Incidentally D2, that is my current position about Jesus. As I look at his words and actions listed in the Bible I find it interesting that someone described as gentle would express such disdains for so many just because they were not part of his inner circle. Consider his dismissal of the dead with his "let the dead bury the dead" comment to list one. You are familiar with all of them so I wouldn't bore you with them. The negatives of his words and actions far outweigh the positives in my opinion. There was a 1979 book called the 100 which listed Paul as third most influential person in history ahead of Jesus and the author posited that Paul is more influential to Christianity than Jesus. Jesus is more the shadow leader while Paul is the actual leader and that is easy to see as preachers quote Paul much more than they do Jesus or God.