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Pat McCullough has written a response to my response to his earlier posts, clarifying what points he agrees with me on, and what he actually had in mind when he talked about \u201cfutility.\u201d See too Brian LePort\u2019s round-up of and comments on the discussion up until that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4643,4652,4658,4660,5677,10870],"class_list":["post-14140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-jesus","tag-historians","tag-historical-jesus","tag-historiography","tag-history","tag-jesus","tag-scholars"],"yoast_head":"\n
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