Extinguishing the Christian Myth

What is the Christian Myth?

There are many aspects and variations of the Christian Myth, but two of the most important tenets of Christian belief are one, Jesus Christ died and was brought back to life by the will of his heavenly Father and two, Jesus Christ is set to return some time in the future, incredibly coming down from the sky to establish, with his believers, a place known simply as paradise. These two aspects of the Christian myth are the cornerstone of their faith, if you believe in Christianity, this is what you are expected to subscribe to.

Many Christians today refuse to subscribe to many other myths of Christianity, including the ones that are found in the Old Testament; for example, that the world was created in six days or that the world is merely five or six thousand years old. These free thinking Christians, perhaps in the light of carbon dating, geology, biology and geography have chosen to divorce their Christian beliefs from the stories of Genesis, but a Christian will never, can never, refuse to believe in the resurrection and return of Jesus Christ.

Non-Believing ‘Christians’

What about the ‘Christians’ that don’t believe in the resurrection and the return of Jesus Christ? First and foremost, their beliefs are rejected by the entire Christian community; they are generally labeled as frauds or even worse New-Age Christians. Quite simply they are not Christians, without the resurrection and the return of Jesus Christ the Christian myth dies, it merely becomes another philosophy, with plenty of good and bad points, some nice stories and enduring parables, all boxed up with a pleasant self-sacrificing figurehead to aspire to.

Is It Necessary to Extinguish the Christian Myth?

Extinguishing the Christian Myth is totally unnecessary and entirely voluntary, each person whether they know it or not, is a sovereign being and therefore entitled to believe whatever they wish. Notwithstanding this, if the world was able to successfully extinguish the Christian myth, the world would not necessarily be a better place but it would certainly be a more mature and evolved place.

Why Should We Extinguish the Christian Myth?

The Christian myth is an embarrassing legacy of a time when superstition and the Church ruled the world, when equality and education was of little importance, when science was scorned upon, and when poverty and malnutrition was viewed as an admirable disposition. When superstition and the power of the Church started to decline during The Enlightenment, people in the world started to look beyond their local Priest for spiritual guidance, and started to scrutinize the adopted myths that society had long held on to.

The Christian myth, in today’s liberating light filled day, a day where science continues to explain so many great mysteries, where children in so many countries enjoy the benefits of a free education, where so many women now have freedom of choice, where so many men and women of the world enjoy so many every day freedoms; men and women are now entitled to choose between reality and the delusion of the Christian myth. A man and a woman can now confidently state, without fear of prosecution or prejudice that a human is not capable of resurrection. Similarly, that a man is not capable of flying down from the sky or heavens to impart some type of heavenly justice.

Christians will tell you that Jesus Christ is no ordinary man, he is God’s son and therefore capable of a supernatural resurrection and an even more supernatural heavenly return. And this is the great and popular delusion of Christianity. The aforementioned proposal is laughable and should be confined to children’s fairy tale books or even Hollywood studios, but the shear number of people that believe in this myth, apparently two billion people at the moment, ensures its unremitting existence.

Adults Acting Like Chidlren

When an independent human being makes their way from childhood to adulthood, we receive invitations to relinquish long-held presumptions about the world, some of the most regrettable ones are fairy tales. Giving up on fantasies such as Santa Claus and the tooth fairy can be a very disappointing thud back to earth for a growing child, giving up innocent childish ideals can also be very difficult for the maturing young adult and learning personal responsibility can be a lifelong adventure for so many adults, yet each adult has a deep-down desire to grow and evolve as a human being. However for so many adults, this desire is not strong enough to reject the Christian myth of Jesus Christ.

What Do We Have To Gain?

By rejecting the age old Christian Myth, we will in so many ways be saying yes to humanity, humanity’s today and humanity’s future. How can I be so sure of this? Because the Christian Myth puts everything on hold, including life and living. When man and woman are merely participating in a test for some future paradise, when the world is viewed as a mere testing ground to separate Christ’s supplicants from unbelievers, the world gets put on hold. Our inherent need for progress is replaced with cautionary fear, the joy and pleasure of life is replaced with sin and guilt, life and the world become a secondary concern and we tend to treat it as such.

It’s not easy to reject something that is so popular, so simple and seemingly rewarding, but as a human being you will benefit in so many ways. I’m not saying that there is nothing on the other side of death, all I am saying is that there is no evidence of it to warrant worrying about it, and that no story about a man who has come back to life and is planning on returning convinces me otherwise. This is just one of the invitations that you are destined to receive as an adult human being, I hope that you treat it with the same lucid and discerning attitude that you used when you decided to stop believing in Santa Claus.