In response to Martha Bruso's post on March 23, 2012:
I think that belief in God is not required in order to believe in Jesus' social views, although obviously the two often go together. One can support Jesus' vision of an egalitarian society without being religious at all, or one can believe that he was a (human) revolutionary with very strong and valid religious faith, or one can believe he was actually the son of God. God was certainly not just a feature of the story added in by later historians; Jesus himself was Jewish, and the Jews of his time did believe that God existed. Whether or not one believes in God, the fact that many people in Jesus' time (most probably including Jesus) did believe is hard to dispute. However, the idea of Jesus being the son of God was likely added in later. While of course I cannot prove this, I seriously doubt that Jesus himself thought that he was the son of God (unless, of course, he actually was.)
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