Priest might be tried for saying Jesus existed
Happy belated New Year everyone. Since my friend has been having modem problems, I’m throwing this really weird news item on the site to liven it up a little. I might actually start reporting related religious news as a daily addition to my friends postings in an effort to kick-start comment debates on this relatively new site. Here goes:
In Viterbo, Italy, an Italian judge is deciding if a priest should be tried on fraud charges for saying Jesus Christ existed.
An atheist accuser filed the complaint, saying the Roman Catholic Church has been deceiving people for 2,000 years with a fable about Christ.
The priest and his accuser are old schoolmates. Lawyers made their arguments in a short hearing behind closed doors on Friday.
The accuser says he doesn’t expect to win in heavily Catholic Italy, but rather to advance his case to the European Court of Human Rights, where he’ll accuse the church of what he calls “religious racism.”
His lawyer says the priest just “said and wrote what he has the duty to say and write.”
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[…] Our “Priest who might be tried for saying Jesus existed” story now gets a closing: The Italian atheist lost his legal crusade against the Catholic Church on Thursday when a judge rejected his attempts to sue a priest for saying that Jesus existed 2,000 years ago, the priest’s lawyer said. […]
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