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Main article: Criticism of Jesus Early critics of Jesus and Christianity included Celsus in the second century and Porphyry in the third.[364][365] In the 19th century, Nietzsche was highly critical of Jesus, whose teachings he considered to be "anti-nature" in their treatment of topics such as sexuality.[366] In the 20th century, Bertrand Russell wrote in Why I Am Not a Christian that Jesus was "not so wise as some other people have been, and He was certainly not superlatively wise".[367] Russell called Jesus’ vindictive nature a defect in his moral character: There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching – an attitude which is not uncommon with preachers, but which does somewhat detract from superlative excellence.[368] Christopher Hitchens viewed Jesus as unkind, arguing he did little for the world considering his power to perform miracles: “If Jesus could heal a blind person he happened to meet, then why not heal blindness?"[369] |
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