Jesus: not so great after all

It's a truism in our culture that Jesus, even if he wasn't a deity, was a wonderful teacher and moral being. Maybe we should consider that he was a Madman or Something Worse, though: it's not just that his teachings were abused and mangled by those who followed, but that the ethical heart of Christianity is actually a rather nasty piece of work.

(via Atheist Media Blog)

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