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Submitted by: Jenny
Email address: badb_catha_nimue@yahoo.com
Subject: Some Musings On Christianity

As an A level Theology student, most people assume I am a fervent, practising Christian. This as anyone reading this will realise is not entirely true. One dead give away is the slightly sarcastic previous sentence, another is the fact that I am on a web page littered with references to Marilyn Manson and Satanism, another hint is of course my nickname which happens to be 'Witch'. In fact I hate Christianity passionately, and the 'Church' in particular. For reasons why, ask Freud. No, really I find it an hypocritical mass of self-righteous bigotry that has plagued the human race for millennia. As we reach the second millennium since one man's death, we still treat it as though it's the worst atrocity in the history of mankind. Tragic - yes, senseless - yes, although many would disagree with me there on the grounds that they had nothing left to justify their existence other than that....painful and terrible, certainly, I would be pretty pissed off if it happened to me, and many would wince at the telling. However, as a desensitised member of the 'next generation' in our austere 'Cool Britannia', I have the pleasure to say that everyone I know has witnessed something worse. Not firsthand, but indisputable evidence nonetheless. We see it all the time, all around us. Yet the great institution of Christianity turns a blind eye, fixes it's eyes on the fact that they still worship a man who died 2000 years ago, and virtuously ignore any country that can claim worse atrocities. Call me cynical, but I became disillusioned with this religion at the age of, oooh', 11? I am now nearly 17 (aaah') yet I still find the things I was taught as a child fascinating, I dispute them from the ground of a believer and a non-believer, which tends to give the impression of schizophrenia, but hey'! Was Jesus sane?! I find it fascinating that little children are still told that to be different is to be wrong in the eye's of a gentle and forgiving God, that to make a mistake is to burn in Dante's hell for eternity, and at best, if you live life like a 'Christian' and be a Christian, then you might just face a few hundred years of purgatory. It's rather appropriate that Jesus is portrayed as a shepherd leading his sheep, it has a certain ironic justice. From someone who was always different. Witch.</plaintext> tag, That simple.