Letters to the Editor
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Lost Tomb of Jesus
I like pyromania better as I can't spell the other so easily. Ms. Prytania, you seem very educated. And you believe in stories that you don't really believe in. Just like I believe in James Joyce stories or Richard Russo stories.
St. Augustine, however, would be crying. I guess Christianity has turned into the Brothers Grimm.
At any rate, James Cameron, of "Titanic" fame, did a Discovery Channel show on the "Lost Tomb of Jesus." Essentially, a group of scientists and historians of various stripes claim, and I think they are quite right, that they found the Jesus family tomb. It was wedged into and under a Jerusalem apartment building. They went into the original, and then were chased out by the government. They then investigated the history of the tomb. The Israeli government preserved the 'ossuaries' - small boxes of bones used in ancient Palestine, in a warehouse, and handled them pretty well, though there was one theft.
To make a long story short, through carbon dating, historians, DNA experts, linquists, mathmeticians, and just plain common sense, they deterimined this tomb WAS the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth, his mother, some other family members, his wife, and his son.
You can buy the DVD on the internet. As an atheist, I believe Jesus existed. However, the bible stories about him are second hand, written dozens of years later. They are jammed into the bible with many contradictions, which certainly show the Bible is not 'inspired by God' but written by men. Unless of course, God makes massive amounts of mistakes, that is...
But I do not believe he was the son of God. Seems pretty reasonable to me, as there is no evidence of that.