In the beginning, god created man and woman. Actually he did not, but let's go with the myth for a while.
He put them in a perfect garden full of leeks, cucumbers, wildebeest, earthworms, sparrows, apples, and such. But in the middle, he put a tree of ultimate delight. It would be much like surrounding a four year old with vegetables, and showing her a cookie and saying "eatest thou not of the cookie, for surely you shall grow up".
And the penalty for eating the cookie is everlasting pain and suffering, because of the evil Adam and Eve committed, unknowing as they were of either temptation or evil. And god was the tempter.
Not sufficient to torment the innocent people who the Almighty tempted, but all their progeny for all time. Thus was caused the immoral and insufferable concept of Original Sin, even though there was really no
Adam and Eve in the flesh, it being an ancient myth.
For a hundred thousand years, after god unsuccessfully tried to kill off mankind with a Flood for which there is no evidence, god watched, with insouciance, as those created in his image suffered every privation and pain imaginable. Then, about 2000 years ago, he decided to offer redemption to them for his sins against mankind. He sent a man to the most illiterate, backwards part of the Roman Empire with vague messages and an impossibly poor morality to give humankind an out from his malicious will. This man created Hell, the most immoral and hateful concept ever conceived by the human mind.
In order to avoid Hell, one must accept many premises in the absence of evidence. Yes, it's absurd, but that is the deal. One of those premises is that a particular human sacrifice was a successful supplication to a bloodthirsty god on behalf of those few who heard about it and who believed an unbelievable story about it. It wasn't even much of a sacrifice, as the sacrificed ostensibly knew he would arise two days later to become God. Thousands of people were so tortured to death with no such guarantee.
This story is not simply unbelievable, but it is so absurd that to believe in it is to demonstrate a mental and/or emotion failure that disqualifies one from the advancement of the human species.
DF