[quote=premjit;15729]The issue with Christianity is that it’s an organised religion and like all organisations…wants to control its members!!!
In order to do that…the church has to create either FEAR OR GREED OR GUILT in you!!!
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While it might be true to a certain degree, I am sure that there is more to the picture than this. 
First, not all organizations want to control their members. UNICEF is an organization, too. Of course, some minds will find and explain how some dark conspiracy is behind UNICEF, too, but come on, we know that with that attitude one cannot trust anything in this life. And while being careful never hurts, I rather think that trying to see the good in everything is much more suitable for a spiritual aspirant than criticising, and focusing on the bad things. The first approach is being open, requires awarness, patience, courage and right judgement (discernment). The second approach, that of rejection, is remaining shut, and blind to a part of the world we live in. This way, how can one learn, if one is jumping to conclusions without really knowing something, being repelled by the first signs of anything unpleasant ? Because that is what criticism, or focus on the bad side of things results in one’s soul, indifference, and false judgements. Prejudice. The worst person in the world is still a human being. Try to see him/her as yourself. Try to understand what is his/her world. Try to understand the bad things you say he/she does. Noone wants to err deliberatly. Everyone acts along the conditionings they have, and their aims are basically well intentioned, perhaps they somewhere through something slipped into something what is inhuman, or a great error. We know thet as a human beingis able to spiritually rise, there is also the other way. Why he/she has chose that way ? Where he/she did fail ? And I mean, not generally, or theoretically, but in his/her particular case. This means to care for your neighbour, to help him/her. Surely, there are many cases when because of ones’s own limits, or the nature of the faced person, this is impossible. But it is our duty to try, and when there is no effect, we can still think of them in a positive way, because our thoughts are forces shaping the world. If one thonks ill things about another one, the latter will be burdened by the negative effects of thes thoughts. But if one thinks well of somone, that helps that someone in his/her personal struggle.
Second: Today, there are few places in the western world where one is not free to follow any religion. Noone is directly forced to be christian, or any other religion. And there is alos what an early christian father said: One is not born christian, one becomes a christian. If this is true, than many christian s today are not really christians, they are juts christians as a social circumstance. Surely one can say that it is their karma to be so … but I think there is really little differrence betwenn a superficial christian, hindu, or a member of any other religion.
To be true, I refuse the idea of superiority of any religion above another one. A religion is superior only for a certain person, and at a ceirtain stage of his/her journey.
Now, I am christian, not by blind faith, or accepting something against my better judgemnt, or on behalf of my personal freedom, but because it makes sense. If for somone christianity does not make sense, that I can accept, but that does not mean it is meaningless.
Real christian’s are so few, that most of your concerns about chritsianity as organised religion, or actual theology are legit.
This is a yoga forum, so I am uneased a bit because I do not want to create false impressions, even though I know, I cannot avoid them.
But let me say this: if you knew what I know, you’d be christians too. Not churchgoing, crossmaking, Jesus praising christians, but christians by heart as I’d like to see myself. (meaning that I am just a faulty human being like we all are)
And the good knews is that there exists a world view, a cosmogony, what is accesible to our everyday intellect, reason, and what unites the wisdom of the east, and the pragmatism and history of the western world. Studying it, I found it to be an honest and very brave attempt of an initiate to communicate freely and in a comprehensible way to our everyday consaciousness the formerly hidden or unrealized truths of human evolution, world evolution, but never without relating it to our personal lives. I have been given many links to his works, greatly underrated and little known. His teaching is never in conflict with any tradition, rather, through his teachings I found them to be of much greater depth than before, and even though it is in conflict with the main theories of the materialist thories of natural sciences, signs and facts surface every day what justify it, while weakening the rule of the former.
So, by all means, seek, search, and accept only what you can accept as true, as Lord Buddha said. I did that, and I found that the main teachings of christianity are true. Everyone has the right to question them, but do not expect a simple answer. The wordlk and the human being is not simple. It is complex. The main strenght of yoga philospohy, that it speaks about man and the worlds in one liners, it is also it’s weakness. A pragmatic practice and guided meditation can make up for this, but those times have passed. Today, man’s (as human being, not as male) intelligence, sense of individuality, need for freedom make possible a mental comprehension of the greater picture, what is shockingly different of that of materialist science. But why tell this … find it out yourself. Otherwise you might have the impression that I want to stuff you with some creaionist stupidity, or some other aberration you witnessed among those whom you call christians, as God knows there are many.
Think, feel, will as free, independent human beings.
And I think it is a key difference between Christianity and other faiths.