Monday, March 01, 2004
The Power and the Passion
Rejecting the Gospels?
By IAN COLEMAN Friday, February 20, 2004 - Globe and Mail, Page A20
Edmonton -- Among Gérald Caron's complaints with Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is that it is historically dubious. But how could any movie about any portion of the life of Jesus be anything other than historically dubious when all the Christian Gospels contain descriptions of events that could never have happened.
One example of many: In the Gospel according to John, Jesus turns water into wine. Wine contains carbon atoms, and water does not. To produce carbon atoms from the oxygen atoms in water, Jesus would have had to split two protons from each oxygen atom.
Doing this to the oxygen atoms in a gallon of water would have caused an atomic explosion that would have destroyed most of Roman-held Judea.
By IAN COLEMAN Friday, February 20, 2004 - Globe and Mail, Page A20
Edmonton -- Among Gérald Caron's complaints with Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is that it is historically dubious. But how could any movie about any portion of the life of Jesus be anything other than historically dubious when all the Christian Gospels contain descriptions of events that could never have happened.
One example of many: In the Gospel according to John, Jesus turns water into wine. Wine contains carbon atoms, and water does not. To produce carbon atoms from the oxygen atoms in water, Jesus would have had to split two protons from each oxygen atom.
Doing this to the oxygen atoms in a gallon of water would have caused an atomic explosion that would have destroyed most of Roman-held Judea.
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