re: And now, for something totally different...
I am not a Christian, in fact I have no religious or supernatural beliefs at all. As I mentioned in another post, I suspect the Universe is nothing but matter and energy interacting in time and space. However, one of the things I have always found philosophically appealing about Christianity is that the Divine came to Earth to partake and experience human suffering himself. This is a beautiful concept which I believe explains the great success of the Christian faith. All the rest, original sin, the trinity, salvation, redemption, is simply incomprehensible to me.
I am reminded of the famous rabbi who once said (I paraphrase) "Do not do unto others what you would not have them do to you. That is the law, everything else is commentary."