The passion story represents the necessary pathway to redemption through the voluntary acceptance of unjust suffering.

“the passion story is a representation of the proposition that in order to move towards discovery of what's highest you have to voluntarily accept the conditions of unjust suffering that constitute human existence”

Religious belief is not a valid explanation for the origins of the universe or existence, and is instead a personification of human desires.

“God is just a a personification of human desires a supernatural Sky daddy”

He maintains a belief in God and an afterlife because he finds it comforting and explanatory for phenomena that are otherwise inexplicable.

“I do believe in God I do believe in an afterlife I find it comforting I also find as I said to you last time I find it explains things which are otherwise completely inexplicable”