You end by saying that Christians should love their neighbours. But the commandment is to love your neighbour as yourself, which is tantamount to saying we should give up entirely on egoism. That's the radical kind of mysticism you find in Hinduism, and it leads to something like asceticism, which is diametrically opposed to the true religion that prevails in the United States, that being a witch's brew of materialism, neoliberalism, consumerism, narcissism, etc.

We can take any story and stretch its implications and applications with our imagination. There's the Harry Potter solution to life's problems too. And fan clubs grow up around our favourite stories to explore and to protect them. So I'm sure Christians can modernize their stories and traditions, and apply them for good or for ill.

The more interesting question for me is whether there's such a thing as the authentic, core Christian message, and whether that message is compatible with modern social norms, including secular humanism, capitalism, and democracy. If not, the Christian's hypocrisy will be painful to witness from a philosophical standpoint.

Then again, Christians would be tasked with sacrificing their earthly happiness to stand up for otherworldly ideals. Too much assimilation and the religion becomes one in a million other social clubs and echo chambers. Too much radicalism and the religion loses its members and its social relevance.