I argue that the main principle of Christianity is honesty. The teaching of Jesus is entirely based on honesty. Honesty is the main principle of Jesus himself and what he imposes on his followers, but he didn’t say “Be always honest”, at least in the known records. He hid his real reasoning behind the commandments. I also claim, that it’s possible to switch from the religion of Jesus to the religion of the Father, whose main principle is love, and it’s not forbidden anything, even to lie.
By complete honesty I mean not to say “no” to Nazis on the question whether you are a Jew (if you are a Jew), or if your honest answer would cause nuclear war.
Some of the principles of Christianity seem to make no sense
- Why not to commit adultery? There are of course certain reasons, like STI and “foreign” children. But what, if one has checked the subject of the affair for STI and uses a condom? It is a very hard question why, but there are no indication that in this case the New Testament permits adultery. But if we add the requirement to be honest, the logic of this changes:
- First, one would need to confess (if asked) his/her adultery. This is not a full argument, however: If the spouse and the society accept open marriage, this argument fails, too.
- Second, Christian marriage seems to include the promise not to commit adultery. So, in this case, adultery would be dishonesty toward God.
- Why not to reject Christ before the unbelievers? Whom would I make worse, if I lie that I am an unbeliever, to avoid beating or hunger on me? So, why did Jesus commanded not to reject him before sinful people?
- But if we follow honesty, I can’t lie that I am an unbeliever.
- Because it is quite unclear, what “to reject Christ” means, the only outcome, that I found viable to warrant this, was not to lie at all. So, Jesus inscribed into my mind not to lie, without saying it explicitly (because if Jesus said not to lie explicitly, this would greatly reduce acceptance of Christianity among people).
- Why not to commit hypocrisy? Hypocrisy (saying “Thanks you, nice people.” to sinners – politeness is almost the same as hypocrisy) is our only chance of survival. Who rejects hypocrisy necessarily goes to hunger and beating. It’s impossible to find a job without hypocrisy. So, you would likely die in the first month, after you would rejected hypocrisy.
- Again, hypocrisy is impossible is impossible without lying.
- Christian books say much about “a war with yourself”. Why one would do a war against himself?
- I will explain on my personal example: I got some contradictions in the Christian teaching, like how can I consider myself below others, when I am a great mathematician. As a result, I prayed for a nuclear war to eliminate my own deeds (like saying “I am better than you.”) While the war was directed against other Russians, in its essence, it was my war against myself. During the prayer war, I destroyed, among other, two skyscrapers in the US (saying to angels “Destroy two skyscrapers [in the US] by planes.”), as a response to two American missionaries beating me and as a mean to destabilize world situation to ease for me to start nuclear war against Russia.
- So, I showed that honestly caused me to do a real war against myself. And “war against yourself” is often described as a duty of a Christian.
- This war would not happen without honesty, that caused me to need to control my own thoughts (by changing the world outside me), in order not to dangerously for myself honestly say unpleasing things.
So, we need to free from the honesty-imposed commandments of Jesus and switch to the religion of the Father.