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The essential basis of Christianity, to test the worthiness of God’s own imperfect creations to enter his kingdom of ‘heaven’, is completely meaningless.

This all-powerful creator could have made us all perfect, but didn’t - instead like the capricious Greek deities, he decides to make us sinners and goes through the ridiculous rigmarole of faking Jesus’s birth, life and death for purely symbolic purposes.

This is all supposed to be the ‘spiritual’ meaning of life, but actually reduces our existence to just a childish, silly parlour-game. It’s very a shallow non-philosophy, when the real spiritual issues for us all are the struggle and pain of living as complex, vulnerable organisms co-existing with others on a small planet, and the quest for knowledge and understanding of the universe around us. These are all brushed off by Christianity as side-issues - ‘trust Jesus, and it’ll all be all right’.

My life is not so absurdly simple.