What Is Christianity?

You may not like the answer.  What is Christianity?

Some people now believe Jesus Christ didn't exist.  Other people now believe that Christianity was created by the Flavian Dynasty of the Roman Empire as a political control mechanism.

Starting at the very beginning in the Torah (what we commonly call the Old Testament) from an objective perspective the Israelites aren't nice people, Conquest and Genocide aren't nice acts.  If someone behaved like Moses was depicted in the Torah in the United States (in spite of what we've been taught we still have standards), he would've been declared insane, given a life sentence, or given the needle.  What I have to say about Yahweh (a.k.a God) would require obscene language.

The Galactic Core is 30,000 light years away from us.  It takes 30,000 years for light from the Galactic Core to reach Earth.  That's five times the age of the Universe according to the Book of Genesis.

There are true believers in Christianity.  There are cultural Christians, people who perform the rituals that they were taught.  They still attend church with their families for holidays and weddings.  Many people fall into this camp.  And there are people like myself who simply don't believe.  Unfortunately, some nonbelievers (outside of the Objectivist camp) fall on the wrong side of the political line.

We in the United States are fortunate to live in a country where religion is no longer backed by the force of the State.