Bill D. is right on the money!!

GUEST,Pastinaken, There is a lot more out there being called Christianity than Jesus would have approved of. And there are lots of people who consider themselves Christians who are really NOT, if you compare what they believe, say, and do with what Jesus taught.

By the way (and this is a very important point, as I see it), much of what Jesus taught does not really depend on a belief in God. You don't have to believe in a supernatural being to "Love one another" and take care of those in need.

If Jesus had worn a toga and taught in the agora in Athens, with no more religious overtones than Socrates, he would have been considered a very important ethicist.

His presumed divinity does not alter much of his teaching one way or the other. That's part of the mythology (see comments above about Joseph Campbell).

You can hardly call yourself a Keynesian economist if you generally ignore the economic principles of John Maynard Keynes. But all too many of those who call themselves Christians talk and act as if they had never read a word that Jesus is presumed to have said.

I don't think you can blame Jesus for that.

Don Firth