Sunday, March 4, 2007

He Is Not Here (cf. Luke 24:6)

UPDATE 2 - Jimmy Akin does the same with Catholic details.
UPDATE - outstanding, just-the-facts analysis from Jay Cost at RealClearPolitics.

I'm grateful that the coverage (promotion) of James Cameron's 'discovery' of the tomb of Jesus seems to be fizzling. There is as much coverage of this as a non-story as there is hype. I like Fr. Larry Gearhart's (perhaps tongue-in-cheek) theory, though.

Does it seem like the standards of science and evidence that the mass media uses are proportional to the agenda they're selling reporting? Did the 'Da Vinci Code' teach us anything about learning faith and history from novelists and blockbuster-moviemakers?

Junk science and phony religion might make good entertainment, and may not influence the faith of practicing believers, but it could very well affect those with weak, little, or no faith.

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