Too Funny
I'm sure you have all heard about this:
Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had a son named Judah, died, and stayed dead, says Simcha Jacobovici, an award-winning filmmaker. A Discovery Channel documentary on his findings, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, will be televised March 4.
As Christianity Today puts it:
"The only thing more ridiculous than filmmakers' claims that a tomb outside Jerusalem once held the bones of Jesus of Nazareth, Mary Magdalene, a son of Jesus, and other family members is some of the media coverage those claims have garnered.
It's hard to top James Cameron when he says things like, "This is the biggest archeological story of the century. It's absolutely not a publicity stunt." But some media outlets seem to be trying hard to do so."
So CT is sponsoring a contest:What media outlet has the most credulous, exaggerated, or otherwise wacky report on the "tomb of Jesus"? Entries (use the feedback form below) are due by Friday, March 9. The winner will receive a one-year subscription to Christianity Today (or one of our sister publications) and a copy of The Tomb of Jesus (the tie-in book to the Discovery Channel "documentary"). The winner will be determined purely at the whim of one or more editors here at CT.
So don't take the contest too seriously. We hope you're not taking the documentary too seriously, either.
posted by Sherry W @ 9:50 AM
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2 Comments:
For a comprehensive and scholarly rebuttal of the film’s evidence please visit ExtremeTheology.com.
Read and hear the evidence for yourself.
Not only don't I take the documentary seriously or offensively, I hear the same dull *thud* of boredom at its inanity as I did last year (?) when the so called Judas epistle or whatever was supposed to "shake our faith."
*yawn* I mean... if they were expecting some sort of sensation and history changing controversy, they must be disappointed.
Same thing with the DaVinci code thing. I mean, think about it, all the fuss and still, it's so dull and "yesterday"... and it has come and gone with nary a ripple, and the faith remains and grows.
Now, for some good reading, in Feb 2007 National Geographic, Voices column page 33 is an interview by John Horgan ("agnostic increasingly disturbed by relgion's influence on human affairs") of Francis Collins, the Christian who leads the Human Genome Project. Francis Collins does a lovely and sincere job of answering the standard challenges.
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