Christ. I bet you're fun to have to sit next to at a dinner party.

Not sure I ever said I only posted to crack a joke? I may have said that some people deserve no better than others taking the piss out of them, and I gladly supply that service, although whether it is funny or not is highly subjective.

On your final point, I am sure there are people you have met countless times who haven't got you weighed up either.

I don't appreciate CofE ceremonies. I just get nostalgic for tradition and part of my community tradition has been that weddings, funerals and christening are things you book a church for and enjoy it. I enjoyed a Buddhist monk blessing me at a temple in Thailand last week, still got the armband on in fact. Doesn't mean I have any understanding or curiosity over Buddhism. It just means respecting the tradition and making an old dude feel he was being useful. (The 2000B donation may have been more useful, but I digress.)

If I booked a church and it was, as in the case of a christening I went to last year, a modern building with a vicar in a Casual flowery shirt wanting everybody to call him by his first name, drums, guitars and weird beards crying thank you to Jesus every time he opened his mouth, and so called hymns that just chanted "Love Him!" And not a bit of Wesley in it.... Well that's not the church I would be willing to book as it has no tradition or relevance for what I want. The parents were regulars there and so for them, it meant something, but there again, they were Christians so of course it did.

Interestingly, on the wireless this morning there was a story where some magistrates have got together to petition the justice secretary to stop using swearing on the bible (or Q'ran or whatever) when giving evidence as people should be encouraged to be truthful for truth's sake. Interesting discussion, especially the spokesman for some Christian think tank who said it is a non debate as Christians wouldn't recognise the sanctity of the court without it.

Wow... I'm not stupid enough to see him speaking for Christians but you either recognise the sanctity of a court or be in contempt of it, with the resultant criminal sentence. He was giving "Christians" a bad name. But there again, so many flavours, choices, get out clauses and denials that the term Christian is meaningless anyway.