27 February 2007

The unrisen

I don't know why so many Christian Evangelists seem to be upset about the new documentary by James Cameron that purports to unearth the tomb of Jesus and his family. Some two decades ago I made a couple of business trips to Israel and made a trip to some of the so called holy sites. Everywhere you go there is a church which claims to contain the actual site of the crucifixion (the supposed actual place is marked with a round, silver ring) or that claim to house the place of Jesus's birth. Why can't they just build a church on top of the tomb and draw in the simple-minded? It could be a nice little earner.

I suppose that what they are really upset about is that Cameron asserts that Jesus's body is in the tomb which would mean that the alleged son of God did not literally rise from the dead. Do you think that they have ever heard of metaphor?

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