Assuming the crucifixation as factual history is the problem.
Instead, view it as a constantly occurring event in all of our lives. Which is that we all suffer, and suffering provides the opportunity to review actions and decisions, some which will be found to be in error. This capacity to view, judge, and make determinations is a rather important part of our makeup. The values we distill through our experiences are more important than the experiences themselves, and persist as experiences fade. The resurrection demonstrates that.
Dying is not apt metaphor for health.
The metaphors of Christianity are hateful to the body. The "flesh” hinders your spiritual growth and you’re to “die” to it and become inhumanly spiritual until you rise above it all.
There are so many "shalt nots" in it. It's ascetic self-denial to the core.
A life-affirming therapy would go the other way around. Drop the schizotypal sense of separation from nature; where in Christianity "sin" is more a separation from an introjected father figure and what "he" wants for you. And learn to shamelessly be who you are as an earth-animal and throw off burdening crosses and inflated ideals that’d make you disappointed with yourself, your life, the world.
You can learn and grow without crucifying yourself. And life's not that much suffering. I have doubts about the whole "suffer to learn" stuff. A lot of learning is from curiosity, not from digging out of errors.
Christianity as an ugly metaphor for good things is quite a stretch.
Good post. This should be repeated on a daily basis. Christianity does not reflect either a useful understanding of humanness or a humane regard for it.
No one died. It's a story about a trick performed by a magical being. Humans really do die, no exceptions. We don't come back. We can't take three day death vacations and then magically return, refreshed and enlightened. (Well, we can, in a spiritual sense, but it requires neither actual death or magical beliefs. Christianity is antithesis to that kind of spiritual or psychological transcendence. The belief system, as it operates today in the US and elsewhere, includes everything you need to
prevent such enlightenment.)
The crucifix is the most inhumane symbol among religions and other ideological conformist groups that worship their symbols. Even 'Muricans who want to force everyone to bow to the flag worship a symbol that contains elements of reality. We do have fifty states. We did have thirteen colonies. The colors represent values that are human in nature, not magical.
What's a cross got? Questionable evidence for starters, but even as purely a symbol, it's pretty heinous. If it represents dying to the self and selfish desires, there are much more humane and realistic stories and symbols that can reflect that quite well without needing blood or torture or murder to capture the experience as a symbol.
But no, they have been conditioned to obedience over conscience, conformity over courage, and an encyclopedic volume of various ghoulish and psychologically damaging bullshit about human behavior, bodies, minds, hearts, relationships, societies, and thought. They would like to stick with the easy, conditioned,
literal beliefs that hijack fear and cognitive error, even if that means holding up a depraved act of horrific violence and murder as a banner of truth, while in the real world demonstrating the worst of human behavior and calling it "good."
Of course, if people freely, consciously, intelligently reasoned out their beliefs before settling into their truthiness, as opposed to the usual monkey-see-monkey-do methods of cultural development, there would be so few Christians in existence as to make them irrelevant to the world.
