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Jesus is who?

what do you say when someone is concerned for your soul? this is what i'll say:

my morals are christian. i will never deny that because that's how i was raised. i will also say that my morals are the same morals as so many hindi, jewish, muslim, buddhist, pagan, atheist, agnostic, taoist, and so on people. this is why i don't consider myself anything more than a human being. i am one in over six billion others, most of whom share the common moral structure that allows our civilization to survive. if people went around killing all the time, our species would end. of course, we do. we will. we fight war, we struggle, we spar, we compare, contrast, catapult our manure of ideological superiority over others as they send their own. but all anybody throws is their prophet. in all the bickering, fighting, waring, dying jesus, buddha, muhammad, the prophets so many hold high up over everyone's heads are thrown around, ragdolled about, used to divide against their teachings. THEIR TEACHINGS. that's what is so often lost when people say you need to BE a [enter religious designation here]. it's foolish in my opinion, so i choose not to take part. i believe, not think, believe that these moral philosophers would agree with my approach to their teachings. despite what the bible, koran (which both stem from the old testament), et cetera SAY in their WORDS, the IDEAS behind the scriptures are what i see, seek, find, and am satisfied only to a point with. but it's the following of WORDS that make, in my opinion, so many christians, muslims, jews, buddhists, and so on fall short of who they claim to follow. as Gandhi said, "i like your christ. i do not like your christians. your christians are nothing like your christ." it's because he understood the sermon on the mount. he understood the philosophy that was taught. he recognized the ideas beyond mere words. i don't consider myself anything. i don't need to try and reassure myself with a title. i will say i am like jesus. i will say i live close to the teachings of these prophets, philosophers, thinkers, challengers of their modern standard. i will not say i am any better or worse than anyone else, and, no one else is any better or worse than me. 

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