Jesus Was Way Cool/Quotes

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"One thing I'll say for him: Jesus is cool."

Jesus is just all right with me!
Jesus is just all right, oh yeah!

Doobie Brothers, Jesus Is Just All Right

Well, I bet he'd be cool
I bet He be damn good looking
I bet that He smelt divine

Savage Garden, I'll Bet He Was Cool [1]

How do humanists feel about Jesus? I say of Jesus, as all humanists do. "If what he said is good, and so much of it is absolutely beautiful, what does it matter if he was God or not?"
But if Christ hadn't delivered the Sermon on the Mount, with its message of mercy and pity, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I'd just as soon be a rattlesnake.

We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first – rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
John Lennon, quoted in The Evening Standard, March 4, 1966, demonstrating the "Jesus was cool even if his followers all suck" version of this trope

  1. (Later in the song, he's mentioned being on Oprah and starring in a Quentino film.)