What is "Christian brainwashing" to you?

Question

What kind of brainwashing do you think are done that's why Christians believe what they believe?

Answer 1

The teachings of the Church contradict the teachings of Jesus (pbuh) and that is the cause of the confusion.

If a sincere christian who wants to follow Jesus (peace be upon him), asks priests about trinity, the answer that he gets is "It is a Mystery, not explained by Jesus (pbuh) clearly", at that time again those forget that Jesus (pbuh) said,

"I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet, and in secret I have said nothing" (John 18:20 (NKJ)).

If trinity is confusing enough to be called a mystery, it cannot be from God. Because:

"God is not a God of confusion."—1 Corinthians 14:33, Revised Standard Version (RS).

There was no mystery in the message of Jesus (pbuh), nothing secret. Will you accept the priests' so called "mystery of trinity" and forget clear commandments of Jesus (pbuh)?

Jesus (pbuh) clearly said:

A) Mark 12:29: "the Lord our God, the lord is One".

B) Metthew: 26:39: "He went a little farther and fell on His face and prayed" (Following Jesus (pbuh) way is following what he did). Jesus (pbuh) prayed to one God

C) Matthew 4:10 "You shall worship the Lord, your God, and him only you shall serve"

D) John 5:19: "Most truly I say to you, the son cannot do a single thing of his own initiative but only what he beholds the father doing."

E) Matthew 19:17. "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."

F) John 7:16  Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me

G) Revelation 22:9 (King James Version):  "Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God."

H) Matthew 27:46:  "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" -- which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

(I) Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

John 8:54

The trinity is a doctrine from about the year 325 AD, It has its roots in polytheism, It is not in the bible unless you really, really stretch it to fit.

Jesus didn't have to hide the concept of trinity if it were the basis of salvation. He otherwise would have said very clearly that God is one in three, and I am God, worship me. Try to find these words in Bible and you can't.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia - 1967, VOL. XIV, PAGE 299:

The formulation "one God in three Persons" was not solidly established, certainly not fully assimilated into Christian life and its profession of faith, PRIOR TO THE END OF THE 4TH CENTURY. But it is precisely this formulation that first claimed to title "The Trinitarian Dogma. AMONG THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS, THERE HAD BEEN NOTHING EVEN REMOTELY APPROACHING SUCH A MENTALITY OR PERSPECTIVE.

You should not accept the word “son” literally . Word "son" was used in bible for general human beings and other prophets also. "we all are the children of father in heavens" indicates that word "son" was used in different meaning of love and care.

Mathew: 5:9. "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God.”

Jesus , Moses, Mohammad (peace be upon them), they all worshiped the same God, the God of Ibrahim (pbuh). All prophets taught "surrendering one's will to God" that is the meaning of word "Islam".

JAMES 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

There was just not one holy book sent by God on earth through His messengers. The last testiment "Quran" had to be there  from the same source, with many similarities, but correcting mistakes in earlier ones made by humans.

Muslims love Jesus (pbuh), they believe in his miraculous birth with the will of God without a father or sexual act (the way Adam was born without a mother and father), , they believe in miracles that Jesus (pbuh) performed with permission of God, muslims faith demands them to believe Jesus (pbuh) was a great prophet of God and belief in the original message of Jesus (pbuh) the massaya.

Qur’an, revealed to the Prophet Muhammed (an illiterate person, who didn't know how to read or write) some 600 years after Jesus (pbuh) corrects the errors that crept (knowingly or unknowingly) into the message that Jesus (pbuh) brought. This book was not preserved on paper or in one church but in hearts of thousands of muslims who memorised Quran word by word the way it was revealved and recited it daily 5 times in prayers. After Mohammad (pbuh), there was not even one dispute about a word of Quran in compiling it, that's how what you see today is only one original Quran in arabic with exact words in each one of them. Quran should prove to be a very valuable asset to both Muslims and Christians.

Quran: [4:171] O people of the scripture, do not transgress the limits of your religion, and do no

Answer 2

It isn't just christians, any parent that forces their religion on their children, and those children never question it.

