Steven Huffstutler, CGCS said: just quit insisting that everybody has to buy into the same magic that you do.
But if there is no insistence, you lose out on the whole premise of sin/repentance. Without sin/repentance the meaning of Jesus's life would be rightfully called into question. And with no valid Jesus figure as an example of God's love, everything else starts to unravel.
It's one of the tenets of western religion I find hardest to approach. This "DO, OR ELSE" mindset relies so much on trust in opinions and interpretations over thousands of years. I'm asked to trust in the 'dreams' of somebody who claims they're a prophet? They were told something by an angel or god, and that's good enough? -- but it's not just the dreams; it's the interpretation of those dreams by a scribe and then the re-writing of the scribes work by a pope or a king who wanted them to read a certain way, etc.. That's not good enough. It's half-baked. Man gets involved in explaining god to other men = game over, for me at least.
Life is serious business and I don't know if any religion is good enough or trustworthy enough to cover all of it. And by trustworthy, I mean devoid of man and mans hand in devising, reporting, and sculpting it. Anyone asks me to take their word for anything that serious needs to have some game -- and I see less and less game as belief systems age and the world (and man)is better understood.