Rapaire, there's much in my own posts at Mudcat to show that I'm against religion in all its guises, and in particular I'm hostile to any state constitution that (de jure or de facto) that favours any religion(s) over others. That goes for Ireland, the US, the UK, Saudi Arabia and everywhere else. But I could hardly claim to be a lone voice. You must be living in a bubble if you've never heard such arguments.

Anyway, if it doesn't matter who killed Jesus, I don't know why you took me up on it, and your cries of "mea culpa" begin to ring hollow.

As you say you're Jewish, I'd be interested to hear your views (maybe CarolC's too, and those of anyone else who could be bothered) on where God was while 1.5 million Jewish children were being murdered in the Holocaust? Was it punishment for past sins by the chosen race, or did God take up a non-interventionist stance after that business with Noah and the flood? Or was he distracted by events on other planets?

Coming back nearer the heart of the thread, Prof Huber Lock (Washington University, Seattle) has made some interesting points about anti-semitism among American blacks. Has that caused any kind of interest or reaction?