The spirit in which Buber has carried on this dialogue is made clear in his reply to Rudolph Pannwitz's criticism that Buber's contrast between Judaism and
Christianity has been unfavourable toward the latter: «Religions,» writes Buber, «are receptacles into which the spirit of
man is
fitted.
If there is no Jesus, there is no «
Christianity» — a term that is very muddled, by the way, because there are over 2,500 versions of
Christianity, each designed by
man to
fit the teachings of Christ into the version they prefer.