Jesus' Crucifixion a parable

[Brian37]

It is a parable on not being religiously gullible.

Jesus' life, albeit most of it was conveniently omitted from the narrative, was relatively blessed.

So some people didn't like him.  Whomsoever has never been disliked by anyone please cast the first stone.

When this man who has been thus blessed throughout his life reaches a pinnacle where he realizes he will die, he shouts out, "Why hast thou forsaken me?"

He shouted that not as a curse against anyone, but instead it was a curse against his own delusions, because wouldn't it have made more sense for a divine intervention to take place to reinforce his delusions when he was most in need of help than when he was blessedly walking around simply preaching his delusions?

The lesson is that those who hold high standards of divinity to be there when they are at their lowest often find a lack of support while continuously supporting that divinity when they are at their best.  This is not to state that they do not also succumb to cognitive dissonance in continuing support of that divinity when "prayers" aren't answered, because the religious mind will psychologically fool itself into accepting god's existence through his "mysterious plan".

Any sympathetic or empathetic person can understand that a god who allows for suffering when it is within his capability to create a world without it is not a god worth acknowledging.

 

What is suffering? what if God created a place where suffering was limited to a mild frustration for not getting your way. That is in this world God eliminated all true suffering.
 
All except for the mild frustration we have when things don't happen the way we plan.

Now for the inhabitants of this world not getting your way is the absolute height of suffering. no one could suffer so much than one who does not get his own way.


So to them not getting their way is no different than dying on a cross. So then the uninformed there would also imonish god for the depths of suffering just as you do because it is not in the true nature of suffering that we or they complain but the inability to change our circumstance to live the life the way we want to live it.

I doubt 6 million Jews would call their suffering and death "mild".

I find this downplaying logic vile. If you want to call genocide "mild" or the rape and murder of a child "mild" that says a lot about your sense of morality. 

There is absolutely no way I would allow such a character(being the god character) to baby sit a kid if I had one. 

You cant even see you worship a fictional idea, and not only fictional, but immoral, one that teaches you that you are more like property, a lab rat, a toy, and not a human being deserving of consideration. 

Your corporate logo, the cross, is a symbol of torture. I find nothing good about the idea of torture.

Nor do I find it moral for an authoritarian who takes away my autonomy and decides for me whom I have to associate with or forgive.