yoel-
Well the Biblical Jesus is a mess- totally duplistic and a
split-personality schizophrenic:
You have the sweet lovey-dovey meek-and-mild Jesus who forbids calling
anyone "fool" who gives stupid commandments like "resist not evil" and
"turn the other cheek", who calls himself "lowly" and "humble".
Then you have the ranting and raving Jesus who never hesitates to call his
opponents "fools", "hypocrites" and worse. The Jesus who enters a house of
worship with a whip and drives the public out of the temple. The Jesus who
purposely speaks in parables so as to hide the truth of the Gospel and
thereby condemn all unbelievers to a burning hell. The Jesus who condemns
entire towns, the Jesus who drown pigs for no reason, the Jesus who came to
"bring not peace, but a sword", the Jesus who states that unless one hates
his parents, he cannot be a true disciple...
Logically and morally speaking, the ugliness of the character of the second
ranting-and-raving psychotic Jesus should superceed and cancel out the
sweet nothings of the former mushie-pie Jesus.
I'm sure that Hitler had his sweet shoogie-woogie days and that Eva Braun
must have been attracted to SOMETHING.
yoel