The Times on Christianity

Though Alessandra Stanley of the New York Times is far from agreeing with James Cameron’s “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” which will be on Discovery channel Sunday night, her ignorance of and alienation from Christianity is pretty much complete. Here are two paragraphs from her review. First the opening:

Creationists reject the theory of evolution. Religious pilgrims still line up for the Shroud of Turin. So it is unlikely that many Christians will lose sleep—let alone faith—because of “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” on the Discovery Channel tomorrow.

Christianity is summed up by Creationism and belief in the Shroud of Turin. Christianity is simply blind, anti-science faith and so naturally Christians will automatically reject any scientific evidence that doesn’t fit their faith.

Second excerpt:

The archaeological arguments [presented by the program] are plausible but not persuasive: this is a breakthrough that relies more on “what if” than “here’s how.” And even an amateur can see that the ifs are stacked to support one hypothesis. But it is a fashionable one. Early Christian Gospels suggesting that Mary Magdalene was the wife of Jesus and a respected apostle in her own right, not a fallen woman, are the foundation of Gnostic studies by scholars like Elaine Pagels—as well as of the plot of the Dan Brown best seller “The Da Vinci Code.”

Stanley’s reference to the Gnostic Gospels, which of course are not a part of Christianity and not recognized by Christianity, as “Early Christian Gospels” is, at best, a mark of shocking ignorance of the subject.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 03, 2007 07:42 AM | Send