Jesus’s wisdom is in the principles that cut across religious and secular boundaries: calls to love your enemies, to care for the poor and marginalized. These teachings don’t require belief in supernatural events to be meaningful. Any skeptic can still recognize the wisdom in “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” or the revolutionary ethic behind “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” By prioritizing Jesus’s teachings, Christianity can emphasize principles that unite, without relying on coerced belief in two-thousand-year-old supernatural accounts to win people
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