Jesus, Still MIA
It must be getting close to Easter, says the Anchoress. The I-found-Jesus-stuff crowd is out again.
Anc and others are not impressed by the Discovery Channel’s Jesus Tomb claim.
Dienekes picks apart the Jesus DNA thing and looks forward to a new round of Da Vinci Codism.
Faith will just have to remain mysterious.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 12:17 pm on Monday, February 26, 2007
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February 26th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Titanic director aims to sink Christianity
Jesus Buried In Plain Sight? Ed Morrissey Many people have discussed the supposed discovery of the family tomb of Jesus in a section of Jerusalem. The finding, which forms the basis of a Discovery Channel special next Sunday, purports to
February 26th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
It doesn’t matter if Jesus was in that box or not (not that they’ll ever be able to prove or disprove it). If you can’t have faith in the numinous, what’s the point of religion? Even the idolators of the ancient pagan religions had that, most of all when they were kneeling down to representations in stone and wood. Bones, and ashes, and old boxes don’t mean diddly squat if you believe in something mysterious and bigger than yourself. And smug film makers who think they’re proving something by digging up bones, and ashes, and old boxes are just fooling themselves.
February 26th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Oh, and just for the record, either Jesus married and fathered children just like all young Jewish men were expected to in those days, or he was gay, or he was totally asexual. We’re never going to know. Believers have to decide for themselves whether that’s what matters, or if it was what he had to say to the world.
February 26th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
I wonder what would happen if Cameron did a special questioning whether Mohammed was really a prophet a God or a mad man or a myth? He would have to go into hiding.