Absolutely. As a picture of life in 1st century Judea, I understand it's rather more accurate than some of our number would feel comfortable with - and many, many orders of magnitude more accurate than anything in the bible.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
