I think I'm beginning to see the beauty in Christianity.

[sinkingfeeling]

It's like a buffet. You can pick just those god-given commandments, moral codes, and acts that fit your own life and ignore all the rest. You can even decide to whom those codes and commandments apply and to whom they don't. Like adultery and lying. If you're into either, it can be just fine to break the Ten Commandments, but you're free to condemn gays to hell. You can demand impeachment for some office holders who dally with young women, and elect another to office.

[Warpy]

1. Yes, it allows you to travel through life

in a haze of self righteousness as you vigorously condemn all the sins you're never really that tempted to commit.

Bonus points if somebody with a pompadour has "saved" you, meaning your ticket to heaven is punched as long as you keep giving lip service to Jebus, no matter how many commandments you shatter before you die.

[trotsky]

2. Every Christian - liberal, conservative, and everyone in between - picks their own rules.

And then molds their god in their own image. As proof of that, we can note that no one believes in a god that has different opinions than they do.

[progressoid]

3. And if you pick the right church, you can get good coffee and donuts on Sunday.

[libodem]

4. Even, 'thou shalt not kill'

Is conditional. Nothing is sacred.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. VERY conditional!

Their god orders it in several places, seems to look the other way much of the time.

[dimbear]

6. It's ironic, because in the only recorded instance of JC ordering a meal, he asks for just one

dish.

It needs lots and lots of interpretation.

[ScottLand]

7. Christianity has always been a good make-it-up-as-you-go religion.

There's no knowledge test for getting in.