Basic and Commonsensical

Why, why do people insist on prattling moronically about religions they don’t remotely understand?

Do I express opinions on Hinduism or Buddhism? Never. Because I know nothing, and it would be presumptuous to opine.

Christianity built our world. Our Western world. It seems normal to us because that’s all we know. Fishes perceive the world as wet because that’s their world. Thankfully, fishes don’t write tweets because there’s already enough stupidity out there as it is.

The Christian civilization-building process was painful and difficult. There’s absolutely nothing easily commonsensical about Christian teachings. Even today, two thousand years after Jesus’s birth, there’s not a Christian in existence who isn’t struggling daily with following his teachings. It’s not easy or “basic”. It’s very, very hard. Back in Jesus’s time, what he had to say was beyond revolutionary. It was otherworldly.

Many people have this weird idea that Christianity is about perceiving yourself as vaguely nice. And since everybody thinks themselves to be exceptionally nice, that’s it, all that is left to do is to pout that others are not as nice. It’s of course a failing of the churches that stopped explaining the doctrine or requiring anything at all. Like colleges who admit everybody and hand out diplomas for anybody who deigns to pretend to attend.