Reverend Professor Richard Burridge has recanted for the past sins of the church in denouncing Brian.
Brian is now back on the list for canonisation and tipped to make rapid progress after earlier setbacks in lower divisions. We wish him well (and a good goal average) in the forthcoming season.
Muggeridge and Stockwood (see video) are now wholly discredited.
Burridge is himself mistaken, of course, but we forgive him for that. Better a penitent sinner who has wholly missed the point than an unpenitent believer who otherwise displays outward (but misleading) signs of a capacity for sentience.
Of course, Life of Brian is blasphemous you idiot. Cleese and Palin were just being polite because blasphemy is against the law. The poor old fairies at the bottom of my garden have no redress when I defame them (as I often do) other than to pour magic dust all over my porridge (which they often do). If I insult your imaginary friend then that should be exactly the same kind of redress you are entitled to; an imaginary one.
