Who was Jesus?

[vulcanlogician]

It's certainly a requirement to believe in a literal christ to be christian (as opposed to a jesusist) - and it's important whether or not that belief is true or false to christian assertions (as opposed to jesusist assertions), for example.  In the grander scheme of religious belief?  No, not at all.  Jesus doesn't have to be real or the real son of god - and isn't, and wasn't, for there to be christians or jesusists.  Fitness of the message kind of thing.

Wow. I somehow went through my whole life never hearing about "Jesusism." (I just googled it after reading your post.)

It seems like it'd be a decent religion. Hell of a lot better than Christianity, anyways.

But it does seem like it would need to be theistic and involve Jesus being the son of God. After all, Jesus says these things in the Gospels. And "Jesusism" would seemingly entail accepting the things Jesus says as true. So as far is religions go some-of-the stuff-Jesus-preaches-sounds-really-good-ism is the better religion in my book.

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Honestly, I wish I could be an atheist. Seems pretty chill.

Be a Jesusist! That seems pretty chill too.

IDK about atheism being chill though. I think chill-ness is a person-by-person thing.