The Lost Tomb, Blind Faith, and Ignorance Interviewed

United States
March 5, 2007 6:48pm CST
Well the big show was last night on the Discovery Channel, did you watch the show? Did you see anything in the show to change your mind about the problems created by religion? There was nothing in the program that was conclusive about much of anything. Speculation is always speculation, but as a co-writer discerned, it takes religion to make good people bad, and Christianity corrupts our inteligence and we should stop teaching as we have been taught. Where was the problem that was so profoundly exposed? It wasn't in the show the Lost Tomb of Jesus, you can watch that 10 times, it just isn't there. But if you watched the interviews with Ted Koppel you might have been exposed to the problem in the second of the two interviews. Did you watch the religious replies to the supposed information in the film and how they responded? They wouldn't allow anything to change their beliefs, they would not let any real true evidence change their minds on anything that challenges their belief structure. It reminded me of people learning that the Earth revolved around the sun trying to give proof that this is true, being told that the Sun revolves around the Earth or die. How about dying because you know that the world is actually round but everyone wants to believe as they did that the Earth is flat? These radicals that challenged public opinion often found themselves killed, just like Jesus. I hope that telling the truth is no longer a capital offense. I hope we have evolved beyond that stage in our growth as humans. What punctuated the night was when these leaders explained how they remain ignorant to the truth by "Blind Faith" Now I think it is time that we take another look at this "Blind Faith" and help these people to hear and see and give them a voice to speak the truth and only the truth. Who helps people to see when they are blind, and to hear when they are deaf and to talk when the dumb have been forced to remain silent. Do you see the cure to our problem in the parables that Jesus spoke? Do you see that it is the telling of the truth that must be allowed. Do you hear that the truth is not found in Churches by leaders that preach ignorance? To ignore sin is to cause sin. To make the world a better place we need to expose sin and tell the truth.
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• United States
6 Mar 07
You wrote many words but you said nothing. I saw the show nothing has been proven, at this time, to change anything in the Christian faith. It will fuel a lot of controversy and all the experts on both side will try to make their point the right one. I still think it is a lot of hype started by the movie guy to promote what will probably be his next film.
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• United States
6 Mar 07
My words about the show concur with the words that you wrote about the show... The real meat of my post was about the interview with Ted Koppel, did you see those interviews? Particularly the one with the religious scholars. They prove the point about how their Christian Religion dumbs down our society. It's a curse for America to continue on this path that hasn't worked for over 4,000 years. How long will these people keep trying to make a false religion work?
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@Thomas73 (1467)
• Switzerland
6 Mar 07
I unfortunately didn't watch this programme, but it looks like there's a lot of hype about it. It seems to me that the whole story is just yet again another money-making ploy for those who worked on the show, and that there isn't much more to it than that. What if it's a hoax like the crop circles and such? Religion -- to me at least -- is a hoax in itself, and two wrongs won't make a right. This seems to be a 2,000-year-old Jewish tomb and there's a Jesus in it; big deal. It would have been nice to see a bit more proper research into it instead of a dubious statistical analysis that seems flawed from the start. After the religious Jesus and the historical Jesus, we have now a statistical Jesus. This looks like more misinformation to confuse already pretty confused minds. What appals me, though, is the reaction of some believers who are ready to blindly reject any evidence that could be shown to them. They shouldn't get their knickers in a twist so fast. This tomb doesn't look like evidence of anything at all.
• United States
6 Mar 07
I have not seen it yet. I recorded it on my Tivo and will watch it either tonight after the kids go to bed or tomorrow. :)
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• United States
6 Mar 07
I have not seen it yet. I recorded it on my Tivo and will watch it either tonight after the kids go to bed or tomorrow. :)