Rod Watson pegs it in his Buffalo News commentary: Consequences implicit when quoting Jesus

In the midst of the season devoted to celebrating Jesus’ birth, a group of scholars will descend on the Center for Inquiry in Amherst this weekend to explore whether he actually existed.

If they can prove he didn’t, that would explain a lot, considering the mayhem and meltdowns all around.

But if they can prove he really did exist, that might be even worse.

I don’t claim to be a biblical expert like, say, Rush Limbaugh. But even a cursory reading of what Jesus is supposed to have said is enough to make one shudder at the consequences if the scholars here prove he really did say those things —” and that he expected us to listen up.

Consider:

Whatever you do for the least of these my brothers, you do it for me. (Matthew 25:40)…

Read the rest. A great article.