The Sage of Main Street
Gold Member
"Blessed Are the Meek"Very few people understand Jesus, and unfortunately a large number of those who do not understand call themselves Christians. This leads to confusion and a very poor image of Jesus to people who are not Christians. They think he must be the way false Christians talk and act.Yes I don't understand why people don't like Jesus so much.
All religions teach people what to think. Jesus did not do that. Jesus said to ask, to seek, to knock on doors that block understanding.
There is nothing to dislike in Jesus. A person can respect Jesus and still not be a Christian or even believe Jesus is what religion pictures him to be.
Jesus would agree that it is up to the searching individual to find truth directly.
I may be the first to point this out, but Jesus was as bad as the worst of his followers. He was a faith-healing con man, a delusional creep, and a pacifier who wanted people to passively accept the wrongs done to them because "only the afterlife counts." His Apostles were gullible drifters. I don't accept the sales pitch that some belief ever has honorable intentions, even at the beginning, if it turns out all wrong.