Right.

Religious fascism is what is needed here.

No disagreements at all.

(Sarcasm off.)

But, from the perspective of the other 'discussion' on this thread, this particular argument is almost as important as an argument over what color Paul's eyes were.

Almost.

The problem here is that there is no such thing as what Christians call "salvation".

Jesus was not 'God'.

He could not "die for your sins".

That was a Pharisaical "cover story" for the fact that he was murdered for teaching the Doctrine of "resurrection" as a Doctrine of 'Rebirth'.

Paul was a Pharisaical double agent. Unable to kill all the followers of Jesus, he decided to work from within to destroy the Teaching of Jesus. His principal goal was to protect the Pharisaical Jewish priesthood against the Truth about the Doctrine of "resurrection" as a Doctrine of 'Rebirth'. And he has succeeded in spades.

Some 2000 years later, he has hundreds of millions--no, billions--of followers. Even the IDIOT Muslim religious 'authorities' and their hundreds of millions of gullible followers unquestioningly believe the Egyptian 'god of the dead' doctrine of a physical raising of a dead body from the grave.

The doctrine that Jesus was 'God' formed the basis of the demonization of "the Jews" as "Christ killers"; which, then, resulted in the slaughter of hundreds of thousands and millions of Jews by Christian anti-Semites and Nazis over the next 2000 years.

Michael