I just can't convert to Christianity. It's dumb

This is related to contemporary politics. I'm pretty much assimilated into European high-culture, but one thing I have so much trouble in is seeing the value in Christianity. This is coming from someone who left behind Islam at a young age, seeing it for the bullshit that it is, but Christianity strikes me as just as stupid, just in different ways. I mean, I like many European and American writers, artists, film directors, and more, but I simply cannot bring myself to see any value in Christianity. I am told that a random nomadic Jew was the son of God and to worship him above all else while paradoxically being told European culture is superior. I mean, if this were so, then why do you worship a Jew, a non-European, as God incarnate? This religion makes no sense, and I've read a lot of St. Thomas Aquinas. I mean, yes, there does seem to be some value in some mystics like Meister Eckhart, but they're still kind of retarded when compared to Eastern mystics like Hui Neng and Lao Tzu. Even if I had a sword above my head and was intimidated to convert to Christianity or Islam, I could not do this sincerely because none of them seem to have any real, powerful arguments to them. Compare the Bible or Koran to the sophisticated arguments of Nagarjuna's MMK or Upanishads, and you'll see why I have little to no respect for Abrahamic faiths. Even the Zoroastrian Gathas has more depth, and that's like 800-1100 BCE. And let's be real here, "Christian" European nationalist makes as much sense as Islamic Persian nationalist. They just don't fit together no matter how hard you try. I've tried hard to believe in your "Jesus", but I simply can't. I agree, Jesus was a far better man than the war-mongerer Muhammad, but at the end of the day, he was still a megalomaniac Jew that viewed himself as the literal embodiment of God that others cannot access. Not even Buddha, Zarathustra, or Bodhidharma ever did this shit. I believe the West and Iran should adopt a new religion like Buddhism.

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You've already posted this. Nobody cares.

The way I approach theological or religious texts is in an impartial manner that ignores the behavior of the adherents. When I do this, I see that Nagarjuna's MMK, Hui Neng's Platform Sutra, and other Dharmic texts have far more rigorous depth to them than Abrahamic ones. I can actually defend Mahayana Buddhism, even by referencing to Neuroscience, whereas I cannot do this at all with Christianity or Islam. The Bible and Koran lack the depth and intellectual profundity of Mahayana Buddhism, and I feel this is undeniable to anyone who approaches their theological texts in an impartial honest manner.

Maybe it's time people stop only caring about "muh race" and focus on more pressing existential matters, such as how retarded Christianity and Islam are leading to spiritual decline.

You live in a secular society now, faggot. Get used to it. You spineless, disgusting subservience to fairy tales is disgusting.

The Mahayana texts I have read have sophisticated metaphysical arguments that do not contradict modern scientific findings. They are not "fairy tales", except to the ignorant. Regardless, many Christians and Muslims and their religions lack the depth and profundity of the Dharma.

Don't bother, the redpill is that all religions are evil.
If we would abolish them, most conflicts on earth would resolve in an instant.

I disagree. Much of Mahayana Buddhism has profound philosophical depth, and it is not evil or superstitious the way Abrahamic religions are. Like I've said, I can defend much of Mahayana Buddhism with the use of Neuroscience, Western philosophy, and rigorous phenomenology. I cannot do this with Abrahamic faiths.

Don't worship Jesus just follow his example, that's what he wanted.

His actions don't really make sense outside of the context of his megalomaniac, savior complex. The lives of many Buddhists, like Shiwu (Stonehouse), made more sense.

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>world becomes an uncultured fuck fest

Yes, follow his example and get circumcised

Yeshua as an actual man was probably more of a Judean nationalist than what you're describing,. The savior of mankind, uncircumcised goyim welcome Christianity was largely created by Saul, who never knew Yeshua and came along after he died.

If you don't literally believe any of it, and are detached enough to step back from them and a analyze them objectively, why do you feel the need to have a metaphysical religion at all?

If buddhism is practiced by people without worship, purely using it's philosophical and moral teachings then it is exempt. However, even in Buddhism there is such a component that is worshipped for being special (Dalai Lama)
It's the worshipping component that drives people to murder each other in the name of their god or leader because it creates a artificial hierarchy that is and will never be compatible with other religions. "My god / leader is better than yours, i do not tolerate another being higher or on the same level than him"

none of you shitskins is ever "pretty much assimilated into European high-culture". i can prove it: who painted pic related? it's the very minimum i can ask from a man "pretty much assimilated into European high-culture".

