Christianity's "good news"

Here is the core teaching of Christianity, the "gospel", or "good news", summarised in 5 points:

1) You deserve to die (Romans 3:23 + 6:23)

2) You deserve to be thrown into an eternal fire (Matthew 25:41)

3) You are so bad that an innocent person had to be crucified to death in your name (Romans 4:25)

4) If you accept the disgusting sacrifice of an innocent person as punishment for you being such a terrible person then you can have an eternity of happiness (John 3:16)

5) If for any reason you don't want to accept this filthy sacrifice as punishment for you being such an evil human being, you can burn in terrible pain, forever (John 3:18, Revelation 21:8, Luke 13:28)

What a lovely religion. It brings so much "comfort" to people.

How would it really feel if someone was killed in your name? If you were told that you've done so much wrong in your life that you've caused the death of another person? Well that's Christianity for you.

"Jesus died for your sins". We hear that a lot don't we? What it means is that Jesus condemned you before you were born, and that he died for you without even consulting you first. I remember the late, great Christopher Hitchens saying in an interview "I think it's an act of extreme arrogance, and if I was around at the time I would have objected" (that was paraphrased as I can't quite remember his exact words).

To make a Christian out of a regular person, you first have to convince that person that they deserve to die, and if they don't get the death penalty, someone else has to get it for them. Only when you've convinced them that they deserve to die will they have enough fear and self-loathing to fall down on their knees and worship something so evil as the God of the Bible. 

Christianity is not based on love, or compassion, or morality. It is based on fear and hatred of others. Religion cuts a wire in our rational thought circuit and reroutes it to fear. It is that fear that throws us to the ground, that makes us grovel to a mass murdering, attention seeking psychopath. And it is hatred of others that makes us desire hell. Infinite punishment for finite crime.

"Good news" my arse.