Who is your greatest ethical or moral role model?

I never thought I would say this out loud, but Jesus is my ethical role model. 

Not the Jesus you find in the more fundamentalist interpretation but the human person -

- who swore at a fig tree because he was hungry.
- was racist at times.
- challenged the religious establishment to care more for the poor.
- spoke more about economic justice than sex.
- saw that true spiritual change could occur over a good meal.
- hung out with the wrong people.
-  taught that spiritual practice is an on going, ever evolving process.
- and trashed the temple to protest the over commercialization of spiritual practice.

this is not the Jesus you find in most main stream churches today.  Pity.