{"id":547,"date":"2013-04-02T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=547"},"modified":"2013-04-02T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:52:34","slug":"the-world-doesnt-revolve-around-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2013\/04\/02\/the-world-doesnt-revolve-around-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Doesn\u2019t Revolve Around Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Google put up a picture of\u00a0Cesar Chavez on their main search engine page. Apparently, a lot of Christians were extremely offended by this. They weren\u2019t offended because of his politics or activism or because they just didn\u2019t like the guy. No, they were offended because it was Easter and Google didn\u2019t give a shout-out to Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to be the one to tell this to Christians, but the world doesn\u2019t revolve around you! If you think talking about something other than the holiday that you stole from the pagans is an insult to your religion, get over yourself! Not everything is about you. Believe it or not, there are people who are not Christians and there are even Christians who have other priorities aside from the commercialized pagan holiday that Christianity stole to win converts.<\/p>\n<p>While we are on the subject of the world not being about Christians, let\u2019s talk about marriage for a moment. I constantly hear from Christians that God created the institution of marriage to be between one man and one woman. Aside from the fact that very righteous leaders in the Bible had hundreds of wives and concubines, Christians have to start to realize that there are people in the world who don\u2019t give a fuck about what your religion said about marriage. Christianity does not now nor have they ever had the monopoly of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, people got married long before the alleged time of Jesus. In fact, people get married in many cultures that had never even heard of the Hebrew god Yahweh. What makes Christians think that they have the right to dictate what Buddhists, Hindus, or atheists can do? If a Christian doesn\u2019t believe in gay marriage, that\u2019s great; he can marry Michelle Bachmann.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Christians have no right to dictate how anyone else should live their lives in any way at all. If you believe in abstinence only, have at it. But don\u2019t expect us to stop teaching real sex education in schools because you believe the world revolved around you\u2019re ancient superstitions. If it wasn\u2019t for science, you wouldn\u2019t even know that the world revolves at all. Remember, the Bible says that Jesus saw all four corners of the earth. I\u2019ve looked at the globe and I can\u2019t find any corners, let alone four of them.<\/p>\n<p>If you really want to pretend to be humble like Jesus, you have to stop believing that everything is all about you. That is the exact opposite of humbleness. It is literally self-centered! Do you know how I know that? 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Apparently, a lot of Christians were extremely offended by this. They weren\u2019t offended because of the now dead Venezuelan leader\u2019s policies or because they just didn\u2019t like the guy. No, they were offended because it was Easter and Google didn\u2019t give a shout-out to Jesus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,214],"tags":[38,1060,50,1063,1099,75,526,83,438,525],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-gay-rights","tag-atheism","tag-bible","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-easter","tag-google","tag-hugo-chavez","tag-jesus","tag-marriage","tag-yahweh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}