God: My Bad!
I had an amusing thought while sitting in church last Sunday. If the trinitarian view of the Godhead were correct and Jesus was God, then perhaps Jesus’ crucifixion was God’s way of saying “You know what? I fucked up. All this cruelty and suffering is all my fault, and now it’s time for me to pay for my crimes.”
It makes perfect sense to me, and it would make an omnipotent God seem like less of a jerk.
Tags: Atonement, Christianity, God, Jesus, religion