Hunniford's pronouncement sounds like the sort of desperate statement that I've heard coming from the mouths of hard-charging evangelists who find themselves failing to save some soul they are hell-bent on saving. Or when they are confronted with the current broo-ha-ha over The Da Vinci Code. But to turn around and say that Jesus didn't exist (and I readily acknowledge that it is remotely—remotely—possible that he did not, sounds to me like just as desperate a statement from those who harbor an antipathy toward Christianity, or religion in general.

". . . full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
               —William Shakespeare, who, we are pretty sure. did exist.

Don Firth