Reason Five: THE CHRISTIAN
RELIGION IS CONFUSING AND FULL OF HYPOCRITES
Jesus accomplished many fine things on the
cross for the sake of the whole world: "Our advocate before the Father is
Jesus Christ and he is just, the one who made personal atonement for our sins
and for those of the rest of the world as well."*
Satan can’t do anything to ruin this. But he
can do a lot to keep people from knowing about it. Satan’s main weapon is
hypocrisy. He packs this hypocrisy into the pill of false teaching. Then he
grinds that pill into a batter of confusion, cooks it on the griddle of
religion, and serves it every Sunday with organ music and good singing. (It has
to look good, taste good and sound good or people won’t swallow it.)
If you think Satan is a mythological figure,
try to start my car. I don’t give Satan more power than he has, but I don’t
sell him short, either. He doesn’t have a pitch fork or a pointy tail like the
Christian tracts paint him. Satan loves that caricature. Why shouldn’t he? He
invented it. And he distributes it through the unwitting cooperation of the many
Christian tract companies.
Satan's goal is to turn the world
from God. He wants people to look at God and say:" What an
idiot." Does alcohol turn the world from God? No, people addicted to
alcohol generally turn to God. Does pornography turn the world from
God? No. A man does not look at the picture of a naked woman and
say, "God is an idiot."
Satan turns the world from God
through people who roll down church aisles. He turns the world from God
through hypocrites who say, "my salvation is nothing of myself," then
who point to unchurched people and say," it's their own fault they're going to
hell". He turns the world from God through hypocrites who say,
"salvation by faith is of grace," then who damn the world for
faithlessness.
The world is so sick of Christian
hypocrisy. They're sick of hearing about "grace" in one breath,
"damnation" in the next. They're sick of the strange Christian god who
loves people "unconditionally," up until the time He damns them for
not loving Him back.
*(1 John2:2)
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