Here we go again!

Every year, like clockwork, I wonder what the attack will be.
What attack?
The attack on Christian doctrines of Jesus Christ in the mainstream media.

It's amazing to me how easy it is for the lefty pseudo-intellectuals of our society to buy into some new reason every year at the same time (Lent, right before Easter) to "debunk" the claims of the Church. Or to "enlighten" the poor and uneducated masses of Christians around the world that have been dooped into the "greatest story ever sold," i.e. the orthodox and consistent doctrines taught by the Church since Christ.

Last year it was "The Gospel of Judas," this year, its the "Finding of Jesus' Tomb." And what great archaeologist/scientist/philosopher/theologian/intellectual/scholar will unveil this enlightening new discovery? Who else? The director of "Titanic!" Is it surprising? Most of America believed most of what Dan Brown (a popular fictional author) claimed about Jesus at the drop of a hat. People read "The DaVinci Code" and find themselves feeling smarter or more informed than the poor saps that have fallen prey to the greatest cover up of all time conducted by the Catholic Church (queue menacing music). When someone asked the director about some of the claims, he made the comment: "Oh no, I'm not a theologist." I'll let that quote go, its too easy...

But don't these people who listen to all these recent discoveries about Jesus simply want to know the truth?

NO!

The people who attack Christianity using the "Gospel of Judas", "Mary Magdalen marriages", "Jesus' tomb", etc. don't do homework (including the media). If they did, it would be simple to refute. Even non christian scholars usually debunk these things, but that's not exciting. Exciting, to a culture that loves to watch mind numbing hours of television, is to watch TV and be educated on a great and far reaching scandalous cover up by the Church over the past 2000 years. That's exciting for some reason; not knowing the truth. So we'll see the same thing again. Some hand picked "scholars" that will get their 15 minutes of fame on the discovery channel, while the vast majority of true scholars (and slightly informed laity) will watch and shake their head at the nonsense, but the masses will bite off and chew all day long. That is of course until the next "great discovery" comes and they spit that out (i.e. completely forget) and bite on to the new claims next year.

If the atheistic/new age/enlightened/modern intellect were honest, it would make it easier, but they're not. If you make a claim about a doctrine of the Church, they want hardcore stats, scientific research, archaeological backup along with philosophical, logical and reasonable arguments (which are all VERY available), but that's not what they really want. They want to show that what Christians do is believe things that we have to in order to make our claims of Christ, and cover up anything that's not convenient to our Truth. This makes them look better, it makes them feel smart, more "enlightened."

Do they exhaust the reasons the Church believes what she believes in order to balance both sides? No.

Do they exhaust the BILLIONS of christian scholars that have lived in the past 2000 years to understand more of why we continue to believe in this "superstitious" stuff? Of course not. If its not on the discovery channel, who needs it?

Do they exhaust things like all the miracles claimed by Christians that scientist can't explain? No. It's amazing how many of them (miracles) there are out there, but that's not popular. Which is strange, considering it seems rather sensational to me.

Do the honestly search for the truth even if that leads to The Truth? No. Of course not. That might be challenging! They might be wrong! And worse yet, those Truths might actually be true, and that would mean that the archaic superstitious Christians that hold back true modernism and advance in the world might actually be right. And they might actually have to get off the relavtive fence of our day.

Why is this? An opinion I hold with many who don't claim God is this: They're mad at God or Christians. They would never go out into their backyard, alone, look up and say: "God, I don't know if you exist. I'm pretty sure you don't. But if you do, I want to find out and I promise to honestly look if you lead." - Won't happen. I've tried to present this, and its easily laughed off. Why? Scared of what might happen? They're angry at either Christians (probably rightfully) or God (which is also understandable - look at the psalms, they're often angry). And they want to stay that way. Of course, there's the simpler reason: Christians aren't easily dooped, the masses of intellectually and generally lazy society are.

So here we go this year. Spoon fed "education" from a movie director to the intellectually lazy multitude (I blame TV, public schools and relativism). Every year, like clockwork, right before Easter (coincidence?).

Will it be noted that almost every early christian saint's relics were cherished and preserved in those young days of the Church, but somehow they missed Christ? Nah. And if it is, somehow the early Christians who were living underground and killed by the thousands managed to spread into the entire world, overthrow the greatest empire every known (Rome), and become the largest, longest lasting and most unified people on the planet (the Catholic Church), while all at the same time somehow covering up the real truths of Christ! Now that's exciting... But if it was true that He did raise from the dead....that might actually mean we're not all God and we might have to look away from the idol of the self.

It's not as if Sacred Scripture gives much credit to the apostles after Christ died on the cross. They go into hiding and it appears the are simply going to give up. They don't courageously fight to preserve what Christ taught to the death. No, they hide. Even Peter openly renounces Christ and becomes almost belligerent in renouncing him. But then something happens. Then they claim to have seen the risen Christ (after they were told by those who weren't cowards - the women of the Gospels). Then these men who seemed to have become cowards (although the secular world would have you think the bible paints a perfect picture the early Church), become so dedicated to the Christ that they had just renounced (in Peters case), that they spend the rest of their lives courageously spreading the Good News (that sin and death have been defeated) and give their lives in martyrdom for this very News. Seems like a drastic change. Then thousands of Christians lost their lives to stand by this Christ. Even in the last centuries more Christians died for this man named Jesus than in the early persecutions (45.5 million in the last century). But why would we look to this witness to find out what is it about Jesus that so drastically changes lives, and not to mention changes the world? Why would we when we have a movie director to tell us? He makes movies, I bet they'll be special affects on the "documentary," it's gotta be something right!? - No, its rubbish.

Maybe next year they'll let ol' Paris Hilton give us the new dirt on Christ.



Sacred heart of Jesus, that burns with love for your people, have mercy on us.