He frowns slightly at my comment, then laughs.
‘Oh, we no longer believe in the bearded man in the sky,’ he says, and goes on to tell me about continuous revelation and having a personal relationship with Jesus.
‘You see’, he adds, ‘Modern Christianity has come a long way.’

No it hasn’t.

100’000 years ago, mankind explained what they couldn’t understand with ghosts, gods, demons and spirits. And for good reason: they assumed super-natural causes for super-human events like lightning, volcanos or earthquakes. Today, that belief hasn’t changed. It’s our understanding of nature that has.

Continuous revelations and ‘personal relationships’ with gods are nothing more than new struts on the same old pillar of belief. A fresh coat of paint does not make a new house. Astrology done on a computer is still astrology. Nothing has changed. This belief is still bronze-age morality founded on stone-age knowledge.

All Christians are doing is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.