"According to the story we have about him, Jesus was not a religious person. He was considered a heretic and degenerate by his own religious tradition. The real Jesus of history would be horrified in knowing that a religious system was created around his personality, and the theological teachings attached to him. The true significance and impact of Jesus will not be grasped until one stops thinking of him as the product or proponent of religion, even the Christian one.

Jesus was not a Christian. He is not the founder of Christianity. Jesus never encouraged people to worship him. Christianity is a religion created in the name of Jesus, and is much different from the actual truth that Jesus taught and lived. Christianity does not own or have first rights to Jesus. His truth has universal significance."

~ Jim Palmer