To Atheists: Who, in your opinion, was Jesus Christ?

[Mister Agenda]

Based on the Gospel stories etc, who do you think Jesus Christ was?

E.g.

A. Someone who claimed to be the Son of God but was not.
B. A Great Humanist with Moral Teachings like Love Thy Neighbor.
C. A Nice Person who (allegedly) did not intend to found a Religion. 

etc.

It'll be interesting to hear what Atheists about the most successful Founder of a Religion in Human History.

I lean about 51% towards an apocryphal wonder-working rabbi once a follower of John the Baptist whose activities ticked off the Romans enough for them to execute him and on whose sayings Christianity is partly founded (I think it's more fair to call it Paulianity than Christianity based on their proportional contributions) having actually existed. I don't think he performed real miracles and I don't think all the sayings attributed to him were actually his. What he really said and did is unknowable at this point, but I don't think he really claimed to be more or less a son of God than anyone else.

Since I don't have to take the Bible 'as gospel', I presume the sayings and deeds I like have some value and the ones I don't like or don't make sense didn't happen or were done by someone else or indicate that the lessons of Jesus aren't everything they're cracked up to be.

PS: Welcome to te forum! If you haven't made an intro thread yet, I'd be interested in reading it when you do.