Court Demands Proof that Jesus Lived
• Catholic
Father Enrico Righi is being sued by Signor Luigi Cascioli because the former denounced the latter for saying that Jesus Christ is a myth.
Signor Cascioli’s one-man campaign came to a head at a court hearing last April when he lodged his accusations of “abuse of popular credulity” and “impersonation”, both offences under the Italian penal code. He argued that all claims for the existence of Jesus from sources other than the Bible stem from authors who lived “after the time of the hypothetical Jesus” and were therefore not reliable witnesses.
Signor Cascioli maintains that early Christian writers confused Jesus with John of Gamala, an anti-Roman Jewish insurgent in 1st-century Palestine. Church authorities were therefore guilty of “substitution of persons”.
Gaetano Mautone the judge hearing the case has ordered Father Righi to appear and prove that Jesus actually existed.
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Posted by: kellybernard | January 4, 2006 3:57 PM