Asking "why?" about Christianity... Where does it get you?

It could be said that the question "why?" has been weaponized since the 20th century; because the assumption is that asking it "will get you nowhere". In other words, the assumption is that asking why repeatedly will merely lead into an infinite regress. 

But, if honestly and rigorously pursued, asking Why? over and again would lead to metaphysics - it would lead to each person's bottom-line assumptions of the nature of reality. 

And that -  surely? - would be a good place to arrive: I mean, it would be good for each person to know exactly what are the ultimate assumptions that he is basing his life upon. 

That this does not happen is partly due to lack of honesty and rigour; and partly because people disagree; are unsure, confused, or mistaken; about what kid of answer would (even in principle) count as a valid answer to Why?

When Why? is applied to Christianity, the effect is usually destructive; because the Why is coming-from metaphysical assumptions that reality is wholly-material, dead, purposeless; and therefore Life has no ultimate meaning beyond the transient states of human psychology. 

These assumptions ensure that the only acceptable answers to Why? are those which reveal Christianity to be rooted in ignorance, delusion, or some attempt at manipulating other people for selfish gain. 

But among self-identified Christians; their (again usually implicit) metaphysical assumptions ensure that acceptable responses to Why? will lead to a predetermined destination - and this destination may be hostile to "Christianity", in the sense of a religion that accords Jesus Christ a central and essential place. 

I have often commented here that extremely few Christian theologies have comprehensibly and coherently provided an answer as to Why? Jesus is essential. 

In a nutshell; this is because most "Christian" theologies throughout history seem to have been seeking an answer as to Why? God the Creator is necessary to the existence of everything.

For such persons; the sought-terminus of the sequence of Why? questions is therefore assumptions regarding the absolute perfection, completeness, power, autonomy, self-sufficiency, knowledge etc. of what must necessarily be One deity. 

Such persons will only accept an ultimate answer to Why? that deletes all freedom and choice and individuality; because the ultimate situation wants-for-nothing, and goes nowhere; since nothing can be added to it, nor can it be changed. 

Such an ultimate situation has no essential place for Jesus of Nazareth, yet self-identified Christians have a personal love of the person of Jesus; and wish to argue that Jesus's life was essential, and that to follow Jesus (in some sense) is essential for salvation. 

And this is why most theological explanations for the nature of Jesus and what he did; are extremely complex, highly abstract, and dogmatically "mystical" (as with God asserted as both one-and-three persons, or Jesus asserted as both immortal-God and mortal-Man). Christian theology is therefore fundamentally incoherent. Such Christians are trying to fit-Jesus-into a scheme which - by its own bottom-line definitions - does not need Jesus. 

My point is that on the one side we have mainstream atheist-materialist people whose assumptions are nihilist (i.e. that there is neither purpose nor meaning to reality) asking Why? questions of Christians whose assumptions are that One God is Everything... which therefore entails that Jesus is inessential*. 

Small wonder that so few thoughtful, rigorous, honest Why?-asking people are at all impressed by the answers of Christian theology, and therefore do not convert to a strong and life-shaping faith...

Despite that mainstream modern ideology offer people - literally - nothing; and indeed the negation of all possible questions of Why? 

*Jesus is "inessential" unless and until Jesus has been "mystically"-combined into the One self-sufficing God in a perfect situation that needs nothing and goes nowhere. Small wonder that so many people regard "all religions as ultimately the same" - since this notion of Christianity is ultimately the same as monotheisms such as Islam and Judaism; and then these monotheisms are ultimately the same as Hinduism and Buddhism in terms of their assumptions of a changeless, timeless, self-sufficient ultimate reality that is unity.