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January 05, 2006

Not all silly lawsuits are American UPDATED

Someone with a complex

An Italian court is tackling Jesus -- and whether the Roman Catholic Church may be breaking the law by teaching that he existed 2,000 years ago.

The case pits against each other two men in their 70s, who are from the same central Italian town and even went to the same seminary school in their teenage years.

The defendant, Enrico Righi, went on to become a priest writing for the parish newspaper. The plaintiff, Luigi Cascioli, became a vocal atheist who, after years of legal wrangling, is set to get his day in court later this month.

"I started this lawsuit because I wanted to deal the final blow against the Church, the bearer of obscurantism and regression," Cascioli told Reuters. [...]

"In my book, The Fable of Christ, I present proof Jesus did not exist as a historic figure. He must now refute this by showing proof of Christ's existence," Cascioli said.

Hmmmm. Let's have lawsuits challenging the faithful to offer proof of:What a sad little man it is to use the courts to get what he can't by persuasion.

UPDATE Whoops..broken link at top now fixed! Thank you, Strider.

Posted by Darleen at January 5, 2006 07:00 AM

Comments

The link at the top of the story leads back to this blog. Did you mean to link to the story?

(The fact that the link is the words "a complex" I will leave to the armchair psychologists)

Posted by: Strider at January 5, 2006 01:21 PM

Not only is He mentioned in the synoptic gospels, MMLJ, but also in the Gnostic Gospels written about the Second or Third Century such as:

The Gospel of Truth
The Gospel of Thomas
The Gospel of Philip
The Book of Thomas the Contender
The Gospel of the Egyptians
The Apocalypse of Paul
The (First ) Apocalypse of James
The (Second ) Apocalypse of James
The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
The Gospel of Mary

Check 'em all out at: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html

Posted by: Carl W. Goss at January 6, 2006 11:59 PM