ROME -- Lawyers for a small-town parish priest have been ordered to appear in court next week after the Roman Catholic cleric was accused of unlawfully asserting what many people take for granted: that Jesus Christ existed.
The Rev. Enrico Righi was named in a 2002 complaint filed by Luigi Cascioli after Righi wrote in a parish bulletin that Jesus did indeed exist, and that he was born of a couple named Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem and lived in Nazareth.
Cascioli, a lifelong atheist, claims that Righi violated two Italian laws by making the assertion: so-called "abuse of popular belief" in which someone fraudulently deceives people; and "impersonation" in which someone gains by attributing a false name to someone.
Cascioli says that for 2,000 years the Roman Catholic Church has been deceiving people by furthering the fable that Christ existed, and says the church has been gaining financially by impersonating as Christ someone by the name of John of Gamala, the son of Judas from Gamala......
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That kind of messes with the whole creed thing we say on Sundays.......I beleive in one lord, John of Gamala. Hmmm...... I am always amazed by how much publicity this kind of negative portrayal of Christianity gets......strike that.....actually I am not surprised. I mean, how often are we spoon fed the "work" of such groups like the Jesus Seminar who continually try to undercut 2000 years of Christian belief by asserting that Jesus was a wandering sage or that the Gospels only contain a few quotes directly from Jesus. Well, there will obviously be more stories like this in the future, particularly when the Duh Vinci Code comes out in theaters later this year. (And yes I meant duh!)
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