Am I nuts? I like Jesus..:)

[Astonished]

Guys, guys, I keep asking you exactly why  you don't like JC, was it something he said or did that ruffles your feathers?
When am I gonna get a straight answer around here?

Telling you that we don't have a problem with Jesus as a person IS a straight answer. Either he's made-up and all of his words are really someone else's, or he's real and we don't know which words attributed to him are his and which were put in his mouth by writers. Either way, we have no reason to be mad at Jesus as a person, if he was a person. Some people's conception of Jesus, and some of the people who claim to represent him, on the other hand, don't make him look too good. Maybe Jesus was an asshole, but we can't KNOW if he was an asshole. Maybe he was the most lovely person in the middle east in the 1st century, but we can't KNOW that either, I'm afraid.

Whoever first told the Parable of the Good Samaritan, I like it. Whoever told the parable about beating slaves, I don't like it. I don't know if either or both came from a 1st century rabbi named Yeshua who got in trouble with the Romans. Crucifixion is a hard way to go that I wouldn't wish on anyone.

For me, since Jesus as described by pretty much every Xtian is part of the trinity and therefore is Yahweh incarnate, ergo he shares the stain of being the worst character in all of fiction with Yahweh, so that's part of it. It's just that being human, he's able to be smug and hypocritical to people's faces so he's even bigger of an asshole; like when they give someone in a movie an apple to chew on. So he's basically like a really bad villain in one of my books, movies or video games; I hate the character but I know he never existed. It's just aggravating that so many people actually think he IS real, exactly as described.