The Bible may be a bad novel gone very wrong but what about the main character 'made flesh' as a template for model human behaviour ie Christ? Really? Take up your cross and be a self sacrificial schmoo. You'll get your reward in Heaven!
Imagine the ultimate perfect scam ever devised by man and -you have the Bible. Can't fail. Give us your money, pay us our priestly wages - and when you die you will get your reward! Wish I'd thought of that one! Give me some money this biz opportunity can't fail. You won't benefit now but when you die you will have riches beyond your wildest dreams! Where do I sign?
And what a psychotic loser this fictive Christ is. He wanders around in a psychotic daze,having visions, talking to himself, is clearly schizophrenic, does magic tricks as all fakirs, gurus and shamans do, he gulls the uneducated illiterate peasants of the day, pulls a few stunts, annoys the Romans who pin him to a cross. Someone nicks his body and the story gets out he has risen to heaven, transcended death, a world religion grows up in his name helped and expressly facilitated by the Romans as they know a good pacifying peasant-crowd controlling cult in the making when they see one -render under Ceasar yada yada.
The Roman State thus captures and co opts Christianity, exports it globally, hundreds of millions of people over the next 2k years are murdered in endless wars and genocides and eventually after oceans of blood has been spilled Christianity is put back in its box from which it should never have been released, the Reformation tames it, the Enlightenment neuters it and it is now a pallid pathetic shadow of its former evil self, free to mutter its watered down blandishments, its leaders suitably defanged, left going through the motions mechanically soulessly,impotently in a well deserved fate of self parodic irrelevance.
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