If more churches actually followed what Christ taught they'd all have signs like this...

[stopbush]

42. Sorry, but the warped interpretation of the Bible is the interpretation that white washes

what Jesus actually said.

This is the guy who said that unless you hate your immediate family, you can't love him. This is the guy who called the Canaanite woman a dog. This is the guy who made himself a scourge and beat people with it. This is the guy who said to have no care for the morrow.

The Xians white wash all of these loathsome acts/sayings, putting the best possible spin on it (by assuming Jesus WAS god incarnate, and a loving god, at that) and call it "what Jesus taught."

Jesus was a loathsome creature. Save for the few universal truths he espoused (like the tenet of reciprocity) that were common to all religions at the time and even before Jesus supposedly lived, the rest is gruesome, megalomaniacal, paternalistic bullshit.

Even famed Christian writer/apologist CS Lewis said, "A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse." (Source: Mere Christianity)

If one doesn't believe in gods - any gods - let alone sons of gods, then what is one to make of Jesus based on his actual teachings, which even CS Lewis points out are NOT moral, and the ravings of a madman...or something worse?