In the end what's important is what's learnt from teachings and stories. Everyone knows about the kid who cried wolf, and lots of children learn a valuble lesson from it, but nobody I'm aware of debates the historical accuracy of the story, because we accept that its truth is irrelvant, and we get the point. We learn the lesson, or atleast understand what it's communicating.

While I am happy to let Christian people follow their own faith and find their own path to spiritual peace, it seems that most christians will not extend me the same cursoty. Perhaps it's due to weak faith in need of reassurance. Perhaps they genuninly want to "Save me", or heck, maybe they want to get into one of the few remaining spots left in "heaven".

Who knows, but like I said, please try and take the message from these teachings, instead of taknig them all literally leading you to violently disagree with people on a level associated with your ego.

-thanks.