A WHITE PAPER ON CHRISTIANITY
OVERVIEW: A first-rate advertising campaign tied to a third-rate polytheistic cult. This is one of the two dominant “Jealous-God” religions. The three main creatures they worship are “Jehovah” a Zeus-like sky monster, “Jesus” a prophet who is believed to have faked his own suffering and death (an immortal god of course cannot feel fear, suffer pain, or die and really ‘sacrifice’ anything), and the “holy ghost” which is some demon thingy that takes over human bodies. There is a fourth god “Lucifer/Satan” who is a troublemaker created by Jehovah. The Catholic subdivision also focuses on the Virgin Mary and a bunch of saints. No other religion can get away with so many atrocities with a reputation for being “peaceful”; in fact, there is no religion in which the advertising (all that “love” and “peace” stuff) bears so little resemblance to the actual religion.
STRATEGY: World domination by any means necessary.
STRENGTH: Nearly 2 billion humans (although this figure apparently includes many baptized/registered-at-birth people in Europe who have abandoned Christ, several psuedo-Christian New Religions and cults, plus tens of millions of people in Africa and Latin America who mix Christianity with traditional beliefs). This religion has spread around the world due to conquest and political manipulation. Most current populations, even in Europe, were once forcibly converted, by foreign invaders or local leaders who were sponsored and put in power by Christian nations. Christianity has the most extensive propaganda machine ever created, and employs hundreds of thousands of missionaries with billions of dollars raised in the wealthy, white nations for the continued bribery and brainwashing of pagans and the suppression of heretics.
OUTLOOK: This religion has supreme military, financial and political influence; it also has the will to commit horrible atrocities. Humanist ideals have slowly been seeping into the religion, but not enough to slow the often bigoted and unethical missionary offensive against other faiths.
Currently the fall of Marxism has opened up many countries to intense conversion efforts. China and Mongolia, where Buddhism was destroyed by Marxism, have been targeted so that Buddhism will not recover. Sub-Saharan Africa has been almost completely converted after its conquest by Europe. However, this religion has failed completely in Islamic nations, and may be undermined by apathetic secularism in Europe and, without full-scale persecution, is vulnerable to a resurgence in neo-paganism and New Religions.
One other issue that has arisen is the competition between the various Christian groups, which are cannibalizing each others’ membership (Protestants vs. Catholics in South America; both vs. Eastern Orthodox in Russia; and Mormons expanding against all worldwide).