Oh my goodness! The Rant is a GO!

I just watched that show on discovery channel  "The Lost Tomb of Jesus". I think that was a great show. It was very interesting and it was very compelling to me. It was also just as enlightening watching the after show which was "The Lost Tomb of Jesus - A Critical Look". Ted Koepel and a bunch of experts throwing semantics that are pretty much irrelevant to what the film maker was trying to accomplish.

If you didn't watch it then shame on you.  Why shame on you? Because I know all you sucker heads. If you are reading this then I am confident I know what your standpoint is on this thing and I think all of you are smart enough that you would have WANTED to see it just for your own curiosity.

What did I get out of it? That people (in general) really would rather not put any time or effort into  Jesus as a man right now. That it is just too touchy and that there are many more things they would rather talk about other than the idea that Jesus could have been a normal guy. And if anyone of you says "the bible says" in a responce to me or this post you should be warned that I might just slap you! Yes even you Mom! You know where I stand on that and if you ever plan to say to me "Because the bible says so" then I am going to smack you in the mouth and steal your car, your personal electronics and anything you own running on electricity or anything invented AFTER the electric lightbulb was first sold commercialy that uses technology based on physics. Because the bible says the world is flat and that it is the center of the universe and if you beleive that then you shouldn't be allowed to use ANYTHING based on gravity. And EVERYTHING IS BASED ON GRAVITY! So lets just avoid that whole thing cause I don't have enough time to drive around turning people Amish against their will. Love ya!

So there was this angry little man with glasses who was one of the panel "experts". I want to make a special point about him. He called himself a scientist and made a special note of how he is a personal friend of one of the scientists mentioned in the documentary and that he "Absolutely refuses to believe that Mary of Magdelan was called Mariamne".

As soon as he said that the National Academy of Sciences should have swooped in like the spanish inquisition and slapped in across the face with a trout and taken away his credentials. He is no longer a scientist and once I find his name, (right now it appears he was a fill in for someone listed in the credits whom we did not see) I will be sure to send an e-mail to SOMEONE over his head and point that out. It was just rediculous. I REFUSE TO BELEIVE THAT! Ok then you are not allowed to call yourself a scientist. You are now a lobbyist. That is all you are allowed to do is assert your personal point of view based on what someone else tells you. GOOD BYE SCIENCE FOR YOU ASSHEAD!

 Next I would like to say I am a little disapointed in Ted Koepel! He badgered a point so badly that he began to look ignorant. He kept bugging the filmmaker about the added dramatizations of Jesus's life and how these little dramitizations were unfairly influencing the viewer.

Well, I don't know about you guys but the Blonde Haired Blue eyed Scruffy beard Ted Nugent lookin Jesus I have seen my whole life are pretty much a dramatization, in fact I would say BOLD FACED LIE, about what Jesus really looked like. But noone seems to care about that. Reasonable people know that Jesus wasn't Ted Nugents twin brother, we just don't have to talk about that anymore now do we.

Come on Ted, I distinctly remember watching YOU on TV years on end putting your personal spin on stories while you were reporting them. Calling scenes montrous and terrible and infathomable attrocities. Well those statements are personal dramatizations based on your opinion, but it was OK for YOU to do it. Well maybe the goose and the gander really do have different standards they have to live up to. Otherwise you would have simply said, "There are a bunch of non living humans and parts of those humans scattered randomly all about me in the scene you are seeing here today. It is commonly held by those around me in positions of authority but not yet emprically proven that this situation has been caused by a bomb of some sort exploding at some point today".

But that is again pedantic.

So what if Jesus was a normal guy who had a wife and kids. I actually find that very comforting. I don't want to worship harry potter ok. I don't. The poof here it is god has always bothered me.

I would like to think that since I am created in gods image, that god is in fact pretty damn smart. I don't like the magician god. POOF here it all is. No way. If god was going to make a world full of things then astrophysics has a pretty good model of how it all came together. The models can't say that it was absolutely random, so there is no way of saying god didn't influence it. If god wanted to cover a ball of dirt with critters then evolution and DNA seems like a pretty smart system to pull that off doesn't it. You get to make all kinds of stuff by starting with the same base system and expanding on it as you need to in order to make more complex and interesting animals! WOW what an idea. God as a logical systematic being, kind of like we are. How insane.

If you want to worship Harry Potter, go ahead. I would suggest you move to Las Vegas and find Chris Angel, cause as far as magicians go right now he kicks ass and he is pretty readily accesible. You can see him nightly by paying for tickets. On the other hand if you want to see god by way of the holy trinity then you have to make alot of toast or eat alot of dorritos before you get a good image of the jesus embedded on it. And then it is a static image. It doesn't talk or walk or pull doves out of it's ears. Much better bargain going with Chris Angel.

I guess I am just irritated that people freak out over the idea that Jesus was mortal. I think if we could prove Jesus was mortal and had a family that MILLIONS of people would be reinvigorated with Christianity. Part of the problem is that Jesus, as prequaled by Hercules and a dozen other mythical guys, isn't that interesting.

We are all the children of humanist principles that started in the 15'th century, well actually resurfaced in the 15'th century and as humanists we find comfort and solace more often in commsierating with the human condition. So many many people can't connect to god because god is not human and nothing about him is something we can associate with and take true comfort in.  The closest thing we have to empathy with Jesus came when millions of people were willing to watch the absolutely horrible and brutal torturing of someone that is supposed to be their god incarnat JUST SO THAT THEY COULD FEEL LIKE THEY HAD A SENSE OF WHAT HE LIVED THROUGH.

YEah I would rather know what he taught his kids and how he spent time with his buddies rather than focus on just how hideously and graphically he was tortured to death. Yeesh. But apparently thats just me. I probably wouldn't have enjoyed Rome as it fell either. Not a fan of wrestling or other human brutality. Sorry.

OK I have ranted. I feel better.