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Italian Court to Decide if Jesus Existed

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:02 pm
by Shoku

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:19 pm
by Ferno
Holy crap!

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

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:35 pm
by 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?!? :P
Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation...the serpent in the garden made me say it!

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Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 6:03 pm
by Ferno
Will Robinson wrote: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

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:20 pm
by Top Gun
Da hell?

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:28 pm
by 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.

Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:06 pm
by Duper
sheesh.. that's just stupid. Even more so the reasoning behind it. goofy old fart. :P

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Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:19 am
by dissent
Will Robinson wrote: Sorry, couldn't resist the temptation...the serpent in the garden made me say it!
Cool !! Here, have an apple ! :wink:

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:54 am
by 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.

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:18 am
by roid
the chewbacca defence doesn't work.

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

Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:25 am
by 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.

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:11 am
by 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. 8)

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:51 pm
by dissent
This is pointless. The Italian court won't have jurisdiction here anyway ... :!: :roll: :!:

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:34 pm
by Duper
Dissent.. not legally no, but the Supreme Court has been heavily exercising \"International Precedance\". Image

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.