"I certainly was not having a go at you for starting the thread. "
Same here - it's more than a little refreshing to be able to discuss a topic like religion without falling out.
Life of Brian remains one of my favourite films - it was banned in Ireland up to 2003, 24 years after its release, rather astoundingly, 3 years later than The Marx Brothers film, Monkey Business (1931), which remained on the 'banned list for sixty-one years in all.
Jim Carroll