[NuclearShadow]

:starting with the end first:

Joshua 24:14-15 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

14 "Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. 15 But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, ---->then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve<----, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."

Christianity isn't a scare tatic trying to get you believe through the thought of hell. It's not join us or burn in hell. It's worship God or worship any one you want, just dont be indecisive about it.

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Christians aren't taught to be better than other people or to see themselves as superior. They are taught to humble themselves because everyone is equal.

In order to belong many Christians are willing to overlook the fallacies and the acts of other Christians.

Christians are taught to act out of love for others. Not condone other people's actions to benefit themselves.

Umm I don't see how singing praises to God reinforces brotherhood. The praises aren't meant for other people. They are meant for God and God only.

At first it was Satan, the cause of all evil and wrongdoings, the literal boogeyman lurking in the proverbial shadows. But as time passes, less people are prone to believe in Satan.

At first? It still is Satan. If people are starting to doubt Satan then they can go ahead and doubt all of Christianity itself.

Christian leaders have noticed this and have even gone so far as to imagine up opposition for Christians in order to keep them on their toes. The “War Against Christmas” is a good example of this.

This "War Against Christmas" isn't in the Bible. If you're using people's own ideas to help your argument on how Christianity is controlling when it isn't Christianity but some people with some skewed ideas then it doesn't do any good.

If Christians believe that they are under attack, they can gather up their brothers in arms and rise up against the evil outside world and its insidious enemies.

lol you make it sound like christians are paranoid nutjobs sitting in a foxhole getting ready to go to war on anything

Christians are taught that God is omnipotent and all seeing, that everything goes according to his plan. This discourages Christians from seriously questioning their faith. Rather than look at some of the impossibilities in scripture they merely dismiss them as works of God’s omnipotence.

You can seriously question your faith by researching other beliefs out there. And sure, yes, it's not easy to just believe a man lived on earth for 33 years without sinning and died on a cross for everyones sins and defied the laws of death by rising from the dead 3 days later, but thats where faith comes in to play. There have been non-biblical history accounts of a man named Jesus. So with the fact in front of you it's easy to believe a man named Jesus at least existed, but with everything else said about him in the bible, that takes faith. The same faith it takes to believe there was a big bang and the earth was created. The same faith it takes to believe the earth is however many billion years old.

Also let us not forget the guilt techniques used in order to make Christians feel indebted to God.

Depends on perspective.