Probably intending to criticize those annoying, hyper-enthusiastic preachers who strain so diligently to be your best friend — Is everything ‘awesome’? Really? — the Babylon Bee inadvertently upholds a criticism I’ve made of Christian teaching for years: If you don’t accept Original Sin, if you don’t believe you were born no damn good and deserving eternal punishment, Christianity has nothing on offer.
Woman Unsure Why She Needs Jesus After Preacher Spends 30 Minutes Telling Her How Amazing She Is https://t.co/9FoIBf8w1r pic.twitter.com/saFunPLHFj
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 5, 2017
Wilson, who hasn’t attended church since she was a child, further reported she was “a little hurt” that the pastor would segue into an invitation to add Jesus to her life.
“It really undermined my confidence in myself,” she said, adding she wouldn’t be back anytime soon.
Hear this, Ms. Wilson: Your pastor needs for you to be insecure; his livelihood requires the annihilation of your self-confidence. If you don’t believe you’re no damn good, he’s got nothing on offer.
You can deny-deny-deny, you can stamp your feet and howl that it isn’t so — but there is no escaping it: Christianity is degrading at the root, and the pastor’s well-being relies on his ability to degrade you and then feed on you. Enough. It is time, time past, that we all be done once for all with those predators.