Prove Christ exists, judge orders priest

[Aeternitas]

Prove Christ exists, judge orders priest

Source: Times (UK) (1-2-05)

An Italian judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed.

The case against Father Enrico Righi has been brought in the town of Viterbo, north of Rome, by Luigi Cascioli, a retired agronomist who once studied for the priesthood but later became a militant atheist.
Signor Cascioli, author of a book called The Fable of Christ, began legal proceedings against Father Righi three years ago after the priest denounced Signor Cascioli in the parish newsletter for questioning Christ’s historical existence.

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[Milesian]

Strange request. Even historians seem settled on the fact that Jesus existed.
Whether he was actually the son of God is something else, but that a man named Jesus existed is pretty much a given in most circles.

What other historical figure's existence must we now prove?
Buddha? Rameses? Alexander the Great? Perhaps we need to prove history itself existed. There is a point when healthy skepticism descends into the realms of the bizarre. At which point a person starts to question reality itself.
After that, the subject is usually comitted to a mental asylum

[Corvin]

I remember in Paris once I saw in a wall

God proved than Jean-Paul Sartre does not Exists!
(Sartre proved ( !!! ) that God was not existing in real life).

Back to reality now, it is absolutely stupid to try to prove a belief!
If Jesus was existing or not this is a subject of historic review and definetelly not of a court, but in any case cannot any rationalist or a priest put proofs on this subject deeply rooted to belief since the borders of science and religion become clamsy enough to be undistinguishable.

With respects
Corvin Von Amber

Originally Posted by Aeternitas

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I don't understand, atheist or agnostic? Cascioli doesn't exists. This book is a hoax like Da Vinci's Code, o.k?