The World-Conquering Fiction: A critique of the Christian claim that Christ's death on the Cross provides salvation for a 'lost' humankind

The grand claim of the Christian religion is that it alone has the answer to the human ‘plight’, which is that all people are born into a state of ‘lostness’, and are estranged from God. If they die outside of God’s grace and salvation, they will enter an eternal state of separation from God. The solution to this terrible plight is the saving death of Jesus.

But does the Christian doctrine of salvation make sense? Curiously most believers assert that faith isn’t supposed to make sense in a ...