After the brilliance of his 80s films The Terminator and Aliens (The Abyss is okay), came that weepy, infantile, contrived 'romance' Titanic which I thought would forever be James Cameron's worst work. I was wrong.
But at least I'll know to stay away from this stinker (though it's made out to be a 'documentary' - people should stop abusing that word, btw):
<b>Director James Cameron claims to have found THE Jesus' tomb, where jeebus, <i>his wife mary magdalene and their son</i> were buried.</b> And the whining commenced.
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/cameron_grave/
James Cameron finds grave of Jesus & Son
- http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article...ctor/article.do
Scorn poured on director's 'coffin of Christ' theory
- http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/na...y-top-headlines
New Cameron blockbuster? He found Jesus!
The last two links have the terrified 'Persecuted R Us' gang (all from America as far as I can see) responding in their usual manner in the comments section. Suppose that reaction was worth this whole gag.
To think christians are arguing that jeebus in a tomb can't be possible by referring to the babble which says that 500 people saw him resurrect. That's called circular reasoning, though the implication of this is lost on babble-fans.
What's also lost on them is that biblical (NT) scholars and many learned theologians have long since admitted that the earliest christians - living from before the time of the 4 canonical gospels - never knew of a resurrected jeebus.
So basically, there's more chance of Cameron's unlikely spiel being true than the tale of the miraculously resurrecting gawdman.
Unfortunately, this new 'proof' for jeebus has no takers because it doesn't prove The Jeebus of The (currently official) Babble. It's like how the 'James brother of Jeebus' Ossuary didn't do it for the Catholic Church (even before it was found out to be just another forgery of what was initially hailed as a biblical artifact), because the Roman Church never accepted their jeebus as having had a brother anyway. The catholics were understandably dismissive or even angry about the artifact, others were excited right until the results disappointed - again.
However, this latest in the stream of also-soon-to-be-discarded 'evidence' is pleasing nobody, except maybe lovers of The Da Vinci Code. But then, they're easy to please.
At least most of the news reports on Cameron's documentary do mention that the names of jesus, mary, and whatever the kid in this tomb was called, were among the most common names in that period of history in that part of the world. This much has been clarified at any rate.
The flock is going: 'Drat. That jeebus has left no <i>correct</i> evidence of himself - the kind that matches up with the mutually contradicting 4 canonical gospels. All people keep finding is forgeries, and stuff that goes against present christian theology.'
And thus, once again, christians withdraw into the seclusion of their faith to find their jeebus (the one they insist had been corporeal at some point) in the only places they can: within the covers of the current babble and in their imaginations.
But at least I'll know to stay away from this stinker (though it's made out to be a 'documentary' - people should stop abusing that word, btw):
<b>Director James Cameron claims to have found THE Jesus' tomb, where jeebus, <i>his wife mary magdalene and their son</i> were buried.</b> And the whining commenced.
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/cameron_grave/
James Cameron finds grave of Jesus & Son
- http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article...ctor/article.do
Scorn poured on director's 'coffin of Christ' theory
- http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/na...y-top-headlines
New Cameron blockbuster? He found Jesus!
The last two links have the terrified 'Persecuted R Us' gang (all from America as far as I can see) responding in their usual manner in the comments section. Suppose that reaction was worth this whole gag.
To think christians are arguing that jeebus in a tomb can't be possible by referring to the babble which says that 500 people saw him resurrect. That's called circular reasoning, though the implication of this is lost on babble-fans.
What's also lost on them is that biblical (NT) scholars and many learned theologians have long since admitted that the earliest christians - living from before the time of the 4 canonical gospels - never knew of a resurrected jeebus.
So basically, there's more chance of Cameron's unlikely spiel being true than the tale of the miraculously resurrecting gawdman.
Unfortunately, this new 'proof' for jeebus has no takers because it doesn't prove The Jeebus of The (currently official) Babble. It's like how the 'James brother of Jeebus' Ossuary didn't do it for the Catholic Church (even before it was found out to be just another forgery of what was initially hailed as a biblical artifact), because the Roman Church never accepted their jeebus as having had a brother anyway. The catholics were understandably dismissive or even angry about the artifact, others were excited right until the results disappointed - again.
However, this latest in the stream of also-soon-to-be-discarded 'evidence' is pleasing nobody, except maybe lovers of The Da Vinci Code. But then, they're easy to please.
At least most of the news reports on Cameron's documentary do mention that the names of jesus, mary, and whatever the kid in this tomb was called, were among the most common names in that period of history in that part of the world. This much has been clarified at any rate.
The flock is going: 'Drat. That jeebus has left no <i>correct</i> evidence of himself - the kind that matches up with the mutually contradicting 4 canonical gospels. All people keep finding is forgeries, and stuff that goes against present christian theology.'
And thus, once again, christians withdraw into the seclusion of their faith to find their jeebus (the one they insist had been corporeal at some point) in the only places they can: within the covers of the current babble and in their imaginations.