I feel I've qualified myself to speak a little about religion because of glimpsing some lives of religion, such as being a nun, a missionary, etc. not here to speak on where I've been or done or draw attention to myself.
In this life, only life that matters right now, I read ACIM, channeled by a lady who won't even put her name on the book and she was channelling Jesus.
Lets just say Jesus type energy, as Jesus can be in many different locations, not being limited to time and space or location, nor the body he did use, the form he did use way back in time when he walked among us. I believe Jesus was also the Buddha..he just weighed a bit more that time

I'm trying to stay on track here, to say I too, was defensive of Jesus, like Justin is perturbed to see him misunderstood so. I was this way, and angry even, until I understood what ACIM was saying.
here is a quote from the first few pages, and if you let your mind settle into it's message it will produce a revelation...
Nothing real can be threatened..nothing unreal exists
the rest of ACIM's message is summed up in that single phrase above..if you truly get it, and understand it, u don't need to read the rest of the book. however, I had to read the entire book and wait 20 years myself to understand that nothing real can be threatened.
blessings..we journey all as one..alysia