Coragyps could I ask, where you got your degree in theology?
I don't have one - mine are both in chemistry. If I had taken theology, would they have taught me, "Oh, Jesus didn't really mean what he said there?"
"The wretched world lies now under the tyranny of foolishness; things are believed by Christians of such absurdity as no one ever could aforetime induce the heathen to believe." - Agobard of Lyons,
ca. 830 AD