Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Mark Townsend, author of Jesus Through Pagan Eyes. Though Jesus was often discussed by his contemporaries in a manner suggested by this post's title, the above words do not in fact refer to Jesus, but to me. "Oh, how arrogant!" you might now be thinking. Actually no, I’m merely paraphrasing the comments that have often been made behind my back by people (Christians) who simply can’t cope with the stuff I write. I’m a priest, you see, yet one who has had an almost constant battle with his own religion and the hierarchies within it. From teenage days when, as a young would-be-clergyman, my own parish Curate told me that I should