Phizzy and Nic--I'm pretty pragmatic about Jesus.
If you have time, check out a web page. It's rwandanstories.
There is a choirmaster who tells how he climbed out of his sunday clothes to kill people with a machete. On the other hand a video interview (about 3 min.) tells of a man so good that his killers--They couldn't kill him--they had to find a stranger to do it. Those stories and many others are followed by the practical repentance and practical forgiveness communities(without any mention of religion) have taken up to recover from the gravest of mental and other wounds left by massive slaughter. Wounds of victims and perpetrators.
the accounts illustrate what I mean by pragmatic.
Do I have faith? When I first followed Jesus' teachings I was a conventional believer-- fully indoctrinated by the church. It wasn't until I actually undertook to apply the teachings that I experienced profound effects. Was that faith?
Then I see now there is no proof of his life and actual words and yet I still experience the greatness of the lessons. So I am not a person of faith, am I?
I do not see a reason to throw the baby(Jesus) out with the bath just because I'm "smarter" now.
Phizzy said he can respect my faith. may be there isn't a word for my lack of faith. He has some of the same things going on in his consideration of Jesus. I confess, I eat hot chilis too.
As I say,I am a pragmatist.
edit: there's no more proof of Socrates as there is for Jesus either--Socrates never himself wrote anything either.....