The new map of North America - Page 3

Shiloh · #21 (**permalink**) 11-12-2004, 09:53 PM

That's a funny map.

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Funny part is if he were to comeback for a second worldtour, he'd never make it past airport security.

Things haven't changed much in 2000 years so he'll feel right at home in the 21st century, and people will end up killing him again.

What you say is more profound than humorous to me actually. I always tell people that generally people are no different today than they were pre-Civil Rights Movement or during slavery, the Holocaust or the Crucifix. They tell me I'm foolish. But I think a lot of so-called believers would as soon kill Jesus as they have air to breath.

*Sing* What if God were one of us? *hum*

Edit: My first edit!

Tedminator · #22 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 02:39 PM

Hey! Looks like we'll finally get this debate about Jesus settled.

Maybe

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Court to decide Jesus' existence

From correspondents in Rome
January 25, 2006

AN Italian court will this week ponder the existence of Christ after an atheist accused a priest of misleading the public by presenting Jesus as an historical character.

The atheist, 72-year-old Luigi Cascioli, first filed a complaint against 75-year-old Father Enrico Righi, a parish priest in Bagnoregno, central Italy, in September 2002.

Father Righi had asserted the historical existence of Christ in a parish newsletter.

"This complaint does not wish to contest the freedom of Christians to profess their faith ... but wishes to denounce the abuse that the Catholic Church commits by profiting from its prestige to present historical facts as if they are real when they are only inventions," the atheist said on his website.

The trial, beginning tomorrow, will consider article 661 of the Italian penal code which, under the term "abuse of popular gullibility", sanctions people who mislead others.

Mr Cascioli has said he will withdraw his complaint if he receives proof of the historical existence of Christ.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...E29677,00.html

Joker · #23 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 08:28 PM

I've got three Jesuses in my level 1 ESL class right now.

hobbes · #24 (**permalink**) 02-06-2006, 08:31 PM

Real or not, it's still impressive to have millions of devotees for over a thousand years. I'm getting flashbacks to Big Brother- it doesn't matter whether or not he exists, the minds of the masses make up for it.

That being said, I was very glad to find I was not in Jesusland because I'm sick of born again Christians and I like to use 'eh' a lot.