If you watched or only heard about the Discovery Channel program on ‘The Lost Tomb of Jesus’, I hope you did not lose any sleep over it. This is just another late but failed attempt at sowing seeds of doubt …
In 2003 I gave a public lecture in Kingston, Jamaica, which provided, inter alia, a rebuttal of the ‘dying and rising Gods/Saviours’ thesis. (see my book Revelations on Ras Tafari, 2008, first edition, 81-87). Significantly, I invited two lecturers …
I am quite fussy about how language is used and while I am quite open to criticism, I take strong objection to being labeled with words concerning which a critic refuses to provide a clear definition.
“Religion is the greatest source of evil in the world. More wars have been fought and more blood have been shed in the name of God than for any other cause.”
(many skeptics, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, et al)
Many years ago, I visited the office of a prominent umbrella church group and saw on one of the walls that now-famous popular quotation from Mahatma Gandhi: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the …