The Jesus story makes a little bit of sense in that "My brother knew one of his disciples! That whole thing totally happened, bro!" way, where the hook for belief stems from the locality of the myth and its characters rather than the veracity of the story itself.
But, yeah... the story itself is utterly ridiculous. Some kind(ish), loving(ish) man-god decides to pull suicide by cop in order to create a pathway to forgiveness for the things he put in place while in his god form hundreds/thousands of years before... and we're supposed to be grateful, even though we weren't sinners when he offed himself... and the sacrifice didn't stick because he decided that death kinda sucked three days into it... and it raises a shit load of questions about the nature of sin and god's strength and/or intelligence/wisdom to overcome it/absolve it if that's the best solution he could come up with....
But, yeah... the story itself is utterly ridiculous. Some kind(ish), loving(ish) man-god decides to pull suicide by cop in order to create a pathway to forgiveness for the things he put in place while in his god form hundreds/thousands of years before... and we're supposed to be grateful, even though we weren't sinners when he offed himself... and the sacrifice didn't stick because he decided that death kinda sucked three days into it... and it raises a shit load of questions about the nature of sin and god's strength and/or intelligence/wisdom to overcome it/absolve it if that's the best solution he could come up with....
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
