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The Incredible Stupidity of “Christians” Online

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Watch this video:

OK, were you as shocked as I was? Here’s the original version of that song to restore your proper brain functions.

How desperate are Christians to mimic popular culture to try to reach out to the youth of the present age to win new converts to their religion? Well, if you are familiar with Batman and other superheros, how about the Christian version of one?

And looooooong before that, there was the “Heaven’s metal” band Stryper, which I heard so much about back when I was myself a Christian in the 1980s.

The basic premise of all these “Christian” things above is “if we give our youth versions of popular culture that meet OUR standards, they won’t be corrupted by the satanic stuff out there.”

Well, it is NOT working!

Rewriting a bigoted article about religion

Princess Leia was right!

Another former Christian rocker defects to non-theism

More to the point of why the efforts to mimic popular culture is failing, even some Christians themselves can see the nonsense for what it is.

But those who know better are not in control of the Christian churches, or “Christian” media outlets. So they are alienated.

Amy Grant, one of the most powerful Christian singers, faced a crisis of faith when she found herself divorcing fellow Christian artist Gary Chapman. Their both being Christian wasn’t enough to make their marriage work, because Chapman had a toxic personality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Chapman_(musician)#Personal_life

Chapman married Amy Grant on June 19, 1982. Grant filed for divorce from Chapman in March 1999, citing “irreconcilable differences”, and the divorce was finalized in June 1999.[16]

Chapman married Jennifer Pittman in July 2000. Chapman and Pittman divorced in 2007.[1]

On December 22, 2008, Chapman married Cassie Piersol.[1][17] The couple began a project called A Hymn a Week in 2010 to honor the musical heritage left to Chapman by his parents.[3] Chapman has stated that both his parents, who were small-town pastors for their entire lives, had a strong influence in his life and they “implanted the hymns into [his] heart”.

This is what happens when you are not firmly connected with REALITY.

Amy Grant found true love with another.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Grant#Personal_life

On March 10, 2000, Grant married country singer-songwriter Vince Gill, who had been previously married to country singer Janis Oliver of Sweethearts of the Rodeo.[51] Grant and Gill have one daughter together, Corrina Grant Gill, born March 12, 2001.[52]

In the November 1999 CCM Magazine, Grant explained why she left Chapman and married Gill:

I didn’t get a divorce because ‘I had a great marriage and then along came Vince Gill.’ Gary and I had a rocky road from day one. I think what was so hard—and this is (what) one of our counselors said—sometimes an innocent party can come into a situation, and they’re like a big spotlight. What they do is reveal, by comparison, the painful dynamics that are already in existence.[53]

Christians everywhere need to understand that their religion does not save anyone. Having a healthy personality can save people! I myself only learned that after going into and then out of ANOTHER dogmatic God-centered religion.

A Baha’i Divorce

After I left the Baha’i Faith, I realized that religion simply has nothing whatsoever to do with one’s character; if people have screwed up personalities, religion actually can make them worse by making them think that believing certain dogmas and following certain rituals will save them and make them great people before God and their fellow humans. I know from my own experience with myself and others that this is simply a lie.

This should be called PROSTITUTION!

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No child should have to endure this sort of nonsense!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/13-yr-old_says_no_to_marriage_in_Rajasthan/articleshow/3110142.cms

13-yr-old says no to marriage in Rajasthan

JAISALMER: A 13-year-old girl is revolting against a hoary tradition that has crushed many a childhood in Rajasthan – child marriage.

Refusing to crumble under social pressure, Asu Kunwar from Sedhana village, near Pokhran, stood up to her father who was bent on marrying her off to a 40-year-old for Rs 49,000 and a gold chain.

Bhom Singh now has to return the money to his prospective son-in-law in the face of resistance from Asu, who sought police protection.

Bhom Singh struck the deal with Sawai Singh two years ago, promising to give him his daughter’s hand when she was older. He was forced to send back his prospective son-in-law after Asu put her foot down.

Soon she had won her mother over to her side, but the father, who had already taken the bride price of Rs 49,000 tried to push her into wedlock this April, saying a date had already been fixed and a Rajput had to honour his word.

Confronted by the empowered mother-daughter duo, Sawai Singh, meanwhile, reached out to the larger male-dominated community and village panchayat of Sedhana. He also went to the local police to seek their help, but they refused to intervene.

Petitioned by Sawai Singh, the village panchayat met and decided it was only fair that the man be allowed to marry the 13-year-old. Villagers then gathered around the girl’s house and tried to force her to agree to the wedding.

Seeing the community against her, Asu’s mother went to Indu Chopra, a woman official of the local women and child development department.

That’s when the official organised protection for the mother and child and warned the villagers to back off. A police force, which had till then stood as mute spectators, was then forced to step in and caution Asu’s father about the consequences of violating the ban on child marriage.

Bhom Singh, villagers said, has now borrowed money from various sources to pay back the bride price.

It’s illegal to sell babies in most parts of the world and for women to have sex for money (prostitution). Why is it acceptable in ANY society, tradition bound or not, to take money from an older man and then force your daughter to marry that man when she is still a child?! That father should be locked up, along with the prospective groom, and the girl and her mother should be honored as heros for human rights.