Cameron contra Christianity

Is today, February 26, 2007, going to be the day when a director of trashy Marxist movie epics disproves Christianity once and for all? <

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Alan Roebuck writes:

When you referred to “a director of trashy Marxist movie epics”, at first it didn’t register. But now that I think of it, Titanic is exactly that: it shows the upper classes as cowardly evil exploiters and the boat’s officers (management) as entirely ineffective at saving lives. The only hero is the proletarian boy.

From AP story, “Scholars, Clergy Slam Jesus Documentary”:

[Archeologist Amos] Kloner also said the filmmakers’ assertions are false.

“It was an ordinary middle-class Jerusalem burial cave,” Kloner said. “The names on the caskets are the most common names found among Jews at the time.”

Archaeologists also balk at the filmmaker’s claim that the James Ossuary _ the center of a famous antiquities fraud in Israel _ might have originated from the same cave. In 2005, Israel charged five suspects with forgery in connection with the infamous bone box.

“I don’t think the James Ossuary came from the same cave,” said Dan Bahat, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University. “If it were found there, the man who made the forgery would have taken something better. He would have taken Jesus.”

I was not aware that people had been charged with forgery in the case of the James Ossuary, which I wrote about at VFR in 2002.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 26, 2007 12:18 PM | Send