Jesus is a bit like a poet - he has the knack of hitting the nail on the head, like poets occasionally do with their bon mots, of articulating things that are hard to articulate. That doesn't mean I have to be a follower or take him as an infallible guide (I'm not keen on the bit about turning the other cheek for starters, and I do think that just a little providing for the morrow is no bad thing). It would be a pretty idiotic atheist who failed to recognise the goodness in Jesus' teachings. Or the committee that was Jesus, or whatever it was. What a shame we have to have it all mixed up with son-of-God claims and miracles which insult the intelligence. But, when we say that, we get the knee-jerk accusation that we're cherry-picking, of course.