Thanks for your input,

I have arrived at the point in my life where I am happy to place the Biblical Jesus under the category of myth and fiction. I didn’t feel able to do this before, but I am now, because I have learned that there is no ‘saviour’. Instead, one must save oneself. I saw this through the prism of depression. I realised that this world is arranged to favour the strong, and that the weak will always fall by the wayside because that is the nature of things. Viewed in that context, Jesus’s Beatitudes can be seen for what they are: pure nonsense ungrounded in reality. So it is up to oneself to stay strong and learn to cope. No one is going to do that for you, not least a counterfeit saviour. This has been a hard lesson to learn, and I am still angry with myself for being so naive.

In the New Year I shall move on from Christianity. My parents won’t like it but I cannot go on living a lie.

Best wishes,

Tannhauser