Good point PoppaGator, maybe I should have said "one of the flaws" or "a".
Getting back to the original point, what then was the purpose of the death of Jesus?

Something seems wrong here, but I'm going to have to agree with Amos. A very succinct explanation of the nature of a scientific theory.

Remember Newton's "Theory of Gravity", jump of the top of a tall building and tell me if it hearts when you hit the deck.

This is not an attempt at trolling, but an attempt to get at the truth.

This whole planet is at a point where all these disparate and mutually exclusive religious beliefs and the worldviews they engender threaten our survival as a species.

I don't go round bombing churches or disrupting religious services, and what people believe happens to them when they die doesn't matter to me as long as there decent people while there here.
Having said that I'm not going to sit around and do nothing if religious views threaten the human rights of my family and friends.

The point is that most of the world's big religions evolved in agricultural economic systems that have a basically controlling attitude to the natural world and an unavoidable tendency to intensify production to the point of ecological collapse if they cannot expand.
Agriculture can no longer expand significantly and if the intensification necessary to feed an increasing population is not reversed ecological collapse is inevitable.
The fact that some religious people near to positions of power see this as a good thing is very very dangerous for the religious and the sceptic alike.

PP