rather than let the naysayers back you into a corner, you should go big. Afterall, the Catholic Church, for a thousand years plus, held a monopoly on God/Jesus and taught the doctrine of burning sulgerous torment pots, and did monster business selling indulgences and in other ways delivering folks out of them for some frame of time. Indulgences were limited to time specified, to keep the market from drying up.
Some bible scholars like Martin Luther got annoyed with drunks not confessing, showing documents absolving them from a need for confession. . . . It was hot competition between Rome and local authorities. The Pope sold indulgences, and the locals collected offerings near the confession boxes. If you bought the indulgences, you didn't go to confession and hence did not drop some silver in the collection box either.
Johhnny-come-lately idealists can smugly sniffle at the "sacrilege", but I assure they are complete liars historically speaking. Muslims who wouldn't confess Allah and pay the fees were just slaughtered. Israelites were for over a thousand years hauling stuff to the Priests' altars. Historically, there has never been any corner of the whole Abrahamic tradition where folks couldn't say, with hardly a glance, whether the other guy was going to Hell or not.
Dal is right about the God thing in one respect. The Trinity is unbiblical, and was only invented hundreds of years after the latest Christian scriptures were written in a vain attempt to clear up all the contradictory statements about their God. And all that confusion created a pretty simple and easy way out for Mohammad. . . . ignore all that scripture and just write his own.
