Italian Court to Decide if Jesus Existed

[Shoku]

Check it out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060105/od_ ... on_court_2

[Ferno]

Holy crap!

just when i thought this world couldn't get any wierder.

[Will Robinson]

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.

Who wants to guess which one was molested as a choir boy by a pedo-priest?!?
Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation...the serpent in the garden made me say it!

[Ferno]

Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation...the serpent in the garden made me say it!

and you were dumb enough to repeat it.

/poke poke

<3

[Top Gun]

Da hell?

[Behemoth]

\"It would take a miracle to win,\" he joked.

Heh, i find it funny that all around the world people are still the same, Cascioli is yet another example of a \"fanatic\" fighting the opposite fanatic's views to further his own.. To be expected in debate-based areas like court i guess.

[Duper]

sheesh.. that's just stupid. Even more so the reasoning behind it. goofy old fart.

[dissent]

Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation...the serpent in the garden made me say it!

Cool !! Here, have an apple !

[fyrephlie]

Cascioli's book sounds intriguing... since he says he PROVED that Jesus didn't exist. I wonder if it's in just Italian... I wanna know what his proof is.

[roid]

the chewbacca defence doesn't work.

edit: OMG wiki i love you!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense

[fyrephlie]

Although, a multi-hundered paged book about Chewbacca being used as proof of Jesus' non-existence would be great, especially if it were in italian.

[Repo Man]

A popular book of the early 19th century Historic Doubts Relative To Jesus Of Nazareth, whose arguments are still echoed by many skeptics today, used Hume's methods of knowledge to prove that it was highly unlikely that Jesus ever existed in the first place. Richard Whatley (1787-1863) replies to this book in a classic essay Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte. Whatley applies Hume's methods of knowledge to Napolean and concludes that Napoleon probably never really existed either.

A tremendous tour de force: Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte.

P.S. It is especially amusing to consider that Napoleon was still alive at the time this essay was written.

[dissent]

This is pointless. The Italian court won't have jurisdiction here anyway ...

[Duper]

Dissent.. not legally no, but the Supreme Court has been heavily exercising \"International Precedance\".

And with thier tendancy to favor the ACLU, (who I'm sure is all over this like flies on poo) it won't be long before we see this in our courts as well.