Joe, you are skirting round some important fundamentals. Not least mg's point. What kind of a God are you worshipping that allows, say, the Holocaust? That allows innocent, vulnerable, sometimes orphaned, sometimes impoverished, children to be mercilessly tormented by his representatives on earth? (Or are your priests NOT his representatives?)

Why did he invest in us the capacity to do these things? Why did he (allegedly) give us free will? Is he still fighting a (losing) battle with Satan? If so, what of the claim that he's all-powerful? Surely if he was, he would have locked up or otherwise neutered Satan. That way he would not have needed to create a son to sacrifice. Though how putting a freshly created son among the many thousands who were crucified saves the whole world is something I never fully understood. But then I never understood why he would get a buzz out of sacrifices anyway. (If he does, I can see I'm going to be in trouble, because it's an area of my worship that I've rather let slide.)

Am I going to go to Hell? It's a serious question. I'm interested.