Top 10 Ways to Make Christianity Look Better

Christianity means a lot of things to a lot of people. It inspires, comforts, uplifts, and, for millions, guides their entire way of life. But it's no secret that for others, it can come across as confusing, rigid, or even unwelcoming. That doesn't mean the faith is broken. It means there's room for clarity, honesty, and maybe even a little humility.

You've probably seen conversations spark, sometimes gently, sometimes like a wildfire, around how Christianity is practiced, taught, or presented. People ask fair questions, point out contradictions, or just try to make sense of it all without getting shut down. That's what this list is about. It's a space for exploring the ideas people believe would help Christianity reflect the deeper values it's supposed to stand for: love, grace, truth, and compassion.

The Top Ten

  1. Get rid of the idea that homosexuality and bisexuality are sins

    It's prejudice to be against homosexuality and bisexuality, just like it is to be racist or sexist.

    Choose to be gay? So if you suddenly become a Christian, your sexuality vanishes and you start liking the opposite sex? That makes no sense.

    God is supposed to love all living things. He made people with different sexualities. Even though the Bible presents Adam and Eve as man and woman, it should stop being proclaimed that being gay or any other sexuality is a sin. It's wrong to say so, since God loves everyone, and we can't change who people are. It should be accepted as it is because a large portion of people in our world are bisexual, gay, lesbian, etc. Besides, if it makes people feel terrible, then that's not really spreading love, which the Bible teaches us to do. Lastly, it doesn't say in the Ten Commandments that it's wrong.

  2. Stop using God's plan to justify bad behavior

    People who commit crimes in the name of Christianity aren't real Christians to me. They just claim to be Christian to make the religion look bad.

  3. Stop treating Christianity as the true religion and instead as one of the true religions

    Every religion is a complete mystery. How about this quote from The Simpsons? "What if we picked the wrong religion? Every week we're just making God madder and madder."

  4. Make Christianity less fear-based

  5. Stop viewing non-Christian things as satanic

    This one and number 6 are the only ones I agree with.

  6. Get rid of the idea that Jesus was also God himself

  7. Provide a description of God

    Get rid of "humans are made in God's image." Get rid of creationism.

  8. Provide a description of heaven

  9. Get rid of the idea that God remains hidden to test us

    I think God is not hiding from us. He just wants you to believe in Him, accept your weaknesses as a person, and change your life to be worthy in His presence. Sins are the reason why we are separated from God, and Jesus is the bridge to help us reconnect to God's presence. Just like the saying that God never abandons His people, it is the people who abandon God. God is omnipresent in His creation, so He is not hiding. Everything in this world is proof of God's presence. If you doubt that, it means you have no faith in Him, and you are not worthy of His presence.

    It would be better for God to appear, because then we'd know. There would be no more arguments and fewer jokes.

    This is silly, but maybe the no one except God knows part didn't mean the rapture. Maybe it meant when God appears. I mean, if the rapture happened, Jesus would look like some kind of monster.

  10. Write more realistic stories

    The Bible is based on the Dead Sea Scrolls. If God is real and people find out everything they read was wrong, it would be quite far-fetched.

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    Get rid of the idea that suicide is a sin

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    Get rid of the resurrection

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  13. Abandon creationism in favor of science

    This confuses me so much. When you really think about it, it's similar to the Greek gods, where they reproduced with their siblings. I don't like to think about it, but when Adam and Eve had kids, their children would have had to have more kids in order to keep the lineage going. I just don't know and would rather not think about it to keep my sanity.

    It's like, if evolution is wrong, then how did the human race start if it was just Adam and Eve and their sons? There are no wives mentioned in the Bible. Then we have Noah's Ark - if the whole human race, except for Noah and his family, were the only humans who survived, how did the human race start again, like in the Adam and Eve era?

  14. View Bible stories as metaphors instead of actual history

    Some of them are like parables.

  15. Decide on a proper date for Jesus's birth

    Yeah, this is kinda weird because, for all we know, he could have been born in the summer.

  16. Get rid of the concept of hell

    The concept of Hell makes God seem more evil than the devil. Harmless non-Christian people going to Hell, just because of some piece of fruit 6,000 years ago, doesn't seem right. The same goes for the Rapture.

    God would be dead by now if Hell existed. Can you see people putting up with, "They sent themselves there for not being as nutty as a fruitcake"?

  17. State that other prophets will return alongside Jesus

  18. Demolish the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and The Holy Land Experience

    I have seen pictures of The Creation Museum. The most frightening thing was a door with the sentence "The World's Not Safe Anymore" carved on it, with about seven locks. It also looks like it's in an abandoned place.

  19. Make people realize Easter was originally about fertility (Easter eggs and Easter Bunny)

  20. Get rid of the idea that God is omnipotent

  21. State that Jesus is not the Christ but rather one of the Christs

  22. Replace the Christian cross with a different symbol

    What if it was replaced by the pentacle? After all, it's an actual Christian symbol, and some Christians even wear it to protect themselves from Satan.

  23. Get rid of the Easter Bunny

    What does a bunny have to do with Easter anyway? Was it just some commercial mascot like Santa is for Christmas?

    It's a commercial advertising symbol, not a religious symbol. Anyone with a brain knows that.

    Please learn about Ostara, celebrated from March 20-23. It is older than Easter, and you will understand the origin of the Easter Bunny.

  24. Get rid of the idea that cussing is a sin

    Unless you are saying something like God damn it (just an example), which is using the Lord's name in vain and is a sin, cussing in general isn't a sin or shouldn't be. They are just words that some random person made up out of frustration or simply wanted to say. It's not a big deal, just disrespectful.

    And let's not forget about how they should stop saying suicide is a sin.

  25. Get rid of the idea that Jesus was crucified

    Muslim here. We respect Jesus very much, but we don't believe he was the son of God, nor do we believe he was crucified.

  26. Get rid of the idea that Jesus was the son of God

  27. Get rid of the Ku Klux Klan

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