I’m very skeptical about the recent “discovery” of the “tomb of Jesus”. The evidence seems worse than thin — more a fantasy than a discovery. The Christian Science Monitor reports:
The makers of a new TV documentary claim to have uncovered the biggest archaeological story of the century – the tomb of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. But several archaeologists and biblical scholars challenge the evidence. One calls it “much ado about nothing much.” …
If the evidence proved convincing, it would represent a challenge to the New Testament and the foundations of Christianity.
Really?
Catholic League President William Donohue thinks the claims are an assault on Christianity:
Not a Lenten season goes by without some author or TV program seeking to cast doubt on the divinity of Jesus and/or the Resurrection.
Brent Bozell’s conservative CNS News writes:
For Christians around the world, the claims in the documentary threaten the foundation of their faith system. If the documentary’s claims are true, the evidence undermines the core tenets of Christian faith, most notably that Jesus was resurrected three days after his crucifixion and later ascended into Heaven.
“As a born-again Christian, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is an immovable foundation of what I know is true,” Randy Thomasson, president of the Campaign for Children and Families, said in a statement.
Does he really mean to say that the foundation of his faith is so feeble that the discovery an ancient tomb might cause the whole thing to collapse?
Please, take a few moments and read the Sermon on the Mount. Or take a little longer, and read all four Gospels.
Do the fundamentalists really believe the Sermon and all the teachings in the Gospels are worthless unless Jesus bodily ascended into the heavens? Is their faith truly so fragile?
Spink Nogales | 02-Mar-07 at 11:39 pm | Permalink
If you have a suitcase full of clothes, and you were led to believe that all were freshly laundered, then when you are unpacking you find one item is soiled, would you throw only the soiled item in the washing machine, or would you re-wash all the clothes that were in the suitcase?
Spink Nogales | 02-Mar-07 at 11:59 pm | Permalink
Approx. 90 years after Jesus, the new Christians were a tribe of fanatical zealots, like the people who followed the ‘Grateful Dead’, or the people who go to ‘Star Trek’ conventions. At least one family was so fanatical and ‘smoked up’ on weed that they took on the names of their idols, and named their families in the same manner.
Cased Solved.
Now can we get back to oppressing women and homosexuals?