Reply #105: Not how stupid they are; how blasphemous. Christ was born a poor man and

[Joe Chi Minh]

As the Good Book says straight out, Christ chose the poor to be rich in faith, lived as an indigent (in fact, he was looked after much of the time by a group of women - most of who presumably would not have been in much a position to act as providers).

When Christ was not vehemently excoriating the respectable, rich theocrats of his day, he was often trying to teach them, but, it seems that they generally tended to be far less apt pupils than the Samaritans and sinners, held by the former to be religious outcasts. (Having difficulty tearing myself away from the Blue Brothers on the TV, at the moment, as I haven't seen it for ages. Theme from Peter Gunn on at the moment for you oldies).