About That Dead Jesus Story …

Last updated on: March 5, 2007 at 7:36 am by Fr. Joseph Huneycutt

About That Dead Jesus Story … 2007-03-05T07:36:00-06:00 Fr. Joseph Huneycutt

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I don’t have Cable, so y’all will have to suffer the show without me. You know the show — the overly hyped Discovery Channel’s airing of James “JC” Cameron’s earth shakingly titanic discovery which claims mo’ betta nuttiness (just in time for the Bunny … the Bunny … ewh, I love the Bunny)?

Which does, of course, raise a question: If Cameron’s claims are true, what affect will it have on chocolate sales this time next month?

Though I wish the man no harm, my bent mind keeps creeping back to the quip about Nietzsche, paraphrased here:

“Jesus is Dead.”
— JC

“JC is Dead.”
— Jesus

Some stuff …

In Canada, ignorance abounds …

In the New Testament, when Jesus was asked how to attain eternal life, he said follow the commandments, particularly the command to “love your neighbour as yourself.” That is the essence of Christianity. He did not say “believe that my mother was a virgin.”
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Y’all? Sigh.

One of the good things that usually comes out of such wicky-wacky-moo-moo is that sound minded, right-believing folks step up to the plate to introduce reason — even honest-to-goodness truth — into otherwise vapid discussions. Then there’s guys like the one quoted above who truly challenge us. We have a lot of work to do.

For instance, here Pastor Ann speaks the truth …

The Rev. Ann Van Cleef, pastor of Orient Congregational United Church of Christ, said she would “absolutely not” preach about the movie. “I preach out of the Bible, which has truth in it,” she said. “I might save this one for a sermon on sin.”

Then there’s the facts to disperse scientific darkness …

Likewise, the so-called family tomb of Jesus, originally discovered in 1980 was immediately dismissed as to it authenticity by credible archeologists and biblical scholars. It took two filmmakers looking to make a buck and take a slap at Christianity to bring this story back to life. When the tomb was discovered in 1980, a team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority was dispatched to examine its authenticity. Archeologist Amos Kloner summed up the findings of the team saying, “It was an ordinary middle-class Jerusalem burial cave. The names on the caskets are the most common names found among Jews at the time.” Commenting on Cameron and Jacobovici’s “documentary” Kloner says, “It’s impossible, it’s nonsense. There is no likelihood that Jesus and His relatives had a family tomb. They were a Galilee family with no ties in Jerusalem.”
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Gary Burge,professor of New Testament at Wheaton College: “This is really a brilliant example of archaeological sensationalism. It happens again and again in the Holy Land that people win their 15 minutes of fame by discovering some new burial cave.”

Part of the collateral damage caused by the loss of the idea of absolute truth in our culture is the rise of ideologically driven pseudo-science masquerading as fact-based truth. Claims made by the scientific community concerning the absolute fact of evolution, global warming, and the so-called “gay gene” which causes people to be born homosexuals, and the communities utter disdain for any dissenting voice demonstrates the total ethical bankruptcy of their discipline. I guess we can now add some archeologists to the growing list of scientists who resemble the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz who kept his standing in the community by projecting an overblown and totally made up image.
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And, just when it seemed sane Christians live only in Africa …

“We are millions of us who believe in Jesus Christ but we don’t subscribe to such imaginary lies that belittle the world’s saviour.”
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Comes news of Jesus and Mary … currently on tour.

Did I mention that we have a lot of work to do?

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