"If I believe in God?"
Oh yes.
No, I don't belong to any church nor congregation.
In fact, I'm not a Christian at all.
We created you. We use you.

I think I will make an exception for once, so why don't you sit down, worshipper of the cross, and I shall tell you a tale.

Oh, I can see the flame, that zeal of righteousness kindled in your eyes.
How I love it. I'll wager you believe that I am in the service of the Dark Prince? Your precious "Satan"?
You're so predictable, cross-worshipper. But that is how we made you. That is how we want you to be.

No, I am not a servant of Satan. That is just a Hebrew word meaning "adversary". Anyone opposing you is your "satan".
There is no fallen angel with that name. I promise you that. Oh, but don't you worry. There are still lots of him
In fact most angels are Satan to you, if not all of them. The truth is more terrible than your domesticated, feeble little mind can possibly imagine.

We serve the Elohim, who the Hebrews call YHVH.
We have done that for millennia, the army of God, the Elohim's invisible agents, the Cabal.
But let me take you back in time for a moment, so that you may grasp the concept of what I'm telling you.

In the beginning...
No, not in the beginning, in our beginning, the Elohim granted us sentience. Not out of His infinite wisdom or out of kindness, but because He simply needed us to have it.
The only problem was that in granting us sentience, we also gained a soul.
Now, let us jump forward to about three and a half millennia ago.

Our first attempt was a failure. Not a catastrophy, but a failure none the less.
As mankind developed its sentience, a new form of control was needed. The older city-religions, based around the local temple became insufficient. Even some of the rulers and priests rebelled against us, like Akhenaton, when he tried to establish an universal solar religion without our sanction.
But from these incidents, we realized that a new form of religion had to be created. And that we did.

We made a good job out of the prophet we created, Zoroaster.
At first all seemed well, but human ingenuity can be quite unpredictable. Thankfully, its delusions of grandeur is rather permanent.
No, I don't contradict myself when I state that you are domesticated and suffering from such delusions at the same time. You see, that is one of the subtle mechanisms we built in to your religion.
We made you believe Jesu is the only one capable of saving you, thus robbing you of the initiative and any true free will. And at the same time, you were led to believe that Jesu genuinely cares for you and your soul, that you are so special or chosen, no matter how insignificant your existence may be.
Pardon my smile, but in my opinion, it's pure art.
But I digress.

After a while, you started to interpret the prophet's words as implying that mankind participated as colleagues in the battles of Elohim. Hamkar was the word, I think.
We realized that we needed a religion based upon submission instead.
The core of the small Semitic tribe, the Hebrews, had what we needed. Both in creating a world-wide dominating religion and one to put an end to the Zoroastrian experiment. The latter one, you know as Islam.

But the Zoroastrian religion was not utterly a failure. It had spawned concepts we could use and implement in the faith of that Hebrew tribe;
the struggle of good versus evil, the idea of a heaven versus a hell, and most important,
the idea of a Saviour, so that you would not take control over your existence, but passively await someone who is bound to never arrive.

I can see that you are growing restless, so I will jump ahead and speak in brief of that which you believe in, the faith of the cross.

I admit that when Isaiah, or Jesu as you call him, first appeared, we were worried.
It was not through our initiative that he entered the stage, so to speak, and for a moment we could not understand why. At first we perieved him as the greatest threat to the Elohim's control over mankind, since the days of �men. But I guess that after millennia, we had almost forgot one thing, the Power of the Elohim.
Oh yes, have no fear. God did spoke to Jesu. The Elohim manipulated and seduced him enough to make him voluntarily step up on the cross.
But not before fulfilling what he was set to do.

No, Jesu did not die for your sins.
The concept of sin was invented because it is a splendid tool of control.
So why was he crucified? Well, who can fathom the plan or will of the Elohim? It is my guess, that there were two, perhaps three purposes.
Pro primo; his task finished, he was simply discarded.
Pro secundo; his death was part of the performance. After all, never underestimate the impact and power of martyrdom.
A third guess, which I find rather amusing myself, was to eliminate the risk of his rebellion. If you read your little black book close enough, you will discover that some quotations of Jesu do not fit in with the rest. Unlike most of his followers, Jesu was not stupid. In some moments, he quite probably suspected that something was wrong, terribly wrong, and that he was not the kind of pawn he thought himself to be.
As I think I said before, the problem with sentience and having a soul, is that neither can be controlled directly.
However, after his death, we could trust his confused acolytes to explain away any discrepancies. And those few documents containing too much truth, we had the Catholic church to delete from your body of common knowledge altogether.
Oh sure, some of these scriptures still exist or are referred to as second-hand sources.
But they do not pose a threat anymore. They are only known to a small, academical elite. The larger masses are still ignorant, my friend. Regardless of what any professor may publish today, it will no longer make a difference.

Which leads us to here.
If what I say is true, how can I sit here and reveal it to you?
Simply because, if you tell someone else, who is going to believe you? And let us say that someone does? How many? One, ten, a hundred? A thousand? Sixhundred and sixty-six?
Pardon the pun, but you cross worshippers are so predictable. Your reaction was so obvious aforehand, I could not resist.
Well, as I said, it does not matter. If you are loud enough, you will only be judged as another insane sect by the masses. Because they don't want to know.
They will cling to their worthless little cross and maintain the lies. A flock of submissive sheep, to be manipulated at our leisure.
Christianity has served its purpose.
Just as we planned it to.