Why the Crucifixion of Christ is a Fraud

More than perhaps any other point in the story of Christ, Christians tend to focus of the crucifixion as the seminal event. In fact, for many Christians, the crucifixion is the seminal event in all of human history. This is why the most recognized Christian symbol the world over is the cross, rather than an empty grave. But when one considers the fact that such a brutal act only carries any meaning to human beings, and none at all to any other species of life, and especially to an all powerful everlasting God, it is hard to consider it to be anything but a form of emotional terrorism. It is, as it were, simply a spectacle of horrors designed to cattle-prod people into "believing" a story more out of emotional guilt than out of any consideration of whether such a story makes any rational sense whatsoever. 

If we accept the idea that Christ's death and resurrection were necessary to forgive humanity its disobedience in the Garden of Eden by Adam & Eve, then we are saying that two wrongs make a right, by claiming that the disobedience of the latter was rectified by the killing of the former. But how can our collective disobedience to a God be forgiven by an act of murder of that same God, for which that same God holds us all collectively responsible for as well? 

Assuming such an event actually took place, in addition to assuming that Jesus was the "son of God" in the very sense of that phrase that only the Christian interprets it, it seems to never occur to Christians that to think of the crucifixion and subsequent resurrection as representing some milestone in human history, only makes an utter mockery of a God who is said to be infinite and eternal in every way. It is to see such an event through purely human eyes, and nothing more. From God's perspective, on the other hand, it would be like redeeming humanity by becoming an ant that humanity could step on.  Or it is to obsess over a single number as somehow being far more "perfect" or "blessed" than every other number, or even all other numbers combined, from out of an infinite set of numbers.

 If God is eternal and infinite in every possible way, as the Bible and Christians claim, then why should anyone consider His willingness to come to earth and be crucified, just so he can rise again from the "dead" (especially since death is something only mortal humans can truly do, not immortal gods),  be considered "special" in any way, shape, or form? Why would anyone be impressed by a building falling on Superman, when everyone knows that Superman would be completely unharmed by the event, as would anyone else from the planet Krypton? 

The "pain" and "suffering" Christ is said to have endured during his passion, for example, is only "great" when considered solely from the perspective of human beings, but not from the perspective of computers or the wind, or from the perspective of the sun or the cosmos, and much less so from the perspective of an infinite and all powerful God. While such tortures chill most humans to the bone to behold, Christ's suffering, even when combined with all human suffering throughout history, would still amount to less than a gnat bite to the kind of all powerful, "immaterial" and "immortal"  God the Christians everywhere insist exists. 

No experience of pain to a finite human vessel, in other words, could ever be more than the smallest pin prick of an experience, to a "being" that created sensations along with the sentient beings who may be alone in their capacity to experience them. Perhaps it is this ability to experience such pain, more than anything else, that makes us think we are so special among everything else in the cosmos. Outside of those sentient beings, such sensations would be as neutral as any other experience, in the same way that ideas of "right and wrong" only carry the particular "meaning" they have, to finite, mortal beings like ourselves.

The meanings of ideas of "right and wrong" when such terms are used by, say, computers, AI, or immortal beings, on the other hand, would necessarily carry very different connotations. Murder is only wrong to beings that can die, after all, since they depend upon the health of their flesh and bones to stay that way. But to beings that cannot die, either because they have no material bodies or because those material bodies are in fact immortal in some way, "murder" is a word that either does not apply to them, or it would have to carry a very different meaning than the one humans use. In either case, "murder" would not be "wrong" in the sense that we think of it, even if it was "wrong" in some other sense, depending on how such "immortal" beings chose to define such a word, if they ever even thought to use such a word at all.

And like the term "murder," Christians equally ignore the fact that every attempt to describe God necessarily relies upon not only the limits of human thought - and to presume that humans can even begin to conceive of such a "being" is to elevate the human comprehension to the very same level of such a God - but the necessity of always having to describe such a "being" in terms that are always grounded in our own, finite, human, experience and reality. 

To say that God is "eternal," for example, is to describe God in terms of time, even though the Christian claims that God does not exist within the limits of time itself, since time itself is purely a physical experience, at least as far as we know. It assumes, in other words, that by elevating the idea of "time" to a level of endlessness, that such a concept begins to capture at least some aspect of God, when in fact it does no such thing at all; for not only is time a finite thing, but to a God that necessarily created time, and that exists wholly outside of it, using such a measurement to try and delineate God is like using a composite of all the colors we can design to try and delineate the nature of wind. Or it is like assuming to know something about Picasso by the color red.

The crucifixion and subsequent resurrection, then,  would be events that would have as little meaning to a God as the birth or death or any other sentient thing. And the only "being" that would benefit from getting people to obsess their whole lives over something so meaningless to an infinite God, would be a devil who sought to convince them all that by doing so, they would hope to die so they could "become like God."