the real example of jesus christ
come on christians ... i get the sympathy with jesus,
but jesus might not have ever existed, and if he did
he sure and hell was not magic. the more evolved a
religion is the more pragmatic it is and the less it must
rely on magic and myths and the supernatural.
anyway, another way of looking at it is that christianity
became a thing under the romans. how did the most
brutal hierarchical mechanistic, money drive and corrupt
nation in history ( well, one of them anyway ) decide to
adopt a pacifistic religion like christianity?
because it teaches people to "render unto caesar", that is
be a peaceful working, and by the way at the time that
pretty much meant being a slave or certainly without any
actual civil rights, and trust in your reward in the hereafter.
it was political brainwashing for the naive, surrounded by
all kinds of mystical ideas, romantic notions of humanism,
and the same kind of promise of reward as the muslims get
if they sacrifice themselves to the nation. this notion of a
better more civilized system than slavery, but without anything
real about drove the western world for many centuries. it
was a brilliant political innovation by the romans.
sadly it still works the same today.
the plain truth is that the message is be like jesus and you
had better be ready and willing to give up everything you have
including your life and get murdered for going against the
establishment.