[Little Horn]

As I’m sure that most of you are aware by now, I am not a Christian. In most cases I absolutely despise religion and the way that it manipulates, otherwise intelligent people into believing in fairy tales. However, I study religion in my spare time and am working towards a PhD in Theology. I find that the stories outlined within the bible and other religious books fascinating.

To me, religion has always been about control, a clever little way for the powerful to maintain control over the masses. I find that people are inherently weak minded and have to believe that they have an imaginary friend watching over them. In addition, people need to have a bad guy. Someone to blame when they face failure or misfortune. The ultimate scapegoat. Religionists have always had the cure for this flaw in humanity – God. But, with this, there comes a small price.

I’ve often wondered what it is in out nature that makes us so weak. Why do we feel it necessary to create fictional characters? We’ve done it since before the beginning of recorded history, long before the idea of a Judeo-Christian god or Jesus Christ emerged. After all these years, are we still that primitive that we must create Gods as a way to explain creation?

What is it about God and Jesus Christ that makes your religion legit over all the other religions of the world, past and present. This is a point that Richard Dawkins has brought up on many occasions, why do you believe in Jesus Christ and not Zeus or Eros? Why not Allah? The idea that every religion in the world is “the only true religion” does nothing more than discredit EVERY religion. The fact that every religion in the world has followers that have claimed to have some sort of divine intervention from their God does nothing more than raise doubt as to which religion is “telling the truth”. How can you commit to one religion and completely discredit every other religion?