We have not just mankind but the whole world under a curse of suffering and death -- because Adam disobeyed. Even if you take the Adam and Eve story as allegory, it still is just not credible. Curse? That is something of primitive magic. Why? What has the gazell brought down by the lion anything to do with sin or disobedience? What has the death of millions of men, women, animals and forests killed in a volcanic eruption have to do with it all? It just didn't hold even a drop of water.
And then we have the idea that this is lifted (although strangely the suffering is still around) by the human sacrifice of a god or of God (depending on your view of the Trinity) dying in order to somehow, I can only think magically, lift this.
Of course the idea of sacrifice, even human sacrifice, to mollify and bribe the gods was common enough -- humans when faced with things out of their control invent ways to at least think they are doing something -- but isn't Christianity supposed to be above and superior to such primitive things?
And then we have the idea that this is lifted (although strangely the suffering is still around) by the human sacrifice of a god or of God (depending on your view of the Trinity) dying in order to somehow, I can only think magically, lift this.
Of course the idea of sacrifice, even human sacrifice, to mollify and bribe the gods was common enough -- humans when faced with things out of their control invent ways to at least think they are doing something -- but isn't Christianity supposed to be above and superior to such primitive things?
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