Is it true to say that Christianity is an anti-human ideology

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>>1556753
at its core its a cannabis cult since the time of moses, abraham, and before.

jesus was so big because it took it from the aristocratic priest-king class through the bourgeois through the proletariat

>>1556753
All the Abrahamic religions are death cults

>>1556772
Cotton is softer
>no pesticides
Kekd, I have to put nets on my plants to keep bugs off in late summer

>>1556753
It's core ideology is pro-human but anti-hubris. I.e. be cool to your fellow humans but understand you're not the be all end all big kid on the playground.

>>1556753
I would argue that it's not anti-human.

Christianity seems to take intrinsically human emotions (love, obedience, forgiveness, fear) and universalize them on a grand scale onto the world. In the same way that humans form relationships with each other, Christianity asserts a relationship of every human to a universal God. These emotional relationships are distinctly human, compared to other animals or other material forms.
If Christianity were an "anti-human" ideology, it would de-emphasise human traits, rather than elevate them.

Where I think the tradeoff occurs is that by emphasizing a this universal emotional relationship, other human qualities are de-emphasised or even disparaged, such as freedom, rationality, dignity. The superstitious and absurd elements of the religion undermine the core tenants of love and forgiveness. I think this is why many testimonials about religion are from people who have desperately suffered and need a "relationship with a loving father" to recover, rather than the "fire and brimstone" approach so often used by demagogues. The former is very human while the later is mystical and anti-human.

Most religions are anti-material and thus anti-human in some ways.

Though likewise the material world can be anti-human, if you can tread on others for material gain you need a motivation besides materialism to stop you. In theory religion provides these alternate motives, though as I am sure the fedoras here will point out it doesn't always work.

HOWEVER

Groups like the Amish, hermits and the like prove it is possible at least.