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nervermind. google finds it anyway.

Christianity is a Jewish trick. Don't fall for it.

>very minimum
I didnt know who that is most europeans have no fucking clue about anything pertaining to paintings

Why do you feel the need to be part of any religion? Be your own man you stupid faggot.

are you gonna tell me paganism is the alternative?

You spew nonsense

There are many different sects of Buddhism. Most Mahayana Buddhist sects discourage worship. Bowing to Buddha statue is interpreted as metaphorically bowing to Buddha nature within all.

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Fair question. Why LARP if it's just for the philosophy?

simply because most europeans are not "pretty much assimilated into European high-culture" like OP.

Real Buddhism has never been written down. The True religion is an oral tradition, all you will find in texts are stories, dogma, and hollow ritual.

>all you will find in texts are stories, dogma, and hollow ritual.
This is coming from someone who hasn't read the texts. Go read Nagarjuna's MMK or Hui Neng's Platform Sutra. They are very sophisticated and have profound depth. The problem with a lot of Westerners is you guys listen to meme speakers like Alan Watts over genuine figures like Bill Porter (Red Pine).

Bill Porter (Red Pine) >> Alan Watts

stop yelling at me hans

that's fine, just remember we need to catch up to the towel headed niggers

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I am assimilated into European high culture. I have had some of my fiction published.
You're not making any sense. A religion is a set of metaphysics, rituals, precepts/guidelines, and etc. I accept them in most Mahayana Buddhism.

If chink religion good why chink no believe in it anymore?

>What did he mean by this?

"For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof."
Hosea 8:14, KJV

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."
Revelation 3:9, KJV

Again, I am not interested in conflating social domain with the actual philosophical or praxis of the religion. It's dumb to get them mixed up.
Even if the Muslims were more civilized in this time period, I would still say the religion is retarded. I'm not focusing on the social domain whatsoever in this thread.

You have to back. No one likes you here and you're not european and never will be

>Real Buddhism
Has never been tried.

you can't choose your religion it's (in) your being. all the books and organized dogma miss the point.

Yeshua: "salvation is of the jews"; "do not go into non-jewish lands, do not preach to non-jews"; refuses to help a non-jewish woman with a demon-possessed daughter until she compares non-jews ro dogs begging for scraps of food from the tables of their jewish masters; says the rock lf his Church is Peter, whp refuses to even eat meals in the same room as uncircumcised people.

Saul, years after Yeshua's death: "There is no man nor woman, greek nor jews, only one in Christ"

>No one likes you here
It's just a load of bullshit. I wouldn't have been academically successful or had my work published if what you say is true. Of course, am imbecile such as you doesn't like me, but you don't speak for everyone. I bet most of your own kin would hate you more than me if they saw our lives side-by-side.

That's a load of bullshit. Ideology can serve to orient one's actions, and one can pick his or her ideology.

>Real Buddhism
You see this statement is very retarded, as it's individual however you in fact thinks "that way" is the real way etc, you see how it turns into a real issue even with two people having diffirent "real" takes on a subject.

He probably listens to meme thinkers like Alan Watts over actual scholarly ones like Bill Porter (Red Pine).

>You're not making any sense

The question makes total sense: why do you feel the need for a metaphysical religion if you're detached enough from genuine, literal belief in any of them that you can analyze and compare their respective merits as something to be chosen between?

If you literally believe in the metaphysical claims of Buddhism, then why are you pretending that your beliefs are up for debate and undecided in this thread?

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Ideology is not a religion.

Of course you can choose to follow a religion without really believing its metaphysical claims. The question is, why do you feel the need to?

Or, if this is already settled and you absolutely know with total faith that the metaphysical claims of Buddhism are the truth of reality and existence itself, why are you pretending otherwise?

link please. also, self-published, or partially self-published ,or published by alternative editors, doesn't mean "published".
your op is absolute trash, since if you have ever been acquainted with our culture you would know that religion is for us not more than a pretext for something else. therefore your criticism to christian mysticism, in addition to being very fuzzy, is also specious. you see, any illiterate european will understand the complexity of the iliad (e.g.) in a way you foreign pseudo-intellectuals can only dream of, because our culture is written in any ancestral gesture, any shade of taste, any saying, any phenotypical character, any attitude towards death, which you simply don't share with us. period. you will never be "assimilated".

