[wideawake]

Alex Beam is merely spouting, word for word, the Jesus Seminar's own press.

He's an unthinking mouthpiece who has literally no conception of what he's discussing.

[Aquinasfan]

He's an unthinking mouthpiece who has literally no conception of what he's discussing.

That's literally true, and that's what I find so fascinating. This story passed through the hands of at least one editor, who must also have had literally no conception of what he was reading.