In my honest opinion, I think that at this stage of human development, Christinanity and all religions are a blight upon our intellectual integrity.

Like everything, it has it’s good parts and it has it’s bad parts, and it would be folly to reject it outright or follow it blindly.

Bad, yes, put to evil purposes, yes.
A lie is bad,
lies built on lies built on lies and you have the catholic church

Belief in a higher being isn’t a problem for me - all people believe in something whether it themselves or the externalizations. Organized religion is where the problem starts. You get this tribalism where a group believes they are right and everyone else is wrong and then try to force their beliefs on everyone else. The teachings of Jesus create a solid foundation on how a person can live a good life - nothing wrong with that. It’s just been perverted and manipulated to meet a particular person’s agenda.

Everyone should be free to their own beliefs as long as they are not harmful to others.

People can believe what they want to believe, but, as long as it's not imposed or forced on other people

People fear the unknown, particularly death. They cling to religious belief to circumvent their fear. Many "born-again" Christians feel a need to save their non Christian family members and acquaintances. When they get started, one has to listen to them but they don't have to listen to you. What you say is unimportant because they feel they know the truth, and you do not.

Christianity has one redeeming feature. Every 25th of December, the Christians are relatively nice to each other!

Yes, bad, evil, invented to manipulate people and suppress women

The most damaging things about Christianity in my opinion are:

Firstly the way in which in the evangelical world, it's so much a "me" thing, "my personal relationship with Jesus" and so forth. This causes so much tunnel vision about the plight of others -something the bible itself is not silent about - and makes it the badge of right-wing politicians keen to feather their own nests.

Secondly, making "sins" out of things which don't affect anyone else negatively is wrong. I have no right to tell anyone what other consenting adult they should or shouldn't have whatever kind of sex with. I have no right to tell a woman whether or not she should carry a to term. But Christians, especially political ones, think that they can apply their rules (which they invariably break themselves when it suits them) to everyone else including those who do not share their opinions.

Thirdly, perhaps most importantly, I think the whole concept of vicarious redemption is obnoxious. If you owe me a sum of , you can't pay, but your uncle hands me the that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned. But the same doesn't apply to crimes. If you rape and murder my child, I will not be happy about your uncle taking the punishment, you should, however sorry you were. I would be even less happy if your uncle simultaneously took the punishment for crimes committed against other people which let the perpetrators get away. Yet that in principle is what happens all the time in Christianity.

Oh yes and the whole sin thing and my disgrace is supposed to flow my 0-great grandmother having a chat with a snake - who incidentally was right (about not dying) where was wrong. What kind of justice is that supposed to be?

ANd if I don't believe all that crap I get a free ticket to the -running brimstone barbie.

"Good news"

If you look back in history and even in modern day nearly all wars were/are religious based. If there were no religions wouldn't the world be a peaceful place? Think John Lennon's song "Imagine".

The Bible was a book written as a means of control. Make no mistake, the people who wrote it also had/have their religion, but the lesser people of this world are not welcome to share it.

As such, Christianity in my opinion is a very bad thing, nothing more than a vector for slavery.

As with all things, an idea whether its religious or not, can be manipulated by bad people. I have met some very dedicated christians who really believe in what they are doing and are genuinely nice people...but there are so many that cherry pick the doctrine to serve their own purposes. Through history bad people have used this religion to do some really bad things...and today those kind of things are still occuring. When you use religion as your manipulation device, you are really controlling people on a deep level .

Man creates. Man destroys. Man created religion. An apocalyspe is predicted in many religions yes? Why strive when the end game designates otherwise?

Yes, Christianity is bad, its practitioners can be evil, their goals are despicable.

More people kill and are killed because of religions which only proves they are all full of crap

Upon second thought... I’d rather hump my neighbor as long as she is willing than kill her it’s lots more fun and a damnsite more pleasant

Yes faiths are evil THE OPPOSITE OF live. ..xians are bribing all with alleged heaven post mortem and making real hell of life on earth with theocracy creationism fascism of illegal war crime profiteering polluter oil poisoning of entire planet. ...all religions are WRONG

it's delusional of course. sometimes it causes its practitioners to become nasty, even violent.

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Christianity, and pretty much all religions, is about controlling people. In order for the few to control the many you need some sort of superstition to exert oversite. Then you call all good fortune a reward and and all bad fortune punishment. It is not evil so much as primitive by nature, and this very nature has slowed progress by centuries.

Evil comes into play when you have it justify actions that are immoral while claiming to be the only true measure of morality. Slavery, misogyny, genocide, infanticide, subjugation, and much more are accepted if not encouraged while submission to authority is the underlying principle throughout. To be clear the evil requires human action as a result of interpretation. Otherwise it is no more evil than Greek Mythology or being a hardcore football fan.

Two quotes that help explain:

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
― Steven Weinberg

“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

I think it and all religions are false and we are never served by believing lies.

The hate they spread around the world is bad.

Christianity has ended up as total hypocrisy. thou shall not kill..., do unto others... , love thy neighbor as thyself... etc.

In and of itself, pre-diddled with... I think it might have been very good. Unfortunately the ruling class seems to like twisting anything and everything to their own desires to control the masses and keep their power. People make and break religions.

Throw in a lack of understanding of various histories, language barriers and bad translations, and basic reading comprehension issues... most religions don't really stand much of a chance.

There are many books and sections in the bible that are a great read. The gospels especially are excellent literate. Christianity, like all religions can have a tremendous uplifting and beneficial social impact on their societies. Like guns its not the item that's the problem its how the item is used.

I think most of Christianity's values are terrible: blind obedience, subjugation of women and children, exploitation of the Earth, aggressive proselytizing and eradication of non-believers. The world would be much better off without it. Bertrand Russell's "Why I am Not a Christian" makes the case very well.