""This didn't prevent her from being a very capable Christian minister or from finding powerful meaning in what Jesus taught and demonstrated about conduct and morality.""

Even those, like myself, who do not subscribe to any religious grouping, can find a model for life and behaviour in the teachings attributed to Jesus.

There is little doubt that he was a real person and that he was a Rabbi (in the truest sense of the word).

However, these events weren't recorded until over a hundred years after his death, by men who had never known him and relied upon anecdotal information to produce the New Testament.

Even then, the accounts recorded by those gospel makers were heavily cherry picked to serve the agenda of those compiling the record.

It's a chastening thought that if Jesus did come back today, the people most likely to kill him are the Chritian Fundamentalists of the US bible belt.

They forgot the most important of his teachings a long time ago.

Don T.