How much does your god love you?

Would your god put on flesh simply to be with you?

Would your god eat with you and your friends—even on days when you had taken more than was yours, and prostituted yourselves out of necessity or just for pleasure?

Would your god pray with you and ask you to pray with him?

Would your god throw down some miracles to get your attention, and teach in parables to help you grasp what all-in, over-the-top love truly means?

Would your god exhort, challenge, prod, and demand that you act as if you are loved, and that your neighbors—and, gulp, your enemies—are too?

Would your god say that the most important commandment is love? Love and love some more, seventy times seven love?

Would your god bear denial, betrayal, humiliation, rebuke, agony, even crucifixion for your sake, for love’s sake?

Mine would.