Farewell Tour is a story line about the Creator traveling throughout the created order, offering redemption to every class of intelligent beings - at the cost of his life, in every one of their forms. :WM
I admit to pitying people whose life goals consist mostly of doing stuff any animal could do (eating, drinking, copulating, etc.). I am not proud of that but there it is. :WM
Your declarations that we should all be members of One Great Tribe carry no extra weight of authority over other people's adherence to millennia of experience. What to do? :WM
Atheism is most easily adhered to when one declares only the most childish & shallow theologies valid, and then rejects those. It is significantly more difficult to conceive of theism as an unwarranted belief system, if one has any experience with any philosophy deeper than, say, intentionally irrational faith. :WM
Is it the Bible, and particularly the Old Testament, that is like a keleidoscope of insight, or is it my mind, looking at the Bible, that is the kaleidoscope, or is it both? :WM
The holiday that shouldn't exist. And yet, here it is. The story of a man rising from the dead, resurrected, emerges at a time, and among a culture, where such things were beyond imagination. So: why is it? :WM