Answer 3

Along your line of thinking.....Should we talk about how the world has brainwashed people such as yourself to believe what you believe?

Answer 4

that you go to h**l if you dont join

Answer 5

ahhh but think HAHA....

What kind of athiest brainwashing is there???

HAHA....BRING ON THE THUMB DOWNS....

Answer 6

Cults.

Examples include most "discipleship" programs, elongated prayers about "saving souls", five-hour bible study sessions, demands to door-to-door promote the church, a church leadership that demands conformity to a "chain of command", "spiritual parents" who act as if they have more authority over a child than the real parents.

Whatever happened to a couple of prayers, a nice sermon, passing out the holy wafers, and going home to watch the Dodger game?

Answer 7

Cults.

Someone already said this, but that's what comes to mind..

Answer 8

History based Christianity never tell lies.  If you want to taste the Lord, come.  We simply inform the community that "Jesus is Lord".  For example, if you want to taste a sugar, can you write it in paper and taste it.  YOu have to get it physically and taste it then only the taste will be known to you.  Also it will not known to you if a person inform that sugar is sweet taste.  Get some sugar and taste it. YOu can feel the difference.

God loves you too.

Answer 9

Brainwashing one to believe lies until they become *only* reality

as skydad

Answer 10

OK.  The thing is that you need to define "Christian" - there are people that THINK they're Christian and there are true Christians.

99.9% of America is deluded and ARE NOT Christians.  Christians do not brainwash, they follow Jesus.

Read the Bible and if you can see any thing in there about Jesus, Paul or anyone else using deciet or anything besides LOVE and COMPASSION to spread the truth, then let me know.  These people in the churches are LIARS and NOT people of God.

2Tim 3:13: But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.  which means:  But evil people and phony preachers will go from bad to worse as they mislead people and are themselves misled. (another version).

Jesus said they would come and they would FAR outnumber the "remnant" of true Christians.  But they are not in the apostate churches, the true Christians are out doing missions or WORKING for the word of God.

Answer 11

believe in Jesus Christ, he is our savior......not!

they tried and tried, but failed

Answer 12

Christian brainwashing :

Creationism , You are going to heaven  while the other are going to h**l (sick ) , the bible is 100% literally true , Pagans are "devil worshipers"  , Don't talk to an Atheist or non-Christians etc..

Answer 13

The one that pisses me off most is that science is an evil atheist conspiracy.Such stifling of knowledge at a tender age is child abuse.We owe our children better

Answer 14

I am a Christian myself. I also am a thinking human being. However I have seen cases of people who were what you might call "brainwashed". That's when people step away from their own ideas and thoughts and accept whatever Pastor X tells them, without weighing his words against the Word of God. For some people it's easier to just coast than to think for themselves. I do think for myself. I also read the Bible in depth. My faith is in Christ, not some church or pastor. And it's up to me to know what I believe and what it means.

It is also up to me to live the truth.

Answer 15

This is BRAINWASHING!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACyLTsH4...

Answer 16

Believing in damnation, not reincarnation. Thinking all you have to do is go, "I believe" and your saved. Fighting against g**s and abortion instead of world peace. Being Pro-Life, yet for war, torture, murder, capitol punishment. Believing Bush has anything to do the Teachings of Christ. Being a politician and knowing all you have to do is be against g**s and abortions and most every Christian in America will think your a "good Christian" no matter what crimes you commit against mankind or how many lies you tell. Thinking the church is based upon the Teachings of Christ, when it clearly isn't and has clearly been a bad tree since it's inception. Thinking the Bible is God's Word, or God's Inspired Word when clearly very little of the authors original words remain, the various books of the Bible were changed time and time again as was the Bible itself. Not being able to see that the church was created to control, not to Enlighten.

Answer 17

in any religion, forcing relgion onto someone. Not allowing them to think for themseleves, christians trying to ban the teaching of evolution in schools, not letting your kids read things like harry potter.

Its controlling them and brainwashing them into one way of thinking!

Its disgusting