You're not making sense because the way you frame your question is full of assumptions:
>if you're detached enough from genuine, literal belief in any of them
Never said this. You just made this up.
>you can analyze and compare their respective merits as something to be chosen between
Yes, I can do this, and I picked Mahayana Buddhism mostly.
>If you literally believe in the metaphysical claims of Buddhism, then why are you pretending that your beliefs are up for debate and undecided in this thread?
Buddhists had frequent debates with Charvakans, Jains, and Hindus. There is nothing wrong with courteous and civil debate and open dialogue. I don't get your point.

>without really believing its metaphysical claims.
I do believe in Buddhist metaphysical claims, but it is not a faith based religion. It is an experiential religion.

Why would I point my name out there?
>you will never be "assimilated".
Plenty of Europeans would disagree with you. You don't speak for everyone, and what you're saying is hyperbolic. You are ignoring the own debates and tensions within your own culture. It's not like all Europeans have the same ideology or worldview.

>I point my name out there?
I put my name out here*

Don’t Convert to earth. Do you believe the earth is a living organism? And we evolve, adapt and die just like our planet. We are just a organisms created by an organism like mold on bread.

Then why are you pretending to be considering other religions? You already have one.

The actual details of Christianity, the personality traits of its figures, wouldn't factor in at all to you, because you know the religion is false. This entire thread was just you playing a character.

Christianity as a religion is dying, but societies need a religion to survive. As such your new religion will be islam and you will be forced to comply in the future.

This will apply to all western nations and this is why this religion alone is protected as it is.

If you have actual arguments that I find sophisticated and robust, then I would admit defeat and consider attempting conversion again. My religion encourages doubt and open dialogue.

The artist is hokusai.

Islam is just as dumb, if not more. You think a dumb Bedouin savage had a special revelation in the deserts that thwarted all others. He was a war-mongerer maniac, and the Koran is very inconsistent and tends to veer towards extreme fanaticism. I have other more nuanced issues too.

tldr, it is dumb
religion in general is dumb
if it's not based on empirical evidence, it's going to need the leap of faith. more alien or repulsive the notions of a certain religion are to you culturally, the harder to believe.
catholicism is a heresy and it's basically a cult. requires blind, unquestioning faith. it was unable to reconcile basic contradictions in it's doctrine and hence was plagues by heresies and splits

>if you white
Come to Odin
Follow Left Hand Path

> Christinianity is dumb
You're former religion is a Christian heresy. Christianity is the Truth Islam is a joke.

>Never said this. You just made this up

The title of your thread is literally "I just can't convert to Christianity". This means you considered it and either attempted it or at least played out the scenario in your mind (or at leat this is the premise for the chatacter you were playing when you wrote the originsl post). You pretend to weigh the pros and cons of religions as if they can be rated for being worth converting to, when in faxt you already know they are all false since you are a genuine, literal, believing practicing Buddhist.

People who genuinely believe Allah is the one true God and creator of reality itself don't say "gee guys I'm just not sure I can convert to Hinduism, some of these gods seem like real dicks".

You were playing a character in this thread. Its just self-pleasure, wanting to feel like a special snowflake and hoping people would ask you about your Buddhism. You're boring and weird and no one cares.

I was looking exactly to express my similar beliefs man, what these are...they are not death cults in my view...but what they are in fact are empathy porn clubs.

EMPATHY PORN

have you looked outside? Everyone is wailing one way or another. One group of people is indulging in one form of empathy masturbation, the other one is doing the negative masturbation. Both groups are reliant on one another. Just as Islam and christianity are. The devil and god, both are necessary enslavement components.

But these things...this huge focus towards people...there is a reason why people call religion a mind virus. What you get from people, either their bad or their good response is a fucking dopamine kick. Love, and hate, sometimes they have a similar bio chemical profile so to speak...AND ITS ADDICTIVE

that is why I had this uneasy feeling these past few days and now I can express it. These people, and this event is meant to pull us into their garbage. We shouldnt. Its not only semetic garbage. It is also low IQ garbage. It is not a grande conspiracy. Simply the retards have found a mental masturbation script that is addictive and they have spread it to everyone.

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Then you don't believe the metaphysical claims of Buddhism. The Buddhists you talk about who debates religion with others were't shopping for one.

