Quote Originally Posted by Godsrock37
I think Christianity largely agrees here. God presents an invitation, which can be rejected. We're all in sin by nature, God gave us a way out, we just have to take it. Thats the core of Christianity. You'll have to take responsibility for your actions, no matter what, but throught Christ we find someone who already took responsibility for us. So it's a choice, would you like to pay for choosing to be without God (sin) or would you like to let the scapegoat do it for you. let me know if this analogy is off.
Personally, I could never accept the concept of original sin. I was born/raised Catholic, served on the alter for 2 years, and even confirmed. A great deal of the Catholic church never made sense to me. The whole religion seems to be nothing other than accepting your worthlessness and incapability and subjugating yourself to the whim of someone else.

My rejection of religion is a concious logical choice, not simply because I find the evidence for it inconclusive, but the entire philosophy behind just about all of them are abhorent. The only moral benefits of these religions are self-evident of any society already. Civilizations long before the advent of monothiesm had morals of, Murder, Theft, and Lying to be wrong. This is because societal morals are utilitarian.

Monothiesm leaves God devoid of any accountability or responsibility. If I were able to prevent some loss of life or injustice of another, I would be expected to aid it especially if it took no more than a simple whim to save. If I were to condemn everyone to eternal damnation and suffering simply for disagreeing with me even if they had harmed no one, I would be Malevolence incarnate. God is infalible to every and all such crimes.

If I, a lowly mortal can fathom this, how can a supreme being not? I never even asked to be born. How cruel is it to subjugate someone to this kind of rigor and test without consent to satiate one's own boredom? Better yet, if I opt out and kill myself, I'm only asurring my suffering. This is not kind, holy, or even fair if you ask me.

To me, the only monothiestic religions that make sense are Jewish people, and Doomsday Chrisitans. Judaism is steeped in crazy superstition that defy logic, and Doomsday Christians just seem looney--but at least both of them are consistent in their philosophies and practices. They're beyond logic or reason, which is ultimately the root of religion. Anything else is simply a perversion and gives us long debates like this one.