advocaat...

i can very easily see where you are coming from with so much killing and hatred in the name of a loving god.

from my reading through of the bible, and with jesus more specifically the new testament, i got an overall message of love, peace, and acceptance from jesus. now those who "carried" on his teachings once he was gone, they are a different story.

i was curious as to what teachings from jesus lead you to feel he is a bad example.

i know much of what stemmed from his root teachings or current interpretations of his teachings are destructive... but i would not label him as bad because of how people carried on after he was dead.

example: people take the saying "i am the way, the truth, and the light, nobody comes to the father but through me" as a way of saying you must believe he is god and obey him to avoid hell... i believe his message was saying that living a loving, selfless, forgiving life is the way to god/heaven/whatever one calls it.

i see a man who came to abolish "the law" or religious organizations and set up a personal spirituality... of course due to human nature those after him took this freedom of exploration and set up a bunch of rules a regulations around it, completely defeating his purpose.

imo