there he was banned after apparant spam. Amusing nontheless.

Part of Christianity's success is that anybody can join and thus become one of the superior chosen people. You don't have to be born an ethnic Jew, or an ethnic Inca, or have royal parents to get into the religion.

With Christianity, even a complete looser can be inducted into the highest caste. That has a lot of appeal.

If you want to study how to start a religion, look at Joe Smith and Mormonism.

Little Earth Stamper wrote

Part of Christianity's success is that anybody can join and thus become one of the superior chosen people. You don't have to be born an ethnic Jew, or an ethnic Inca, or have royal parents to get into the religion.

With Christianity, even a complete looser can be inducted into the highest caste. That has a lot of appeal.

If you want to study how to start a religion, look at Joe Smith and Mormonism.

Okay. But people not born Jews can become Jews though can't they?

They can't have my inch and a half! ! ! (actually I lost that at birth, thanks to W.K. Kellogg)

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God, my arse wrote

Okay. But people not born Jews can become Jews though can't they?

Yep. They can convert, learn the rituals, and become wholly Jewish.

Ten

Tenspace wrote

Yep. They can convert, learn the rituals, and become wholly Jewish.

Ten

And get treated as second-class citizens by those who were born jews? no thanks!