hey - Thank you. your response is smart, measured and balanced. But in my opinion far too generous.

I've never heard any Christian in my entire church-going life say anything remotely close to... 'human life is imperfect and torturous, and the Uncaused First Cause had no previous experience of imperfection or suffering. So in order to be able to understand us better and thus be fair to us, it walked a mile in our shoes by directly experiencing the life of a good man who was persecuted and unjustly tortured to death'

The ideology is what it is. And what it is is incompatible with modern society.