Should one faction predict torture in Hell for the members of other, dissenting factions? None of the four groups totally disavowed Jesus' teachings about how to live in this world—nonviolence, honesty, compassion, mercy, kindness, love. What, I wondered, was the quarrel really about? Should people fight over who agrees with Jesus most? Over who praises him most? "He’s a teacher!" "No, he's a messenger!" "No, he’s a prophet!" "No, he’s the son of a god!" "No, he’s God!" It saddened me and amused me to see disciples of Jesus marching and waving the flag of "the Christ," just as the ancient Jews had marched and waved the flag of "the Lord," and denigrating other systems of "belief," other "gods," other peoples, and pronouncing them unfit and inferior to their own, and then the Moslems, likewise, marching to protest what they considered Christian idolatry. "One god, not three!" To me the ancient Lao Tsu sounded so sane by comparison: "The Way is not furthered by contention."