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Gon’ End up a Big Ol’ Pile of…

Well, you know the song.

So they dug up Jesus, eh?  Well that is going to make for some strange bedfellows, I think.  Atheists and Christians together saying “These aren’t the bones of Jesus!” For very different reasons mind-the former wanting him not to exist at all, and the latter not wanting his remains to be found.

So, already lots of scholars are coming up with reasons as to why this couldn’t be the tomb of Jesus (without resorting to saying he didn’t exist that is) but here’s the real troubling thing:

1.) Some Christians are arguing that it couldn’t be Jesus because it goes against scripture.  Look, I believe in the Good Book, and Faith and Knowledge are two different things-but you can’t say It can’t be what it is because the Book says it isn’t.  If they are the Bones of Christ, well you have to be ready to accept that and move forward.  Having faith doesn’t preclude the idea that you could be wrong, it only means you believe you are right even without lots of evidence.  This is a terrible argument, and a worse way to think in general I think.

2.) Because there is a “Mary” buried with Jesus, along with a “Son,” this lends “credibility” to Da Vinci Code People.  Now, I say Da Vinci Code people because the Da Vinci Code itself is a work of fiction, made up, and has an author we can find and talk to and he’ll say “it’s fiction, I made it up.”  Da Vinci Code people are obsessed with the idea of turning Christ, and the church, on its head with a Watergate like scandal of spiritual proportions.  So now this guy, who had a dad named Joseph and a wife named Mary, a work of fiction that is admittedly a work of fiction has “credibility” for being real. 

Look, there is a historical Jesus (or at least some of us believe there is) and there is the character Jesus-that is to say the idea of Jesus used in stories.  They are different.  So evidence of one does not support the existence of the other, capice?
Personally, I’m wondering if the History Channel has been watching old Simpsons episodes, and that this may be just an advertising stunt to get people to shop at a new mall where “The prices are stripped to the bone!”