Powerful note. I strongly agree, and I have tried making this point to many. I believe a true Follow of Christ will understand this.

What is a "christian" ?

A Christian should be someone who has at least bothered to read the New Testament without having others interpret it for them. To me, it’s inconceivable to read the Bible and believe in the Catholic Church as an institution or in the state. And I’m certainly not a typical believer; my opinion offends both believers and non-believers alike. I don’t even know if I believe in God, but I believe in my culture, which has been shaped by Christianity, and I believe that the New Testament is a moral code that teaches nothing wrong.

Ask yourself this: Why we know what we know?

Don't you think that each one of us is god? We are the expression of our-self... Let's make it simple: using a diagram:

The word "believe" is not synonym with truth.

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We can consider it just as a personal opinion. Why would I have to read a book written by someone I don't know personally, so I could understand in what I should "believe"? Is not that some kind of form of brainwashing? Do I have personal knowledge of those events talking about in those books? No. So why should I follow blindly everything is written in those books?

It’s very difficult to have those discussions from my perspective because, as I’ve said, I’m not a “typical” Christian… I don’t believe in turning the other cheek; I only believe in natural law. I don’t even know if I believe in God—my idea of God is simply the notion that the physical world is too perfect to have arisen by chance. I don’t believe in institutions; I don’t believe in the authority of one person over another. I am simply a Christian because it is part of my cultural identity, and I respect my past, my ancestors, and the traditions I was raised with—but at the same time, I respect the figure of Jesus because he is an inspiration to me. And in a chaotic world like the one we live in, I believe that Jesus’ teachings are positive regardless of who wrote them, whether someone considers him the Son of God or not, or whether Jesus Christ existed or not, because they are simply a moral code in the same way that the Ten Commandments or natural law are.

And of course, that doesn’t mean I agree with the Ten Commandments or with everything in the New Testament, nor does it mean that the law, conscience, or anyone else dictates my beliefs.

YOU are God.... nobody else is. Thinking that you are a "chrisitian" or a "muslim" or whatever, is just an induced culture from your people around you. That's why I asked: Why we know what we know? It''s because somebody else told us that is "like that" and we never question it. We just take it for granted as "the truth".

You cannot! Or Jesus Christ is your only GOD or the state is your only God, you cannot be loyal to both. All socialists know this, that why socialism persecutes Christian’s.

If we are gods, then we are changing the definition of God. You aren’t all-knowing, all-good, all-powerful etc. so you’re not God by any historical definition. You’re a human. And human is still pretty cool (at least by the Christian conception) because you can create, make moral decisions, live eternally in the future and more. Human is still pretty cool.

The Jews did not kill Jesus. The Romans did. The Romans condemned him, crucified him. We should not put all Jews in the same pot. And then, as now, ordinary people were stupid. Many but stupid or stupid but many. They were easily manipulated by the few and smart. The priests. The priests saw in Jesus a danger. We are talking about the Jewish priests. Few but smart. Many people read the Bible but so few understand it...Few people ask themselves: Why does the New Testament have only four Gospels? We are already entering another historical discussion...