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[foolsguinea]

I found this on a message board, by user "Shagnasty":

I am not especially religious. I am a casual Episcopalian which is about as bland as it gets. We treat Christianity as a social club of values. I have seen the dark side of Christianity though in willfully ignorant people and I do not approve. The New Testament is remarkably bland and gives little to no credibly to many of the things some Christian sects hold as core mythology. I don't think most of them ever read the Bible including the ones that proclaim themselves biblical fundamentalists. The level of ignorance is astounding given that they just have one source book to work with for their entire lives.

Can you imagine someone reading the whole Harry Potter series and then giving sermons and whole plotlines based on it for characters that never existed in the original work? It is the same thing.

Almost everything that is used as mythology or imagery in certain Christian denominations is from roughly a thousand years or more after Christianity was founded give or take a few hundred years.

Satan doesn't exist in the Bible at all in the way that is commonly portrayed.
Angels do not either nor does hell.
Likewise demons do not.

If you read the source work, it is remarkable how many gratuitousness addons were made over time and many people accept them now as much as the original texts simply because several hundred years old is the same as 2000+ in most people's minds because they have no concept of long time periods.

If your son can read internet articles, let him see the following cracked.com article. They don't give anything new. The basic point is a bunch of people hijacked the Christian logo, piled on a whole heaping pile of shit, and tried to make it the one true way even though it is completely false even under their own standards of biblical fundamentalism.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18757_5-things-you-wont-believe-arent-in-bible.html