Why did Christianity originate?
Christianity originated in order to bring the Law of Moses to the European pagans. To make the law attractive to them, Christianity’s images are all pagan, from the virgin birth of Jesus to his ritual sacrifice and resurrection, because these are familiar ideas that the pagans could recognize and understand. Later, of course, the founders of the church mistook the package – wrapped as it was in pagan imagery – for the Law itself that the package was intended to contain: Love one another and treat each other with justice and mercy. And so instead of justice and mercy we have holy wars and inquisitions, where bloody fools argue and kill each other over meaningless doctrinal distinctions about the wrapping material covering the Law of peace and love they have forgotten inside. God laughs, but Jesus weeps. Religious strife breaks his heart.
