Summary of the liberal Christian worldview
After leaving the Earthly life enjoying the freedom of its misery for billions of years without any
creationist or other help to its genetic evolution, the Son of God once suddenly decided to come
to incarnate and die on the cross in the last, most powerful species, the very one that recently
started, and even more especially was going to most dramatically further destroy the ecosystem of that planet.
Why?
Not to save it from the impact of any such damage for the next million years, nor to
indicate, as He could, to individuals of good will the means to finally build a world relieved of
a considerable part of its many sufferings.
No. God did all this just for the mere sake of saying us a little hello and tell us He loves us,
but without writing anything clear and precise destined for future generations: the beloved
Son of God only bothered (invested all his power) to secrety come, at a time still deprived
of any appropriate technologies nor any other favorable circumstance that might have recorded
any credible traces of this fact (for fear of the potentially catastrophic implact that such credible
traces would have had against our freedom of conscience), the most extraordinary miracles of
all times, including a lot of miraculous healings (forgetting, by the way, to utter any words about
hygiene or medicine that might have helped people better cure themselves in the future), in
precise conformity to what men had just imagined in all their previous myths, just to prove His
divinity and the importance of His words, to anyone who would happen to have the fantasy of
believing in the authenticity of the story of these miracles.
He thus came to address Himself exclusively to the some of the members of this species at
that very specific time and place in its own language, to tell them things easily accessible to the
simplest-minded of them, that they could easily imagine, understand and transmit. Such as, the
idea that, among all animal species, only they were made by God in His image; that men are free
and responsible for their actions, and given the priviledge to reign over the rest of nature; that one
ought to love one's neighbor like oneself; that one should render unto Caesar what is Caesar's,
and live according to one's conscience.
This way, that message will eventually impose itself naturally onto that herd (in that time's
competition with other similar words by similar messiahs that would eventually be forgotten
by all), prior to His departure. He wrote nothing by Himself, for fear of letting future generations
any chance to exactly know what He really meant, but preferred to leave to others the care to
freely and imaginatively distort His words to suit their mood and the culture of the time, so as
to give free rein to any illimited hijackings of His words by various groups and institutions that
would commit many massacres in His name. As for all those that this stuff will stimulate to
desperately attempt to reconstitute, by means of endless works of reinterpretations, what might
be inferred from the finally available writings onto what it could really have originally meant (and
what the initial divine message could have been; that is, anyway, hardly any significant or original
stuff), this offers them the opportunity to give free rein to their creative imagination. By these
means He invited, for centuries and centuries, inspired men to rejoice their hearts in memory of
His love, through the contemplation, full of devotion, of that cloud of smoke He once raised in
history.
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