Dateline: Jerusalem, Holy Sepulchre

Oh, goody. ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas — the journalist who brought you the straight scoop on Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s luv-‘n-marriage, according to the Gospel of Dan Brown — is doing a special for 20/20 on the Resurrection of Christ to be aired on Friday, May 20. Guess who will be joining her as special guests?

Did you say Fr. Richard McBrien and (Episcopal) Bishop John Shelby Spong (among others)? How’d you figure it?

Sample Quotes:

McBRIEN: "If they had digital cameras in those days, and they took … tried to take a photo of Jesus, you know, ‘Get over there with Peter … would you stand with Mary Magdalene? This would make a great shot. I mean, no one will ever believe this.’ You take a photo of that scene and you’d get Peter and Mary Magdalene, but not Jesus."

You’d think a college professor would speak more coherently.

SPONG: "I don’t think that most of the resurrection narratives in the New Testament are historical at all. But I don’t think there would have been a New Testament or a Jesus movement had there not been some astonishing experience of power that caused these people to see Jesus in a way they had never seen him before."

Translation: "The Gospels are pretty fakey, but those poor misguided souls who spun those fairy tales must have experienced some weird Christ event to get them to make that stuff up."

GET THE STORY.

(Nod to Relapsed Catholic for the link.)

Be sure to wake me when it’s over.

8 thoughts on “Dateline: Jerusalem, Holy Sepulchre”

  3. What? No Andrew Greeley or Vicki Gene Robinson?
    What ever happened to balance in journalism?

  4. Anyone know anything about Father Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, the other Catholic on the panel?

  5. Why do they need to do this story again? Peter Jennings did the same thing not long ago, concluding that Jesus’ historical resurrection was not very likely.
    Durrrh! It wasn’t unlikely, you twits, it was impossible! That’s the point. We maintain that it happened anyway.
    It’s preposterous to say “Well, we have crunched the numbers on this, and the statistical probability that some one could just rise from the dead after a few days is pretty darn low… we just don’t see it showing up in our samples at all. Not even statistically significant”.
    Again, “Duurrrh!

  6. I caught a preveiw of it. It said 20% of Christians believe it was a spiritual ressurrection, not a physical one. Can someone tell me what a spiritual ressurrection is?

  7. Thankfully, I attended a beautiful nuptial Mass that evening and didn’t need ABC to further my understanding of The Resurrection.

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