Date: 4 Dec 1997 04:41:13 GMT From: (Lev Lafayette) Organization: The University of Melbourne Newsgroups: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian

In < Rowland Croucher < writes:

RC: Another of my lecture-questions (in the same genre as the one about 'Does God love the Devil?) for your consideration...

RC: Of course, it relates to the proposition that if Jesus cured all the diseases of people he came across, and had no illnesses himself would you classify a sneeze as a response to a foreign incursion into one's body, etc. etc etc.

I can't answer whether JC ever sneezed, but I can confirm that a Sneeze of the Holy Ghost was once kept as an artifact by Catholicism.

However it was deleted post-revolutionary France. In the age of reason, so it seems, someone opened the bag.

RC: And, by the way, one of my young female clients who has been seriously sexually abused asked me (with her social worker present): Did Jesus ever get an erection? First time I've ever been asked that one!

I'm not to sure about this one either. However it is believed that JC suffered that most common form of childhood sexual abuse, i.e., circumcision.

However it seems that he suffered a little more that others. At one stage their were 14 copies of the Holy Prepuce (as it was known) scattered over Europe. The Son of God was obviously well endowed.

Since 1900 a person who speaks, writes, reads of the Holy Prepuce is a "tolerated infamous person", however the Holy See reserves the right of excommunication if you get to loud or smutty about it.

... but of course, I'm an apostate.

Shalom! Rowland Croucher ()

and peace to you too Comrade,

Lev Lafayette