According to an article that appeared with fanfare the other day on foxnews.com, Jesus was probably the son of Mary and a Roman soldier who raped her during the Jewish uprising in Galilee.

It is in his upcoming biography of Jesus, that Paul Verhoeven, director of “Basic Instinct” and “RoboCops” makes the claim. That would simply make Jesus a happy carpenter who worked at Lowe’s or Home Depot, certainly not the Savior of the world.

And I’d just gotten comfortable with his portrayal by American Christianity as a long-haired hippy type who walked around preaching love…