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To Re-label Christianity and kill it.

For too many people the words "Christianity" and "Christian" are synonymous with goodness. They are acceptable words in society.

These days we know that Christianity is nothing more than a powerful meme, a mental virus, and Christians are its carriers. We should rename it accordingly.

Here is my proposal. We call it MECHSIA.
It is an acronym: "Middle-Eastern Cult of Human Sacrifice from the Iron Age."
It sounds like an illness and we should use it accordingly: "Do you have Mechsia?"

This word carries within it a summary description of Christianity which is blunt, clear and UNacceptable. No journalist would defend human sacrifice. No mother would want their child going to a Mechsia holiday club. No hospital would want a quiet room dedicated to Mechsia. If this could be used widely, it would end the religion, IMHO.

With other conditions such as AIDS, Typhoid, Polio, the sufferer is not given a name, ie they are not described as a "Typhoidian". We say they have typhoid.
I suggest that sufferers of Mechsia should not be given a name. We should say they have Mechsia.

Alternatively, we could use "Mechsiac" -where the C stands for Carrier.

I'm under no illusions about difficult it would be to force a new word on the world. It's another meme and it either catches on or it doesn't.

What do people think?

Tags: Human, Mechsia, Name, Sacrifice, virus

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer W on September 9, 2009 at 9:50am

Ah, prayer. False hope with folded hands!

The most shocking thing about that article was that the hair designer was actually straight!!

Permalink Reply by Jason Spicer on September 4, 2009 at 4:48pm

Well, it certainly seems to be the case that a fair number of people who abandon traditional religion pick up some other strain of woo instead, if recent polls are to be believed. But I think it's fair to say that at least a simple majority of Japanese and Scandinavians have indeed dropped traditional religion in favor of secular materialism. Plus, alternawoo like belief in ghosts, astrology, numerology, pyramid power, ESP, etc, are generally so disorganized and individualistic that there's no risk of nonreligious supernaturalists causing serious damage to society by, for example, blowing up buildings. Again, Crazy Bob and his amulets and incense aren't really much to worry about. Ghoulish "mediums" who prey upon the bereaved are actually causing damage, but again, not in any particularly organized way. They should be dealt with as the individual frauds they are. That they are not is testament to the default amount of respect accorded to preposterous personal beliefs by our overly credulous society.

Permalink Reply by Creature on September 4, 2009 at 4:51pm

If it makes you feel any better:

The other day at work one of my coworkers pulled me aside.

"I need to talk to you, about the new girl."

"Okay..."

"Well warn you really."

"Okay, about what?"

"She's a Chris-tian," his eyes widened, and he drug the two syllables out. You see in some circles "Chirstian" has come to mean roughly, "deleusional, repressed goody-goody you better watch out or they'll rat on the most minor of infractions, or worse yet you'll wind up in a boring, circular argument with a brick wall."

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There is hope yet, and I do like your idea.

Permalink Reply by x Secular X Combatant x on September 8, 2009 at 11:08pm

Round these parts it's called DE'MECHSIA
get it dementia, first sign of a brainwashed well wisher of dead people
you know the total lunacy of saying; "oh so and so is up there with all white clouds fluffy and holy white robed saint of your father's father"

who needs that now? Kings I guess. Saudi kin/evangeli/zionist/etc..
word

Permalink Reply by Jared Lardo on September 8, 2009 at 11:16pm

Yeah, this one doesn't catch on. It's way more viable and undorky feeling to say "They have christianity.", simply calling the religion itself a disease, than to try this weird shit.

Permalink Reply by Jason Spicer on September 8, 2009 at 11:52pm

Hmm, that's not bad. Even better to refer to the severity of the condition: "He's got a bad case of Christianity." Mild case, terminal case, etc. Could work.

Permalink Reply by XOX on September 10, 2009 at 5:35am

Well, I did try in a personal way.

I called christian a fictional god follower (saying that his god is fictional until proven to be non-fiction), or a prick-god-follower.

It works for me.