The passion story represents an exposure therapy on a cosmic level where voluntarily confronting the ultimate malevolence of life can redeem it.

“it looks to me like the the passion representation and its mythological substrate is exposure therapy on a cosmic level and you you know that the more deeply you grapple with the fundamental issues of Life the wiser and broader you get”

Atheism is simply a failure to be convinced by the claims of religious believers rather than a doctrine in its own right.

“it's not even the assertion that there is no God It's just that it's a failure to be convinced by any of the gods on offer”