Go Here Or There: It's Ignorance Of Biblical Proportions

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, we being the higher primates -- Homo Sapiens has been on this planet for at least a hundred thousand years. 

In order to be Christian you have to believe that for ninety-eight thousand years our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about twenty-five, dying of their teeth, famine, struggle, viciousness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for ninety-eight thousand years, heaven watches it with complete indifference. 

And then, two thousand years ago, thinks, "That's enough of that. We should, it's time to intervene. The best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice, somewhere in the less literate parts of the middle-east." 

Not "Let's appear to the Chinese.",  for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. "Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there." 

This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person.

- Christopher Hitchens