Making Excuses for Christianity

One of the main reasons Christianity has survived as long as it has is the reflex of its followers to rationalise and excuse. Every atrocity, every scandal, every institutional crime is met with the same response: deflection. The favourite: "you can't blame God for what His followers do."

This is a lie, and a lazy one. It separates the fruit from the tree, as if an institution that has consistently produced the same results for 2,000 years can claim no responsibility for the pattern.

Every time a priest says Mass, he invokes the Nazarene. The "body and blood" are symbolised in the communion (Matthew 26:26-28, 1 Corinthians 11:24-25). The congregation participates in the invocation. This is a spiritual act with spiritual consequences, and those consequences accumulate over centuries and across billions of participants. When you invoke an entity repeatedly, across two millennia, across billions of people, and the results are consistently negative (corruption, abuse, suppression of knowledge, institutional violence against dissent), the entity being invoked bears responsibility for the current that flows through its name. You don't get to invoke a force a trillion times and then disclaim the results as if they were someone else's problem.

Many well-meaning individuals enter the Christian seminary believing they're doing the right thing. They're often genuinely compassionate people who want to serve their communities. Through ignorance and deception, they're drawn into an institution that transforms them in ways they don't anticipate and often don't recognise. There's a measurable difference between who they were when they went in and what they become after years of immersion in a system that demands celibacy, rewards secrecy, punishes dissent, and concentrates unsupervised authority in the hands of individuals with no accountability to the people they serve. The John Jay Report (2004) documented over 4,000 priests accused of sexually abusing more than 10,000 minors in the United States alone. The Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report (2018) identified over 1,000 victims across just six dioceses and documented decades of systematic institutional cover-up. These aren't isolated failures. They're the statistical output of a system that produces exactly what its structure is designed to produce.

The defence never changes. Every argument in Christianity's favour follows the same logical structure: isolate the examples, deny the pattern, redirect blame from the system to individuals. "Those weren't real Christians." "The Church has reformed." "You can't judge the faith by its worst examples." This is textbook Birburim: the use of sacred speech to obscure rather than illuminate. The words sound reasonable. The logic is designed to prevent you from seeing what's directly in front of you. When the evidence is overwhelming, the No True Scotsman fallacy is deployed with the confidence of a theological axiom. If the fallacy had a patron saint, it would be the Abrahamic God.

Their own scripture says: "By their fruits you shall know them" (Matthew 7:16). The fruits are on display. Two thousand years of them. The Inquisition (1231-1826). The Crusades (1096-1291). The residential schools that destroyed indigenous cultures across four continents. The sexual abuse that has been documented in every country where the Church operates. The covering up of the sexual abuse, which has been documented with equal consistency. The wealth accumulated while preaching poverty. The power consolidated while preaching humility. At some point, the excuses run out and the pattern speaks for itself.

The Abrahamic Inversion documents the full scope of what the Church has done and why. The Family of the Gods offers what Christianity never could: a spiritual path that produces what it promises.