“It is so sad that Satan has injected the thoughts into people's minds that they cannot have a personal relationship with God”
Satan?
It’s the early Christain Church that hunted down and destroyed all the Gnostic gospels, just so they could maintain the need for an intercessor.
Where would the church be without that business model that we need THEM to get to HIM?
“and that somehow the people that serve God are "brainwashed" into doing so.”
Well, everyone in my church was raised to the faith from birth, so what the fuck else would you call it? Deep immersion, daily renforcement, the occassional spot check and purity examination…
“When you feel love and have a relationship with someone, do you consider yourself brainwashed?”
More to the point, if you ARE brainwashed, would you consider yourself brainwashed?
“Probably not, so it is with people that have allowed Christ to live inside them.”
Meh.
When I had the Christ inside me, it was indistinguishable from having Zeus inside me.
“ When Christ lives inside you you have a love and a relationship with him.”
Which doesn’t change if he doesn’t actually exist, though. It’s just you being infatuated.
“That relationship is not determined by a minister or a church, its within. I love Jesus, he talks to me and we have a thing going on.”
That’s tacky…