What exist in the name of Christianity I have always called CROSSIANITY.
It is the worship of the cross, not of Christ.
It is the fear of death, not love of life....

OshO


I am offending people because I am trying to live religion not according to their ideas.
I tell you, privately of course, that Jesus used to joke ... but don't tell it to Christians, they will not understand.
They can understand only the Jesus who was crucified.
In fact, they are worshipping DEATH, not Jesus; they are worshipping the cross, not Christ. Hence I call Christianity, CROSSIANITY ... it has nothing to do with Christ.
I know the man, I personally know the man !!! He used to love all the good things of life.
How can he avoid joking? He loved to gossip, and they say he was only delivering gospels!! He was a very very earth-rooted man.
He moved with gamblers, with drunkards, with prostitutes too.
He was not afraid of all these fools ... that's why he had to suffer.
That's why i am to suffer .....

OshO

"I say unto you that Christianity is one of the most untruthful religions in the world. It is a disease, a sickness, a pathology, a poison. It has not been helpful to humanity in finding the truth in any sense. It has been trying to propagate lies so continuously that they have almost become truth. You must have all celebrated Christmas. Have you ever thought that this is not the birth of Jesus? You never remember Jesus on the sixth of January .... I have been thinking that we should start here a celebration for poor Jesus on the sixth of January every year. That is defending the truth. So please remind me when the sixth of January comes, because I have no sense of time at all. I don't know what day it is today, and I don't care. So when the sixth of January comes, please remind me. We will celebrate. At least after two thousand years Jesus will have a real birthday celebration!"

OshO
- Christianity: the Deadliest Poison and Zen: the Antidote to all Poisons.
Chapter 7

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