We were listening to this Nicholas Wade interview en voiture on the radio. Puffin so engrossed in Mr Wade’s thesis we had to sit in the dark and listen til it ended. On entering the home he was wrestling with the concept of religious belief. “I don’t believe Jesus was the son of God,” he said. “I think he just said that.” Some unlacing of shoes and pontification later he became impassioned announcing there are huge gaps. For example he says for all we know he wasn’t born on the 25th at all. He could very well have been born on the 27th, another shoe off rising to resounding declaration and horror “he might even have been born in November”.

I loved how November was the biggest affront over any other troubling aspect of the existence of God.