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But that's simply not true, at least in Christianity's case. If Christianity isn't true, that is, if Christ was not God and did not die and rise again from the dead, then "we are to be pitied above all people". And it doesn't make any sense to say that Jesus is whoever you want him to be. He was a historical individual, and so, just like any other historical individual, one can make true and false claims about him.
The point of the Lewisian trilemma is that it means to exclude the option "Good man, not God". I'd quote, but my copy of Mere Christianity is in a box. Lewis's point is that someone who said the things Christ said could not be merely a good man. Whatever else we might think about people who claim to be God, we don't think that it would be a good idea to think about them as an example.
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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