Who is to say it is pure theater? I was saying that there could have been other means to supply the same result.
Agree on the last part. The whole torture porn / long weekend combo is senseless, when whatever it's supposed to signify has so many more sensible resolutions, if you believe in that sort of thing. In short, the guy is mad at people he made, who do exactly what he planned for them to do, so he punishes generations and generations of more people for stuff they didn't do, but more stuff that he's mad at because of rules he set up, so he decides the best way to resolve all this is somehow to become a person and get crucified, knowing that as an eternal all powerful something, he's really in no danger at all. So instead of saying "Wow, I fucked this whole thing up, I literally have every option available, including deleting people and literally changing the way their minds work. Could I just, say, remove the whole condition of death? Should I maybe re-examine why I think every person I made is a total piece of shit, like maybe it's something I wrote into the code. Does it say more about ME, that I'm getting so mad at this stuff? Maybe I can get a look at some of these rules they're having such a hard time with, is it possible I'm being too strict? I mean I did write don't think about fucking your neighbor's wife, but then I also gave people this like CRAZY sex drive, what was I thinking? Is the penalty for taking my name in vain, whatever that means really, is that REALLY eternal damnation? Hm. Let's workshop this, I mean I made a whole universe, these little tweaks are nothing to me!"
What God decided was "You know what I'll do? Go get tortured and crucified, pretend to be dead, then maybe appear to a few people, like a dozen, give or take. That will send a vague and highly disputed message to a very small number of people...that's definitely more my style."
