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He was a jew, and wanted jewish bullshit "laws" followed
People like to write him up as a someone who would pass for a Bernie Sanders with a beard, but it's bullshit
Especially because there's not a shred of evidence that the magic stick-zombie even existed
Yup.
actually, in the NT, when he was beefing with the pharisees, it was because they had gone too lax, not because they were legalistic. Like when the pharisees came and bitched about not ritually washing their hands before eating... he literally called them out for not stoning kids. (which was, IIRC a law in Deuteronomy.)
The pharisees followed the "tradition of the elders" that kind of sorta added some things (like ritual hand washing,) and kinda sorta glossed over some things (Stoning kids that talked back.)
and the 'good' bits people like...? Yeah. that wasn't an original thing either. That time and place there were two movements going on: "Hey be nice" and... basically... the fundamentalism groupies going 'back' to the written law of moses.
Jesus literally had more to say about paying taxes than slavery. Jesus would have been that asshole saying "if you just comply, they won't kill you."
And all that is assuming he actually existed. (or wasn't legendarized. like King Arthur, or Charlemagne an his pallies.)
Even if he did exist, there's exactly zero reason to believe he actually said anything he's supposed to have said. Or even had a "ministry." We need not mention the miracles. (well, I am going to mention that there was a reason that he couldn't do them in his hometown: they knew he was full of shit.)
The point I'm making, though, is even if you just accept it all at face value, his morals were fairly awful. Which is why you get lots of people who follow him and have fairly awful morals themselves.
I have an image in my mind of an orange Jesus grifting and taking bribes to put certain things into the religion for his friends. I have never seen any evidence Jesus actually existed and isn't an just an ancient allegory.
if- and yes that's a very big if- we accept that Jesus had some type of "ministry" he was probably on the level of a proverbial traveling snake oil saleman, selling fake miracles and shit. The iron being, that the reason snake oil salesmen were a thing was because snake oil did have some medicinal properties. Which is more than can be said for random exorcisms and stuffing spit-daubed mud in the eyes.
The gospels were written so far away from where it all supposedly happened that no one was going to go back and check. which is why they were working off the septuagint for the gospels of mathew and luke. and none of the gospels were written by the people they're attributed to, they're all anonymous.
one of the more fun examples of an insertion is the whole virgin birth thing. (Isaiah 7:14, when properly translated says nothing about a virgin giving birth. The word used was 'Almah', which was translated into the septuagint as 'parthenos'. Parthenos basically also meant young woman, but then in christian literature came to mean a virgin, specifically. A mistake they would have caught had they been reading the scriptures in the original language.
Literally every single "and this was to fulfill that" sort of prophecy they claim is like that. It's either not a prophecy, or so obviously not about jesus that it's laughable. (The actual prophecy in Isaiah 7 was about the enemies of King Ahaz, three kingdoms including Israel, who were allies against Ahaz. God was promising to wipe them out. the kid only served as a sort of clock.)