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I am so sorry, I didn't mean to infer that I understood the 'good book'. Just that I liked it as a work of literary art and a source of some great turns of phrase. That said it is clearly not a work advocating the immoral. Other fairy tales one can understand, even one's in which the characters are rabbits or creatures of the wild-wood. Understand yes, believe no!
My father always mentioned in wonder that his older brother (my Uncle Bruv, of fond memory) had read Joyce's Ulysses "AND UNDERSTOOD IT!". If you have climbed the same mountain (Uncle Bruv did one or two real ones when expeditioning in the Arctic in 1929) I take my hat off to you (and until the c19 hair cut, that only worn in case of a passing cortege).
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David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
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