My wife showed me this video (Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAhDGYlpqY) last night. My brother posted the link to it on Facebook. Now, that was a bit of a surprise to me I have to admit, since I didn’t realise my brother was a hard-core Jesusianismist. Perhaps it was wishful thinking that he was, at the very least, agnostic. Not, it seems. I have tried to remember how it is that I came to have the incorrect impression of him and it’s quite strange really since we’ve spoken about religion a number of times. He never said he was a Jesusianismist. He never took issue with my (rampant, unrestrained) anti-theism.
Anyway, I watched the video, I had many issues, I toyed with writing a post about it. Then I saw The Amazing Atheist (bless his brilliant banana loving ass) had already made a video that takes it apart, in style. So I now happily post it here since it says just about everything that needs to be said.
Take it away TJ:
Yea. Christians doing what Christians do: bend ‘your beliefs’ until they fit what you want to believe. The entire video is empty, contradictory and filled with marketing speak. It’s a sales job that sells nothing new. It’s controversy stirring where there is none. It is par for the course as far as Christians are concerned.
On top of that, it’s not new either, I’ve blogged on that particular statement of idiocy before: I hate religion but love I god. Silly Christians are silly.
If it wasn’t for the stupid subject, the poem and video would have been quite nice though. Quite nice.
Yep…the video sums up the lazy thinking of religious people. I have noticed many who are claiming this distinction between Jesus and religion, that the two are different and that having a ‘personal relationship’ with jesus is somehow the correct interpretation of Christianity??!! I am not sure if this is a recent change, but it does feel that that people of faith are re-inventing their beliefs in this age……trying to rebrand it as meaningful in the 21st century. Maybe this is a reflection of the ‘self entitlement’ culture we now live in and people need to have this ‘me thing’ with ‘my saviour Jesus’ relationship….who is personally going to save me, me, me and oh…me again!! Not that nasty religious thing……that has nothing to do with Jesus……hmm….a bit of selective thinking going on me thinks!!!!
I think a LOT of selective thinking is going on! And, I think you’re spot on, people are re-inventing their ‘beliefs’ just like they’ve always done. They realise the things that they hold a dear are no longer applicable so they change it. Conveniently.