Holding My Peace

I stay deliberately anonymous on this blog and my blog partner for the past 6 years or so also prefers to but his reason is that he is a man of the cloth and i will insist on writing religion bashing posts which make him cringe like this which would see him in a lot of hot (holy) water with his Bishop so if half of it goes missing between me emailing it to him and him posting it then we will know why.
My story starts, as it usually does, with a group in town who tried to engage me in the usual 'God Loves You, come to my Church' type thing where a polite: 'No thank you' leads to them questioning why i was failing to receive God into my life with the implication that everything would be immensely more hunky dory if i did.
Now I have a rule where i don't push my Atheism onto strangers unless they try and push their religious views onto me first and I have had so many discussions with folk who refuse to believe that i refuse to believe that i have so many ready arguments to pick from and just need a starting point, and this one was printed on the leaflet she held out to me which said: 'God gave his only begotten Son for our sins'.   I felt a bit sorry for this young lady, she was only about 18 and was wearing a Nirvana Hoodie and obviously brainwashed by her parents into believing what they did so i just smiled, decided to cut a fellow Nirvana fan a break and put my hand on her shoulder and just said: 'Not interested thank you' and carried on to my car.
What i wanted to say was 'Actually, in the original Bible which was based on the ancient Hebrew texts of Judaism, called the Tanakh, God was going by the name of Yahweh and in that he ruled side by side as a divine man with his wife with Asherah and she was held in very high esteem by many worshipers who erected many wooden pillars and statues in her honor and they had 77 Children but when the ancient Bible Authors began gathering the stories from other religions for their shiny new Christian Bible they edited her out, by referring to her as a sacred tree in an effort to hide her and make Christianity a Monotheistic religion unlike the other ones which had an array of Gods.
After being written out of the Christian Bible, to further kick her further away from her ex-husband, she became morphed into a Pagan goddess and worshiping Pagans was a huge no-no and any statues to her had to be destroyed because of the whole False Idols bit of the commandments and the 77 kids became 1, Jesus, so basically your God had 76 other children with a wife, not just the one who he 'gave for our sins'.
Of course you know all this because you have studied early Christianity before deciding it is the right one for you and you haven't just blindly gone with the one you was 'told' was the right one because if not that would be a bit naive to not check it out for yourself, wouldn't it?
Instead I walked away and decided to write about it here instead and make my blogging partner uncomfortable by having post this instead.