The invented gods have the appearance of benevolence till they are examined. They serve to comfort us and keep the boggy man from the door. We invented ethics like we invented these gods. God is here to serve our fear of death. As he grows less benevolent we try to attain a more moral value to our lives without the fear of eternal retribution. We cant blame him or praise him, for he is our invention.

The trinity is part and parcel of that invention. We attempt at restructuring the concepts to hide our silly inventions.

As much as I respect your boldness, which I certainly relate to, I think this is a reductionist view of religious myth.

Just as the genitals are also the organs of excretion, so religion also does a double duty. Think of Michelangelo, Bach, Raphael, Romanticism in general - including Nietzsche. All were inspired by Christian myth.

Fichte conceived God as a moral-world-ordering. God as a suprasensible force. This reminds me of Jung. God as a motive energy toward the ideal. And this ideal is flexible. It can call itself anti-christ or scientist. It's the energy in us that does not seek food or sex, etc....

This sort of the tragedy of the sublime individual traces back, in my opinion, to Christ.

Since we can trace nearly all the elements of the biblical account of Christ to earlier stories, ie: Horus, Chrishna, Mithras, etc., then if you can draw a connection to Christ, the connection must, neccessarily, go further back. Christ simply became the popularized version of the same story. I think these sorts of issues have always been with us, in one form or another.
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I agree, one can go back further than Christ. Indeed, indeed, And Christ is an import. Have you read Spengler? For him, our Western Christian "Faustian" culture is more similar to the Egyptians than to the Greeks and Romans we took so much from. He thinks our sense of time and history is quite different than that of the classical age. To oversimplify: classical man lived in the present and the spacial. Christian / Egyptian man lived in the past and future, time more than space. He makes a strong case. And the book is sublime in general.