> You do an excellent imitation of an argument.

 NP> I'm married and have a lot of experience.

  Blessed are the cheese makers...

 > It's not a problem to me. I am a stage-2 atheist. There is no god
 > nor ever was.

 NP> There is going to be a lot of disappointed Jews

  Not to mention out of work saints and angels.

 > Jesus could not be something that does not exist this side of the
 > Big Bang.

 NP> There goes all the Christian hopes then

  All dressed up and nowhere to go.

 > I am open-minded about the other side of the Big Bang .

 NP> That was October?... no September 1973

  No - the *other* Big Bang.

 > The whole thing is mad. Jesus was crazy, but nice-crazy. St Paul
 > on the other hand was a good Jewish businessman who recognised an
 > opportunity when he saw one.

 NP> :-)

 NP> I'm very interested to get my 1st year theology students
 NP> comments on that one. :-)

  Tell them that it all stemmed from Paul's dominating Jewish mother,
and a bad mushroom on the Road to Damascus.

Regards,
Bob
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