"Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity."
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Paulo Coelho, in Stuart Jeffries Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure, The Guardian, 17 March 2013.
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