Concerning Christ, I'm certain that many followers secretly believe that “Jesus” resides on Earth and that, upon His death, all existence will end and begin again with his "rebirth." Notice Jesus in quotes. The Christian conviction that He is alive in "heaven" now, poised to resurrect the dead and usher in a new Heaven and Earth speaks volumes, in my estimation. In the present day, a man exhibiting a messianic tendency is deemed mentally unsound; yet, for reasons "unknown," Christians do not apply this judgment to Jesus. I surmise that Christianity’s magnitude renders it impervious to scrutiny, and individuals shy away from the prospect of being perceived as irrational for asserting that “Jesus” walks the Earth. Thus, there lies a collective refuge in attributing such divinity to the figure described in the sacred text provided by God.
You’re making way too many claims you never actually back up.
Most Christians do not secretly believe “Jesus is currently living on Earth and when he dies everything ends.” That’s just not their doctrine. They believe he already died, rose, and is alive in heaven until the end of the age. If you’re going to critique Christianity, at least hit what they actually teach, not a fan-fic version of it.
The “reasons unknown” line is doing a lot of work too. We don’t treat a modern guy who says “I’m the messiah” the same as a figure embedded in a 2,000-year-old religious tradition with texts, liturgy, and a whole interpretive history around him. You can absolutely say that tradition is wrong or irrational but that’s not the same thing as pretending people are just scared to notice he’d be “mentally unsound” today.
And Christianity is not “impervious to scrutiny.” It’s been torn apart, defended, revised, and argued over by believers and nonbelievers alike for centuries. If anything, your paragraph shows how easy it is to avoid real scrutiny by psychologizing believers and attributing a “collective refuge” instead of engaging their actual claims.
NHC
When a child asks a parent, “What happens when you die?” the parent often responds that the deceased go to be with God. It’s a comforting answer, Yet, this unspoken knowledge sustains the Christian narrative. Cultural traditions like Christmas further reinforce this, weaving a story that’s easier to accept than to challenge. Every culture has its way of shielding children from such unsettling ideas, preserving faith through simplified tales of the afterlife.
Nothing in mainstream Christianity says, “There’s a man secretly living on Earth right now who is God incarnate, and when he dies reality will reset to 1980.” That’s your head canon, not their doctrine, not their creeds, not their sermons. You keep inventing a bizarre belief, then treating the lack of evidence for it as proof it’s “secret.”
Never said that’s what Christianity says. What I said was: “but what else could they say? That nothing happens, but there’s a man on Earth who is God incarnate, orchestrating existence, and upon his death, all reality will reset to 1980 with him reborn as a child?” So don’t put words in my mouth. Thanks.
Never said that’s what Christianity says. What I said was: “but what else could they say? That nothing happens, but there’s a man on Earth who is God incarnate, orchestrating existence, and upon his death, all reality will reset to 1980 with him reborn as a child?” So don’t put words in my mouth. Thanks.
Furthermore, I said that Christians secretly think that “Jesus” walks the Earth now and when he dies all existence ends and begins again. I never made any claims that they think it’s me and my 1980 story. Lmao.
You’re dodging, not clarifying.
You did introduce that 1980-reset scenario as the supposed “other thing” they’d have to say, and then talked about “unspoken knowledge” sustaining the narrative. That’s why I called it out. If you now agree Christians don’t actually believe that, great then it shouldn’t be anywhere near your explanation of what’s “really” going on in their heads.
And your core claim still has the same problem:
“Christians secretly think that ‘Jesus’ walks the Earth now and when he dies all existence ends and begins again.”
You’ve got no doctrine, no liturgy, no surveys, no lived practice just you saying “they secretly think this” and then laughing it off with “Lmao” when pressed. No one said you claimed they think you are that guy; we’re saying you’re projecting a weird hidden belief onto millions of people with zero evidence.
If you want to be taken seriously, you need something more than, “They all secretly believe X, and the fact they don’t say it out loud is proof I’m right.”
NHC
