Just look at his [Jesus'] teaching and his influence for what it has been through the ages—there is really no secret about that—and be clear-minded and fair in your estimate of what kind of person could have brought such teachings and influence upon human life. As for those current Christian scholars who want to cut him down to human size or find him inaccessible, just ask this question. If what he was and said is what they say he was—a "gentle cynic," as some have called him, or just an ordinary human being who got caught up in the myth-making of followers who imposed upon him unreal layers of divinity and miracles—and said, would there have been a Christian church and a Christian world order at all? Would anyone even be interested in what those scholars now have to say about him? The answer will, for most, be quite obvious. Nor would there have been the system of moral understanding that remained in the Western world as a treasured store of knowledge to guide being and doing well into the twentieth century.
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