Liberal ("Modernist")

Fundamentalist / Catholic

Muslim

Gnostic

[our proposed reconstructionof the myth]

J.Ch. was impotent prophet

J.Ch. was omnipotent deity

<.M. was powerful semidivine being

Y.M. was powerful divine comedian

Y.M./<.M. was powerful divine trickster

therefore could not hinder others from crucifying him

but had to allow self to be crucified

who was uncrucifiable by ordinary mortals

who was uncrucifiable by ordinary mortals, but who feigned being crucified

who was uncrucifiable by ordinary mortals, but who feigned being crucified,

[because there was no omnipotent deity to rescue him]

in order to please another omnipotent deity who would otherwise have tormented mankind;

for sake of a joke (played upon the self-imagined crucifiers):

in order to shew the people how badly they would treat any earnest prophet;

he died

died, was resurrected [not by his own power, but by that other omnipotent deity -- Acts 2:32; 5:30; 13:30, :37], ascended to heaven,

never died, ascended alive to heaven,

feigned dying and being buried [as a further comedian's joke],

feigned dying and being buried [because he was a trickster]

and he shall not return

and shall return thence to destroy those whose fail to believe him to be divine

and shall return thence to destroy those believe him to have been crucified

and shall return to dismay those believe him not have have been joking

and shall return to punish those who fail to understand why he was tricking them:

because nowhere in the [antique manuscripts of] the New Testament is it alleged/averred that he was divine [the Trinity appearing only in late mediaeval manuscripts of NT].

though neither he nor any of his disciples ever said (in the New Testament) that he was divine.

as it is not enough [for a vindictive God] merely to hold unbelievers in derision .

in order (by his return to the world-stage for an encore from the compraehenders amongst the audience) to fulfull the scripture "the Lord shall hold them in derision".

the reason why being that they had despised prophets (Acts 7:52), not realizing that prophets have the Godhead in them; so he, the Godhead, appeared in the guise of a prophet.

Religion is on behalf of the poor/oppressed.

Religion is on behalf of believers in concocted dogma.

Religion is on behalf of believers in omnipotence of the Godhead.

Religion is on behalf of entertainers & the entertained.

Religion is on behalf of prophets/martyrs (who used to be burned at the stake as haeretics; but now are locked away in "insane asylums").

[After death, all are in the same condition. This is a consequence of no sins being held against anyone, now or hereafter.]

After death, believers go to Purgatory (which is unpleasant); non-believers go to Limbo (which is pleasant).

After death, believers go to a better condition than do unbelievers.

Greater degree of hardship (requaested, or at least not evaded) undergone will make for more transcendent understanding, now and after this life.

The poor/oppressed had best resist [non-violently] their oppressors (identified as the ill-willed among the rich).

During life, believers are kept being serfs (miserable); non-believers (Jews) are given special oeconomic privileges (joyous).

The faithful have to accept hardships in order to have the means of combatting unbelief.

Ostensible tragedy ought to be viewed as divine comedy (The Divine Comedy), the world being a "cruel joke of God".

Physical hardship is necessary payment for mental joy. Those requaesting it (hardship) are amused at the folly of those who evade it (and who will in consequence receive mental anguish).