What does a dyslexic, agnostic insomniac do? He lies awake all night, wondering if there’s a dog.
In the good old days, the media was cautious about putting forth anti-Christian views. Illustrated Magazine commissioned Bertrand Russell back in the 1950′s to write an article debating the existence of God, but they never the put the article, Is There a God? to print. In that article, Russell compared religious teachings as having similar foundations to a claim that a teapot is orbiting the sun. Simply because it cannot be proven wrong, doesn’t make it true or add any credibility to its claim. Russell’s teapot refutes the general tendency to leave the burdon of proof on the skeptic, rather than the faithful.
But… James Cameron has discovered Jesus! And he doesn’t mind telling the world! Apparently, after he sunk Jack into the ocean behind the Titanic, he found a tomb that contains
several people who share names with THE biblical family. Jesus, Maria, Mariamene (Mary Magdalene), Joseph, Mathew and Judah. Judah is apparently the son of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. (I knew Dan Brown was wrong!) Cameron, along with his director Simcha Jacobavici are claiming that they have had DNA experts prove that the bones discovered in a crypt just outside Jerusalem in 1980 are those of the holy family. I’m not sure what they compared the DNA evidence to in order to draw this conclusion… maybe the Shroud of Turin or Monica’s dress.
Along with this DNA “evidence”, they have statistical probabilities stacking in their favour. Apparently, there is a 2,000,000 to 1 probability of this cluster of names being in one family unit, despite the relatively high probability of each name occurring independently of the others.
Cameron and Jacobavici claim that they are simply providing a public service. Even if the probability was 2 to 1 that this was Jesus and his family they would feel obligated to bring forth the story to the people. I’m sure the several million dollar paycheck had nothing to do with it.
Needless to say, however, the Christian religions are balking at this new found “evidence” of Jesus’s mere mortal status. They haven’t been this upset since the Da Vinci Code theorized similarly that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had at least one child. 
Regardless of how ridiculous it may sound that they are able to draw such conclusions, the documentary will air on March 4 on the Discovery channel. Watch it and judge for yourself.
