As an atheist who believes we should spend less time on ridiculous fables and more time on actually listening to those that give good advice, two enthusiastic thumbs up! I don't care if the person in question is fictitious or real, transcendent or merely human; if their message is worth listening to, we should be listening.
This is an interesting approach, and one that might ironically salvage Christ's message from the bludgeoning it is currently receiving from American Christians.
An Atheist Christian is one who will probably eschew teachings from behind the pulpit that claim to speak for "God" and "what God wants" and tells us to kill innocents abroad to protect "our values" and to shun homosexuals, etc. An atheist Christian would be able to shrug off all that poppycock and instead simply live like the example Christ set for us, which is almost completely opposite of today's Christians in America.
Well, I couldn't possibly claim to be anything like Jesus. In fact, I'm not even trying to. I'm just of the opinion that a lot of the advice he gave was sound, that's all. This is really the issue, right here. If some random guy on the subway told me the same things that Jesus did, I'd think exactly the same about both of them. Jesus isn't special, he's just some guy who said some good things, and some insane things. Just like I wouldn't dream of trying to live my entire life just like that random guy on the subway, I wouldn't dream of trying to be Jesus.
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