The long quote about night life in Roman cities and the Christians in the catacombs...I liked it. (No one has to convince me that organized religion can be weird.) ;-) Still, I have no difficulty imagining that Jesus/Yeshua was a real person who walked around and preached and got crucified and had a religion started afterward in his name. Some people seem to have a deep emotional need to prove he never existed....not an easy thing to do after all this time! Heh! But faith is unshakeable in both true believers and sworn non-believers. They both tend to suffer from the same kind of dogmatic obsession to prove themselves right and others wrong, in my opinion. It's a psychological illness commonly found in about 99.8 percent of humankind.

Who is "little Davey"? Do you mean Walsh?

What "D" stuff? I don't follow you. (But that's just because you aren't quite charismatic enough! Heh!)