"Skeptics" lol. Who are they? What legend? Ridiculous to lay down on. You mean the crucifix was not just a symbol for the Christ child only meant to be lost on us all. The story is just a fable or a look into some madman's life. If Christianity on the basis of promise to the afterlife didn't create religion, then I have question to answer. What is god if not a living organism that just dies after they sin for the duration of the time they spend while living. That follows, the sacrilegious right to die, (again based on Christianity) where we are made destine for a greater afterlife is not where the truth of Christ ends. The greater lie told is that Jesus's persecution was unjust. Plain and simple. Our right to the afterlife is what changed us metaphorically speaking. But the second truth to this is that if we don't have an afterlife, the purge is on religion to disprove that our lives are just inevitable death. Death as inevitable regardless of a treasonous execution of the man who saved us from our sins or if it were just a grey area being us as mortals and the fact Jesus was wrongly persecuted is enough to justify our misery. I will surmise this in my conclusion:

That just the thought of misery leads us to a slippery slope. The whole premise of Christianity would collapse as a system.

I will always believe in Christ. Christ the man. (Figure it out.)

I don't need science to debunk that. It never will. It never can.

There is nothing wrong with Christianity until you provoke me with my own beliefs as somehow false. What is not true for me - is true for everyone as well. (i.e. it is a person's right not to agree with me; because it is not up to me to make them believe the same thing that I believe. However, that doesn't require myself to be induced in taking another position without equal gratification.)That is my idea of how Jesus lived. It is up to all of mankind to emulate it. To deduce what is the promise of us as mortals through something greater than yourself.

How can that be wrong?

- Marco