(January 14, 2015 at 9:14 pm)IanHulett Wrote: I'm saying I'm a person who rejects the belief in a God or Gods(atheist) but prefer to see Jesus as a teacher of morals.
Why would you want to do that?
Jesus was a terrible teacher of morals, or at least a wildly inconsistent one for whom you would need to do an awful lot of cherry picking to place him as more moral than, say, any given human being today. For every "do unto others"- which was present in moral teachings that predate Jesus anyway- you get his advocation of slavery, wherein he uses parables where returning escaped slaves to their masters is a morally good act. For every "turn the other cheek," you get his peculiar and comprehensive racism, where he compares everyone other than the tribe of Israel as dogs unworthy of salvation, going so far as to refuse to heal people based on that.
Jesus being a moral teacher is technically true, in that he taught things with a moral bent, but we can hardly pretend that he was a good one. Hell, if we're doing comparisons, I'm a better one, as I don't advocate for slavery.
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