don't you wish Jesus were real?

[Oakvale]

No, although I see where you"re coming from, I second Dibble - I'm very glad that Jesus as described in the Bible wasn't real (disclaimer: IMO), since the ramifications of not worshipping him are so awful.

[Oakvale]

I like Hitchens a lot, but I'll grant that the above quote could have been better.


 Jesus the son of God were real, then that would mean that for the entirety of human existence before he appeared about 2,000 years ago, God watched upon endless suffering of early humanity in life and the afterlife (if I'm correct, Jesus preached no salvation without him) with complete indifference.  Then, he decides that the best way to reveal the path to salvation is to brutally sacrifice his son in the desert in front of illiterate, uneducated Gilded Age peasants, far away from the more advanced human societies of the time in the far East.