再谈宗教
中共惧怕宗教，我从小生活在一个主张无神论的专制国家，所以对宗教一直抱有怀疑的态度。来到美国以后，面对这个充满宗教味道的国家，我不得不开始涉及神的领域。美国最流行的教是基督教和天主教，所以，我和很多神职人员打交道。
对于很多中国大陆的宗教人士来说，美国是一个避难的天堂，虽然有很多人戴着宗教的帽子来到美国寻求居留权，可是也有人带着向往神的信心。对于神的态度，我是不相信的。我昨天和一个牧师聊天，他问我：“为什么你认为中国需要更多的宗教自由？既然你认为宗教有害。”
我从来没有说过宗教有害，我只是不相信宗教。宗教（除邪教以外）的教理一般都是教人行善的，宗教是一个工具，他可以控制人的思想，既然他可以控制人的思想，他就可以教导人们行善。昨天我读到《圣经》中St. Paul的一封信，让我深受感动。尤其是这段：
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
如果每个人都可以遵循这封信，我们这个世界可以成为一个完美的天堂。我见到的神职人员都很善良，不断的给别人提供帮助。我问他们不会觉得吃亏了吗？帮别人又不收钱？他们说：“我们信的神不同，你信的神是钱，我信的神是耶稣。”如果每个人都可以信耶稣，我相信这个世界可以成为马克思描写的共产主义社会。有人说：“我向来都认为宗教是依靠糊弄傻逼Fans得到盲目的支持而壮大起来的组织。”如果信徒真的是被宗教糊弄的傻逼，但是他们可以生活在一个自我陶醉的天堂里，而这个看起来傻逼的天堂是每个人都向往的，尤其是马克思。
但不是每个人都可以信教，所以这个天堂是不可以建造的。我相信人的本性是丑恶的，文明只是深藏的野蛮。宗教只是一个把自私转化为双赢的方法。我们每做一件事，都是想获得某一样事情。牧师帮别人，只是为了奉行神的旨意，最后可以获得救赎。牧师为了获得救赎，所以帮助他人。这是一个双赢的自私。如果一个人抱有着私心而信神，他/她又怎么能无私地去爱别人？等他/她真的变得无私以后，或许他/她也不会信神了吧？
我不相信宗教，宗教只是美好的真理披着神话。我总相信这个世界上有别的双赢方法来转化自私。宗教只是其中之一。我不相信世界上只有被愚弄后才会获得善良，但是，如果信徒们愿意被愚弄，生活在自我陶醉的天堂里，他们有这个权利。因此，我认为中国需要更多的宗教自由。
最后跟信徒们说一句话：如果你们愿意生活在自我陶醉的天堂里，那是件好事，因为毛泽东曾经想把中国打造成这样的天堂而牺牲了几千万人。
September 15th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
“牧师为了获得救赎，所以帮助他人。”
希望不明白的事情你不要乱说，牧师帮助别人和他是否能被救赎没有任何关系。
正好相反，被救赎是一个成为牧师的必要条件。牧师帮助人，是为了荣耀上帝，是为了让别人得到救赎。
为了被救赎而去传福音的基督徒，他一定不是真正得救的基督徒。
别的我不想多说，前几次和你说得够多了～！
作评论不可以主观臆断，至少要多查点资料。
September 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Okay，就当牧师帮别人是为了荣耀上帝，这还不是一样？牧师是为了某样事物所以才帮助别人的。
September 16th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Since you come from a communist country, you think like a communist and you are becoming the one you dislike. Communist does not like truth and is more interested in propaganda and I believe that is what you are doing. Communist likes to twist the truth so that it fits his ideology and by your critique of Christianity, you are doing exactly the same thing. You don’t know much about the Bible and yet you write things as if you know it. I may be wrong in saying your god is Money….instead, I think your god may be propaganda itself and communism is still very much in your blood. You are enjoying yourself in the paradise of propaganda and the religion of atheism. See what Mao has done? I am sure you know it. Mao is still your father who has made you in his image. If you don’t like Mao, don’t continue to embrace his ideology while you have a chance to know something better.
Only Jesus Christ and His Gospel can rescue you and free you from the consequences of communism and propaganda.
September 16th, 2007 at 5:53 am
Since you come from a communist country, you have carried with you its baggages. You are living in the paradise of propaganda and partial understanding. It is unfair to say your god is money for your gods are really propaganda and atheism. You enjoy writing and you have mesmerized by your own ideologies and displays your ignorance of Christianity and the Bible. Your thinking and your suspicion about religion are more or less still controlled by your background that you have come to love and hate at the same time. Mao continues to be your father who has made you in his image. He has taught you how to do propaganda, to fit the Christian faith into a Marxist mold, and to selectively write/describe the Christian faith in order to prove that he is correct. So, it seems that you are enjoying yourself in Mao’s paradise still, but we all know that is not a good place to be…as you have told us.
Therefore, don’t continue to live in his paradise, repent, and come to know the Truth, who is Jesus Christ the Lord who is able to give you a good understanding of the world. (1 Corinthians 2:11-14)
September 19th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
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September 19th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
To M: All the Gods are created by human. Please don’t compare whose God are better. You can believe your God, and other people can believe their God. Please don’t say your God’s idea is correct and better, and other people’s Gods are not correct. If you believe Jesus Christ can give you a good understanding and let you know the Truth, that is only your believe. Islam and Buddhism also have their idea and truth. Communist also has their own truth. Communist country is no good? Go to see China. China can give you a better answer!!! Believe or not, now new China is a beautiful country.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:44 am
Elegance, I think you must be talking about the beauty of China the adopted Chinese girls could learn after they grew up in foreign countries. Or…Are you talking about the beauty Christians or other “cults” can learn in the Chinese prisons? Or…Are you talking about the beauty of the floor the unemployed can appreciate in their free time? Actually, I would believe I should not compare (You are absolutely right!) for the Communists have their own truth that I can’t comprehend, e.g. their view(s) on investment and money…. Since I am not too smart, I guess this is why I find the Truth according to Jesus Christ to be more attractive, it is easier for me to accept. It is easier to believe in Jesus Christ than to believe in all those gods created by man.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:27 am
是的，信仰不是说服。
如果不是向内省察自己的软弱和罪，不会信仰基督教的。
真理不是越辩越明，大多数时候我们鸡同鸭讲。
你现在看圣经，多好:)