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"After going to church my whole life, I considered the idea that God's son came to Earth and suffered and died for our sins. Why? I mean Jesus suffered, but you can't argue that he suffered any more than a lot of other people have suffered. I can think of examples in my own family. My brother Mike, who had cancer, suffered unspeakably for a very long time. So, OK, Jesus suffered. I mean he apparently suffered terribly for one - maybe even two days. I heard someone say once that Jesus had a really bad weekend for our sins. I suddenly thought, 'Why would a God create people so imperfect, then blame them for their own imperfections, and then send his son to be murdered by those same imperfect people to make up for how imperfect those people were. And how imperfect they were inevitably going to be. I mean what a crazy idea." - Julia Sweeney