Joe Offer said :

"religious disagreements be avoided, since we had already exhausted that subject"

Really?

Have you, or any/many Mudcat posters read Richard Carrier's "The Historicity of Jesus"?

This chap has produced an exhaustive study into Jesus... or, more precisely, the myth of Jesus.

He has even applied science -i.e.maths - to the question of the likelihood that Jesus even existed.

No, as long as academics keep looking in to the matter, the discussion of "religious disagreements" ( as Joe puts it!) should certainly not be avoided.

No matter how uncomfortable it might make certain posters feel.