Another Heresy? It Must Be Nearly Easter!

Oho, another major Christian Feast coming up... time to jump on the old heresy bandwagon and get some guaranteed publicity.

This latest wheeze is doing the round of all the best blogs: so I shall get in on the act!

Apparently, James Cameron (Producer of Titanic) has announced the discovery of the tomb (occupied) of Jesus, his mother Mary, his "wife" Mary Magdalen and his "son" Judah.

Quite apart from the fact that the remains were actually discovered 27 years ago, without so much as a smidgeon of a suggestion that the bones belonged to the Jesus of Nazareth, the claim to have proved that the remains were those of Jesus Christ through DNA analysis is just laughable...

As Orthometer rightly points out, it brings to mind an old joke:

Two German scripture scholars were touring the Holy Land and they ran across an archaeological dig. They introduced themselves to the lead archaeologist, who, when he found out they were scripture scholars, said that they were about to open a tomb that the scholars would find particularly interesting. When they approached the door of the tomb, they saw that the inscription read: Here Lies Jesus of Nazareth. Breathlessly, they waited for the stone to be removed. Gazing inside, they saw the sarcophagus containing a skeleton. One scholar turned to the other and exclaimed, "Mein Gott! He really did exist!"

;-)

Mantilla-twitch also to the Closed Cafeteria and Open Book (Amy has more detailed debunking... if you really need convincing!)