When you look at pictures of Jesus He's always wandering around ancient
Israel in a sheet. It never rains there and you never hear of anyone coughing
or getting consumption or anything like that and no one has a job there because
all they do is stand around and eat manna and shake their fists and go to
crucifixions. Anytime Jesus got hungry all He had to do was walk up the road to
a fig tree or an orange tree and have His fill. If He wanted a pint He could
wave His hand over a big glass and there was the pint. Or He could visit Mary
Magdalene and her sister, Martha, and they'd give Him His dinner no questions
asked... It's a good thing Jesus decided to be born Jewish in that warm place
because if he was born in Limerick he'd catch the consumption and be dead in a
month and there wouldn't be any Catholic Church and there wouldn't be any
Communion or Confirmation and we wouldn't have to learn the catechism and write
compositions about Him.

                                             Frank McCourt, "Angela's ashes"