The greatest Teachers ever.....

[Hockeycowboy]

I'm going to include three, who seem to have been the most influential throughout history:
--Jesus,
--Buddha,
--Muhammad.
(If anyone here thinks another should be added, please feel free.)

Now, my question is, Of these, which one do you think has had his teachings (as we know them) more misconstrued and twisted, more so than the other two?

Anyone venture a guess?

Peace to all.

 

[David1967]

Jesus
Buddha
Muhammad

And to answer your second question: All three. IMHO

 

[Twilight Hue]

And here I was thinking the greatest teacher was the one who taught on how to use fire.

 

[Jedster]

The greatest teacher of all time is (your) life itself.

 

[HonestJoe]

Now, my question is, Of these, which one do you think has had his teachings (as we know them) more misconstrued and twisted, more so than the other two?

I don’t see how we could know the answer to that since we don’t have definitive sources of any of their teachings that we know haven’t been misconstrued or twisted (even if it’s with good intentions). We don’t know what any of them truly said and meant by it in life, only what others claimed they said and meant.

 

[Eliab ben Benjamin]

add
Yoseph
Ahkenaton
Moses

 

[rosends]

Experience is the greatest teacher, but often, his lessons are ignored or twisted.

 

[wizanda]

(If anyone here thinks another should be added, please feel free.)

In my opinion:

Missed Lao Tzu from the list, author of the Tao Te Ching.

Now, my question is, Of these, which one do you think has had his teachings (as we know them) more misconstrued and twisted, more so than the other two?

Yeshua's teachings are not accepted by most, as his words are within the Synoptic Gospels; John, Paul, and Simon the stone (petros) are contrary to his teachings, so a majority doesn't follow him.

Buddha's teachings have been used to be contrary to Abrahamic/Hindu religions, and so miss that Buddha refers to the universal mind (God), the heart (soul) being something we connect within to find Nirvana, plus they don't believe in Heaven and Hell, when these are within the Lokas.

Muhammad within the Quran says that we're not to make distinction among the religious text globally, and yet Muslims think they're only meant to read one book, and ignore the rest. Thus many Muslims have no understanding the Quran refers to the golden/Messianic age, and thus many have confused Heaven as a physical place.

Anyone venture a guess?

A guesstimate if we take the whole of their teachings, create a percentage of concepts not followed, we can create a value to compare each...

• Yeshua has at least 75% not followed.
• Buddha has about 35%.
• Muhammad has about 25%.
• Moses has 50%+ not followed.
  
• Lao Tzu has most followed.

 

[Altfish]

Some of our great TV science presenters

David Attenborough
Alice Roberts
Bill Nye
Brian Cox
Neil de Grasse Tyson
Adam Rutherford

There are more

 

[BSM1]

Some of our great TV science presenters

David Attenborough
Alice Roberts
Bill Nye
Brian Cox
Neil de Grasse Tyson
Adam Rutherford

There are more

Carl Sagan

 

[Polymath257]

Socrates
Euclid
Newton
Einstein

 

[Altfish]

Carl Sagan

Oh yes, of course.

 

[bobhikes]

I'm going to include three, who seem to have been the most influential throughout history:
--Jesus,
--Buddha,
--Muhammad.
(If anyone here thinks another should be added, please feel free.)

Now, my question is, Of these, which one do you think has had his teachings (as we know them) more misconstrued and twisted, more so than the other two?

Anyone venture a guess?

Peace to all.

Being that several wars and much of the terrorism today is caused by claimed followers of Jesus and Muhammad, I wouldn't call them great teachers. A great teacher should get there message across clearly.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I would remove Jesus (Paul is practiced more commonly) and Muhammad (his teachings have led to many centuries of warfare and bloodshed), and instead have:
Lao Tsu
Confusious
Socrates (or, rather, the Ancient Greek Philosophers who basically laid out some of the foundation principles of Western civilization)
Sagan and Tyson
Nietzsche
Alan Turing
Einstein
Darwin
Sam Harris

 

[Jedster]

Denny Crane & Alan Shore showed that even Democrats & Republicans can be friends

 

[Tmac]

I'm going to include three, who seem to have been the most influential throughout history:
--Jesus,
--Buddha,
--Muhammad.
(If anyone here thinks another should be added, please feel free.)

Now, my question is, Of these, which one do you think has had his teachings (as we know them) more misconstrued and twisted, more so than the other two?

Anyone venture a guess?

Peace to all.

You left out Marx and he gets my vote.

 

[BSM1]

Gary Larson

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I forgot to add:
George Carlin
Gene Rodenberry

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You left out Marx and he gets my vote.

I don't really see Marx as one of the greatest teachers ever. He had some good ideas, but left to his own it is very open to golden utopias or sombre dictatorships. Even Lenin stated Marx wasn't the greatest influencing factor on his positions, and it's rare to find a Marxist today who goes strictly by only what Marx wrote - they pretty much all have some sort of prefix to address/define their own positions on the things Marx didn't have right or simply (and far much more frequently) just did not include in his writing. Overall, I'd say he's more of a Paul than a Jesus.

 

[Rival]

Rabbi Google