> Why would I point my name out there?
because you must either prove your claims or abstain from any claims.
> u-u don't speak for everyone
that's obvious. the main issue here is that you believe the american contemporary values (e.g. egalitarianism, humanitarianism, scandalism, inclusiveness, "pop culture", identity studies, gender studies, check your privilege, "everything is art", comics and movies, baby boomers, muh technology, optimism, work culture, traditional family culture, pedagogism, patriotism, communism, alt-right, etc) you believe , i was saying, those values overlap with the historical european ones. which is just fake. we , us and the mutts, are two very different things.

>academically successful or had my work published
Jason Jorjani is that you?

What version of the Bible are you using?
I ask because I didn't accept Christianity until I picked up a King James Bible. It's almost the opposite of the NIV Bible that most people use. The NIV Bible is where the "jew wrote the Bible" comes from, because jews did write it.
Pic up a King James, it's not a bible that turns you into pacifists tolerant accepting pussies, it tells you rather clearly, Do no tolerate degeneracy, liars, replacement or corruption.

>There are many different sects of Buddhism. Most Mahayana Buddhist sects discourage worship. Bowing to Buddha statue is interpreted as metaphorically bowing to Buddha nature within all.

this metaphorical buddha nature is embodied with the statue - they put a once mortal on a pedastal and this is worship. No way around it. Other religions see it that way and kill budhists for it.

oh i almost forgot the worse one: guns autism.

I would say modern Neuroscience has validated Buddhism. Thomas Metzinger's theory of self-model corresponded with much Mahayana metaphysics. His world-zero hypothesis is much like Satori.
Both Christianity and Islam are dumb and have no sophisticated arguments backing them. They are both not easy to believe.

I am not pretending to weight the pros and cons. I already have, and I genuinely don't believe either Christianity or Islam are easily defensible outside of ridiculous faith. Buddhism is easy to defend beyond faith fyi.

I can defend Buddhism with advanced philosophy. However, if you have arguments against my claims, then I would consider them impartially. I have never lost a philosophical debate.

He's not a Buddhist.
You keep putting words into my mouth, assuming what I believe, and more. I have watched many European art-house films and have good tastes in literature. Why don't you list your favorite films and writers, and you'll see how I am much more sophisticated once I give you my list.

I did read portions of KJV, and it did not convince me. It's just a bunch of Abrahamic myths, and I am told to believe in them with no evidence. I am told to have faith, and there is nothing experiential or directly accessible about its teachings the way Buddhism is, which says to look inward and find the truth within.

>I am told that a random nomadic Jew was the son of God and to worship him above all else while paradoxically being told European culture is superior. I mean, if this were so, then why do you worship a Jew, a non-European, as God incarnate?
Look up "christian identity". In short: you've bought a lie. Jesus was not a "Jew" as we use the word today. The people we call Jews today are Edomites, not descendants of Jacob at all, and every evil trait we associate with "Jews" are Edomite traits. The bible is clear on this: it warns us of false Jews who are the Synagogue of Satan. Weird that mainstream Christians ignore this. Also weird that mainstream Christians accept the current portrayal of ancient Hebrews as a dark skinned, dark haired, brown eyed, arab-esque people, when the bible routinely describes them as having fair skin, blue eyes, and light hair.

Nobody really seems to question what happens to the Samaritans, the Israelites who are banished from their homeland and wander off into the world, and yet the bible says we'll know them by their works... who built this world, who makes it good? We read the Greek and then the Roman accounts of the Scythians, a nomadic people who inexplicably tell the story of Joseph and his brothers, a people who go on to integrate into, and then dominate culturally, the bronze-age Germanic tribes. Interesting aside: the god Odin is not an Indo-European God. Where did he come from? Why are there so many parallels between him and YHWH?

Christ was not here to save all of mankind. He's here specifically for HIS PEOPLE, to regather the lost Israelites, which today means Europeans.

>European art-house films and have good tastes in literature
I've seen you post here before. A few months ago you were advocating for Zoroastrianism and claimed you had divine revelations

None of this convinces me. All you're doing is spouting genealogy bullshit that is not important for metaphysical truths. You don't bother discussing actual metaphysical questions such as the nature of reality, the mind-body problem, the relationship of mind to matter, the problem of universals, the basic human condition, the nature of Time, or whatever. All you do is tell me that "Jews were this". I don't care, they were not sophisticated or enlightened as actual Buddhists who discussed the nature of identity, the nature of suffering, the nature of the ultimate nature of reality, and etc. All of this is more important than your obsession with race. Just because someone is x or y race doesn't mean he or she is, by necessity, in contact with the Truth.

