Realism

Along with my last entry entitled "Presentation", and an idea that I came across about "practical atheism" (the belief in God, yet living as if you don't), I come to a general feeling that Christianity today (at least American Christianity in large part) has lost all sense of realism. Christians have this fictional, fantastical view of Jesus/God/religion that is so far from reality, that I don't accept it as being authentic anymore. Jesus was killed, was crucified. He was hated. In the Pharisee's eyes, he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey with a mob, getting ready to overthrow the Roman Regime. Jesus was seen as a social injustice savior/messiah and political/militaristic threat, not a religious/spiritual Christ figure.

Not only do I sense a general unrealistic representation of history being told by Christians, I also see their opinion of anyone not-Christian as being incredibly limited and degrading. Jews are "those silly/stupid Jews, they got everything wrong." Christians throw the word "crazy" around a lot to explain anything that's not-Christian, as if nothing that is not-Christian has any kind of merit. Sadducees are condemned for their ignorance of Christ, yet the Christian Church today is the Biblical-Time's Sadducees. Atheist, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Sikh are not mindless attempts. Philosophy is not mindless. Hating religion is not a senseless view.

Christians have painted such an elaborate fantasy that they have created a myth: it has some truth with a lot of falsehood, exaggeration, and ignorance.