Taking Jesus to Court

Sure I've thought about how fun it would be to sue religious leaders for fraud and deception, but I would never do it. Apparently it's possible to do that in Italy though, and now a Catholic priest has to prove in a court of law that Jesus existed. This should be interesting given the lack of real proof of Christ's existence as even a man, not alone a supernatural magician who could turn water into wine (a trick I tried on New Year's Eve with little success - I was, however, able to turn five bourbon and cokes, three beers, and several campari and sodas into a headache) and pull-off the even more amazing trick of getting prostitutes to love him (a trick I also tried on New Year's Eve with little success).

In related news, the Dover Area School Board (PA) has unanimously rescinded its "intelligent design" policy, which sought to treat religion as science. I must admit I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, intelligent design is clearly not science. On the other hand, I think introducing intelligent design into schools is a first step to getting the Flying Spaghetti Monster taught in schools. And that would be cool.

Addendum: Bobby Henderson, the prophet who has revealed the gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to us, is the coolest person to ever be interviewed in Wired magazine as far as I'm concerned. Not only is he taking on the intelligent design folks, he received an $80,000 advance to write his "bible" and is using the proceeds from the book to build a bad-ass pirate ship. Must-read interview here.