Okay, I agree with you on flexibility, but therein we find the issue...one quibble, the God humans follow is the same God, or manifestations of that god. To say one follows Jesus and his teaching is not to say he's god, maybe divine, or insightful but not god. That was the point for many who founded this country. They found that the liberal values of how we look at human behaviors, to learn to be truthful and open useful. And in many ways you could look at the values they brought to the table, not a human becuase you have money but because we have rights--life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (sounds like Jesus.) And a bunch of hippies trying to remove the shackles of stupidity and rigidity...there's something happening here...saw fundamentalists as dangerous to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So let them have their small, timid, hard, even hateful world...6700 years old, no science, no objective truth. We admire all teachers who share how to be better, just not worse.