He was a mythological character who in all likelihood did not exist at all.

Discussing the different literary incarnations of a character can be constructive and instructive for understanding the people that create these myths and for whom the myths resonate.

It’s worth considering that the things people tend to highlight about jesus’s behavior are the things that we would today consider good and righteous rather then the petty bitch stuff he is also known for.

I’d like to encourage people to care about the poor, contempt the wealthy, shun the violent, pity the misanthrope, help downtrodden, comfort the suffering, and open their arms to embrace humanity.

Since the whole story is made up in the first place perhaps we get to choose the parts of it that we think need to survive. The myth doesn’t need to be real for compassion to be worth investing with faith.