You clearly have not read the New Testament if you think Christianity is about worshipping a nomadic jew.

Once you read it you will find it is about family, nation, and the identification of evil. These are core European values which have lead to the fruits of western civilization.

The fruits of western culutre are the result of Christianity. It has nothing to do with Judaism. Judeo-Christian is a total non sense word. Judaism and Christianity share very little in common. Ask any rabi if they worship the Christian God and their answer will be no.

It is more accurate to call me a Mahayana Buddhist or Ch'an/Zen Buddhist.

It is difficult to explain, but I believe Zurvanism developed in Gandhara and had plenty of Buddhist influence during its formation. We see statuettes of Mihr near Gandharan ruins too. I pick Buddhism because more its texts, practices, and so forth survived. Aesthetically, I would like elements of Zurvanism to be melded in, but I want it to metaphysically to remain Mahayana Buddhism.

I also almost became a Soto Zen Buddhist.

I am interested in impartial inquiry into the epistemological foundations of the religion, and why it does not hold up to modern scrutiny. The metaphysical beliefs of Christianity are found in the Incarnation, Resurrection of Jesus, and the Trinity. None of these are believable.

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>. I pick Buddhism because more its texts, practices, and so forth survived.
And also because it makes the most sense.

think of it also like this, you have this tribe in the middle of nowhere, healthy, surviving, not being evil. Then one day some christian faggot comes along and spreads his mind virus. A problem that didnt exist before, now comes about.

AND DO YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW? ITS LIKE A FUCKING SCRIPT OF MENTAL ADDICTION. Its like telling a young person "hey, do you see that rotting plant over there that produces alcohol, you must harvest it, make more of it and drink it every day or your balls explode!"

thats basically what islam is, what christianity is, what all the other religions but Buddhism are. Your focus is narrowed to the most addictive MENTAL substances as well. OTHER PEOPLE.

The dopamine kick that you get from finding a new love can leave you in a daze of happiness or depression. Many men killedthemselves or were not able to deal with a broken love.

THAT IS BECAUSE THE HORMONE LEVELS GO OFF THE FUCKING CHARTS WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER A LOVE. LIKE a 10 FOLD INCREASE. YOUR BRAIN HAS NO WAY OF DEALING. IT GOES INSANE.

THE EMPATHY PORNISTS USE EXACTLY THE SAME PATHWAYS. EXACTLY THE SAME.

RELIGION IS A MEANS TO MAKE THESE HIGHS AND LOWS CYCLE BETWEEN ONE ANOTHER AT HIGHER INTERVALS.

BUDDHISM DOESNT. BUDDHISM IS NON ENSLAVEMENT AND FREEDOM

You were the one who brought up genealogy:
>I am told that a random nomadic Jew was the son of God and to worship him above all else while paradoxically being told European culture is superior. I mean, if this were so, then why do you worship a Jew, a non-European, as God incarnate?

Have you read the New Testamaent?

Okay, if you want me to be precise, let me say this then:

I am told that a random man was fully God and fully human, his two natures joined in hypostatic union, and he died for our sins. He then crucified by Romans and, afterwards, raised from the dead by God and appeared to witnesses before ascending into heaven to sit at the right hand of God.

This shit is dumb. Compare this to Buddha or Bodhidharma who went through a process of self-realization and then pointed to Buddha nature in all sentient beings, and you see why it's dumb.

You and this nz poster that thought muslims had orchestrated a coordinated attack on Jow Forums worry me more than the average Jow Forums schizo. In fact I have an uneasy suspicion that the nz guy was Tarrant

I have read significant portions, and it's all just a bunch of superstitious nonsense that requires inane faith whereas Buddhist Mahayana texts always point to one's own mind. Any religion that says liberation is found outside of one's mind is not worth two grains of salt. If true enlightenment cannot be found within one's own mind, in the present, then where else you expect to find it? Stories of a random Jew who thought he was the Son of God?

Why do I worry you? I am a sincere Buddhist. You don't see many Buddhists doing terror attacks.

Funny how you act like I am the crazy one after you said this, "You have to back. No one likes you here and you're not european and never will be." That's pretty much what the NZ terrorist would say.

