>You can feel the inherent goodness of certain things, like mothers and fathers protecting their families. ..or Self sacrifice in the name of helping other people you care about, or forgiving those of us who've gone astray and have learned to be better. >All of these things are represented in Jesus. >Don't trust "The Church" or "The Papacy" or whatever - Trust in Jesus. >Be one of the good guys. The world is full of disingenuous assholes. You don't have to be one of them. Trust in Jesus. "I have not come to bring peace but to sow division, I shall turn brother against his brother, son against his father, daughter against her mother, and all against their own bretheren" "If one dies mot hate their mother and father, if one dies not hate his own brethren, if one dies not hate their own selves, they cannot follow me" Jesus and his disciples never took wives, never had children, spent most of their time unemployed and living off the charity of others, and christ himself cursed out and dishonored his own mother. Family is the last thing that they represent, they spent their time talking about destroying families, not uniting them. They had all splintered off from the exact same community that persecuted them, meaning that if the pharisee were representative of jews, then so too were Jesus and his followers. They may have been enemies of the community they had come out of, but the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily anything beyond that. You can reject both, and take a third path. Jesus is not trustworthy in the slightest, he worshipped the jews and put them above the gentiles on multiple occasions, saying that the place of the goyim is as slaves to the jews, he worshipped the poor and railed againat the wealthy, he encouraged open borders and globalism, he was in every way a cultural marxist. That's why the pharisees hated him, nothing gets on the devils nerves like someone who is aiming to be competition in his game, like one street gang stepping onto the turf of another, they each fight evil only because they aim to do the same evil themselves. The saving grace of Christianity was that for the overwhelming majority if Christians over the largest period of the religions existence, most Christians had no clue what Jesus had actually said beyond the carefully selected snippets quoted to them by church officials, who made their decisions based on concerns for socially engineering a functional society of men rather than a people who actually took the full commandments of Jesus at his word. The majority of Christians that had existed never read the Bible, they never knew anything that Jesus said of had not said, and it was considered to be the end of Christian society when people started to be able to read the good book for themselves. Luckily, most people weren't that interested and still proffered to simply be told what parts of the Bible they should listen to, in the event where they did read it, they would not read it like a book, but simply take parts of it out of the greater context, and only those parts that spoke to them, the rest of thevtext was simply ignored. Why did Charles Martel not roll over for the Muslims at the battle of tours? Because he had no clue that Jesus would have had him do otherwise, for him, his own practical concerns about protecting his country and his people from foreign invaders was what made sense to him, and as a Christian, he would simply assume that Jesus agreed with anything that made sense to him. His biblical illiteracy had saved Europe from total conquest by the Muslims. Most Christians don't act like the biblical christ would gave them act, instead they make decisions as rational actors, and then simply assume that God agrees with whatever they had decided, sometimes they even attribute their own decisions to God, when those decisions weren't what God would have supported according to the Biblical texts under direct interpretation.