The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-up in History
April 7th, 2006
The Jesus Papers is a new (apparently) non-fiction book by Michael Baigent explaining that Pontius Pilot did not kill Jesus, but only pretended to, in order to pacify the angry masses that wanted him dead. …
…I don’t have much to say about that really. To me it’s much like what was in the Da Vinci code–interesting as hell*, but entirely beside the point when it comes to my faith in God and my belief about who and what Jesus was.
The reason I’m writing about it is just that I wanted to share what “The Voice” just said about it on CBC: “This pretend crucifixion is a bit of a relief, because all this time I’ve only been pretending to feel guilty for my sins.”
Brilliant, frankly. …this is me laughing heartily.
*reference not intended. It was noticed by the author during editing and removed, but has been resurrected in virtue of its ironic value
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1. | April 7th, 2006 at 8:18 am
Doesn’t seem like it needs a full post, but is an neat addition to the post above. This Micheal guy is on CBC now, and having just been asked why the Vatican is wary of such ideas his response was basically that the Vatican shouldn’t be afraid of them, and he went on to say:
“Any faith that is afraid of ideas isn’t a faith worth preserving.”
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