Christianity is one of the major global religions. Centrally, Christianity believes in the abrahamic god and the creation. It derives these claims from its holy scripture, the Bible.

Christianity is the largest and most influential religion in human history, spanning the length from the Roman Empire all the way to the modern times. Being history, I wouldn't usually really care, but since Christianity still affects our daily lives quite significantly I will address its influence here on this page.

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Christianity as a whole is hard to pin down, so anything on this page needs to be treated very carefully. Christians come in many shapes and forms:
Some Christians consider certain things sinful, others don't really mind. Some take the Bible literally, others see it as an interpretative piece from a certain timeframe that they think should be cherry-picked because the times have changed (as if slavery was moral then but is immoral now). In fact, what people believe “is Christianity” is interpreted so differently by each individual that some Christians don't even think they're Christians, they just think they're special.

It should be clear from this that, whatever you say about Christianity, you will probably always find someone who will point out that this actually isn't true and doesn't apply to them. Or they will point out that what you're saying is true, does apply to them, but doesn't apply to every Christian denomination. Christianity is the religion on god's green Earth, so the variety you will find here is so large that the Christians themselves don't know and actual scientists named an entire field of inquiry after. Getting an overview of the Christian religion is an undertaking that will take you back to the beginning of civilization and is an appropriately epic task.

This page does not aim to chronicle Christianity. It is meant to provide an interesting perspective into the kind of concept that I've gotten to learn about that calls itself “Christianity”. That is, Christianity as it is found in my time and in my sphere of knowledge, and a historic Christianity as I know it and how it has shaped the societies, politics and scientific inquiry throughout the ages as I know it. When I talk about Christianity, I will try to talk about the kinds of sentiments that seem to most appropriately describe Christianity as it relates to me. This means that my evaluations of Christianity may disagree with invidual members or even the central scripture itself (though that is a good thing as both the beliefs of members, as well as the positions laid out inside the Bible itself, are self-contradictory messes).

Perhaps the most problematic aspect of Christianity is its propagation of outdated and/or outright hateful and condemnable societal values. In short, the Bible loves to demonize all kinds of things for spurious reasons. At the same time it maintains an unspeakable level of hypocrisy by purporting to support “love” and “kindness” and “forgiveness”, assuming you don't happen to be one of the many people the Bible says you shouldn't be, or assuming you didn't do one of the many things that the Bible says you shouldn't have done.

The Christian church and many of the faithful try really hard to portray the Bible as a message of good things, as a promoter of love and kindness, however I do not believe that the Bible is particularly noteworthy in that regard. See, nobody says that we shouldn't be kind. Even racists believe in kindness, it's just that racists just so happen to decide that black people aren't worth it. Now for the Bible it may not be black people, for the Bible it's gay people. And women. And Jewish people (maybe? I actually don't know about this and would love to have someone enlighten me about whether this is true). Just saying a lot that you are in favor of kindness and whatnot does not automatically make you a good person. It's the fine print that matters, and it seems we have an entire multi-volume novel of fine print on this one.

The point is that the Bible seems to be a pre-utilitarian, unreflected presupposition on what they thought was good or bad without ever actually thinking about ethics and morals in the first place. The 10 commandments, being cited most often here, stand in complete contradiction with the rest of the Bible, and aren't reasoned or explained in any way (not beyond Goddidtit). Apparently not murdering things is good, but you don't get to question this, you better accept it or else.