Now this is sure to raise the hackles of some...

New book says Jesus was short, unattractive

And before anybody gets really upset - or maybe this will really upset some people - the book is written two Catholic journalists backed by the Vatican and published in Italy.

Here are a few more tidbits:
Jesus Christ was born neither on December 25 nor in a manger with an ox and an ass for warmth. Furthermore, he was short and - according to modern aesthetics - not very nice to look at....Jesus lived into his forties, around 10 years longer than the Bible suggests, and his father Joseph is more likely to have been an affluent and well-respected architect than a humble carpenter...The 10 commandments were neither dictated to Moses by God, the book says, nor were they ever engraved on stone tablets.