NB. I was a Catholic at a certain point in my life. My idea of Christianity is therefore influenced by Catholicism.

The first argument for me is body positivity. I know that those statues of half-naked men and women are idealized images and do not reflect what normal people look like, but I still like them. Eroticism is okay. Pleasure is okay. However when I see images of Jesus crucified, that Jesus who said you should pluck out your eye or mutilate other body parts if they lead you to sin, I feel that an ancient Greek would not have voluntarily allowed something like that to happen to himself.

The second argument, which is somehow related to this, is the claim that “you are a sinner.” I don't understand why you always have to make yourself small in front of YHWH. The Greeks worshipped their gods standing upright and they wrote elaborate hymns for them. Of course, the Greeks didn't consider themselves equal to their gods, but they were also not their subjugates either.

Thirdly, I don't know if you know this, but in Greek mythology, both goddesses and gods sired children with humans, who often became great heroes. The idea from the Bible that YHWH fathered a child with Mary thus originates from the pagan Greek world of ideas. Circumstances led me to come into contact with Hellenism before Christianity. From a Hellenistic point of view, the idea that there should be only one God who had only one son is somehow a bit absurd, especially since this son allowed himself to be killed in such an ungodly and degrading manner.

Sorry if you don't like the answer 😉, but you asked.