You Zoomer faggots don't see anything outside "muh race". Enlightenment has nothing to do with race. It has to do with one's mind.

you see? you keep talking about movies as if they were art, which is very american of you. the european "high culture", as you say, never created movies which could be called "art". not because of the medium per se, but because of historical reasons. the first relevant film was made in 1920 (the cabinet of dr. caligari). the downfall of europe occourred in 1939. therefore we have 20 years of potential artistic movies. the only artistic movement interested in film-making was dadaism (and partially surrealism) which is counter-art by definition, it aims to chaos, not form, to society, not thought, to mysticism even, not freedom. i know that the cabinet is usually labeled as expressionist, but it doesn't change a thing about its intrinsic nature. film-making just happened to be never employed by western artists as a mean of expression, and that's it.
about literature: if you really are interested in what the word "european" really means, just learn ancient greek and then read fifty, seventy, one hundred times the iliad. then you will be able to go on with other european authors.

>no way around it
The Buddha did not have awakening exclusive to his own. Every sentient being can reach Buddha's level of awakening through cultivating contemplation and wisdom. This is different from Jesus who is exclusively the Son of God that no saint can ever attain the state of.

I dont think your violent but I think you're mentally unstable and are are having serious identity crises

Christianity has very little to do with the metaphysical stories presented in the scripture. Jesus being born a virgin, reborn, turning water into wine has nothing to do with core Christian values.

You are taking a very superficial approach by focusing on the metaphysical aspects instead of focusing on the teachings as it relates to family, nation and the rejection of evil.

I am not here to convert you but to point out where youre making mistakes in your reductive view of Christianity. Good luck in your search for the truth.

There are many good high-art Western film-makers like Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier, and much more. You're just talking out of your ass.
>about literature: if you really are interested in what the word "european" really means, just learn ancient greek and then read fifty, seventy, one hundred times the iliad.
Most Europeans haven't done this; thus, barely any Europeans are truly European, lol. You are an autistic joke.

>I believe the West and Iran should adopt a new religion like Buddhism.

Buddhism is one of the most retarded religions ever.

OP, you are tribalist faggot, how is earthly incarnation of God affecting His divinity? Religion is about worship of God, not race. Jesus might be a Jew, but He exposed greed, hypocrisy and tribalism of jewish leaders and angered him to the point they killed Him. When will Jow Forums understand?

also as it is now, the empathy pornists basically sit on the sidelines, waiting for a moment of "aha, it is my time to shine now that this event has unfolded!"

a whole orchestra was organized on public television, all of those celebs got time to shine, everyone got their share of their empathy, dopamine hits like the little good addicts that they are! What nice creatures they are. So compassionate, so good! Surely their semetics gods will reward them with more dopamine!

that is not to say that one cannot relish in these things from time to time, but now you guys know what these are and how they operate. They operate in a VERY narrow frame of mind, looking for their next hit, like the good little druggies that they are. They dont appreciate the more subtle behaviors of life, just how junkies dont, because they are addicted, looking only towards their next hit.

I am not having serious identity crises. I am probably the most scholarly on here. I know it's very difficult for you to grasp where I am coming from because you are full of hubris.
>Jesus being born a virgin, reborn, turning water into wine has nothing to do with core Christian values.
Most Christians would disagree. A religion gets its heart from its metaphysics.
>the teachings as it relates to family, nation and the rejection of evil.
You focus on Christianity more as a tool for social stability, much like how Chinese use Confucianism. I mean, that's fine, but it removes all spiritual and mystical elements from the religion, distills it into a shadow of its former self, and more. True religions are concerned with transcendence or immanence, self-realization, and coming to terms with mortality.
>reductive view of Christianity.
You take a very liberal approach to Christianity that most devout Christians would call heresy.

I am told that a random man was fully God and fully human, his two natures joined in hypostatic union, and he died for our sins. He then crucified by Romans and, afterwards, raised from the dead by God and appeared to witnesses before ascending into heaven to sit at the right hand of God.

This shit is dumb. Compare this to Buddha or Bodhidharma who went through a process of self-realization and then pointed to Buddha nature in all sentient beings, and you see why it's dumb.

Barely any Europeans are truly European, yet a persian subhuman who's watched Andrei Rublev and jerked off to Breaking the Waves is European