I wonder about this whole Talpiot Tomb thing. Do they - and the majority of people - really think they found the ossuaries of Jesus, his mom, his wife, and his son? Even if Jesus did escape crucifixion / dying on the cross, and even if he did marry and have kids, what are the chances that their remains would be found, and all in one place? It'd be a pretty big mindshift, though, wouldn't it? You can well imagine what the Catholic Church's response is:



I don't know what I'd think if this was somehow proven without a shadow of a doubt. If someone or some group could prove, undeniably, that all these remains belong to who they think they do... what would people do? Would Christian religion be essentially done for? I'd have to admit that I'd be giving the whole thing serious thought. How could someone follow words and beliefs that were obviously untrue? I guess I could just ask a Mormon or Jehovah's Witness, but it's probably better to figure out stuff like that on your own.

The whole removal of the remains is pretty touchy, though, too, isn't it? In 1980, while Han Solo was hacking open a taun-taun's steaming jelly gut to stuff a frozen Luke Skywalker into, some hands-on intellectual was hacking open what could be Jesus' final resting place. Even if it isn't his, it's someone's. Imagine if it is, for a second, Jesus' tomb. Do you want to be the guy that messed with it and dug him out? Holy crap, he'd be eternally fucked. Unless the whole supernatural part is bogus. But, still... I wouldn't want to be the guy that dug Jesus up.