sotto voce

But the suggestion that it is Thursday today could be supposed to inure unsuspecting readers to the notion that there is an absolute seven day week, on one day of which phoney Christians make phoney pretensions of Christianity. Which could suggest that there is belief in real Christianity, that, in the absence of even the smallest effort to persuade otherwise, is indeed incompatible with homosexuality.

la70119

Exept there was nothing in the Mar Saba letter that the young man was completely naked: it was recorded he was "wearing a cloth over his naked body."

He was wearing something, and would have been completely naked if he wasn't.

Maybe it was Morton Smith's bringing up the possiblilty of a "physical union" that was denied by Clement of Alexandria in the letter itself.

mountainman

I prefer the hypothesis that the Mar Saba letter was in fact an ancient Monty Pythonish satire of a gay Jesus and his gay apostles written by educated dissidents against the "plain and simple religion of the christians".