2006-08-13 01:55:14 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Its subtitle is "Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History." Its purpose is to be controversial and racy, not to be accurate. It says that "As a religious historian and a leading expert in the field of arcane knowledge, Baigent has unequaled access to hidden archives, secret societies, Masonic records, and the private collections of antiquities traders and their moneyed clients." These are his credentials? How come no other Biblical scholar or archeologist has found anything of the sort, and how come none of them put any credence into what he claims? Supposedly, Pontius Pilot made a secret deal to save Jesus' life. Jesus didn't die on the cross. His friends gave him some drugs - hashish, opium, and belladonna - to knock him out and make it look like he was dead, then a few hours later they took him down and secretly revived him. Does Baigent even know how a person dies on the cross? It's from suffocation. Hung in that position, you can't breathe out. In order to do so, you must lift your body up, easing the pressure on your diaphragm. Eventually a person gets too weak and tired to do that anymore, and then they suffocate and die. If Jesus had been unconscious, as Baigent claims, he would have died faster, not more slowly. And the rest of his work is the same - uncredited speculation and baseless claims. I don't mind people looking at the evidence of history and saying that the Bibe doesn't have it right, but I do mind people just making up stories out of wholesale cloth and trying to pass them off as legitimate scholarship so that they can make money from it.
2006-08-13 03:45:21 · answer #1 · answered by Caritas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never read the latest...is it a negative thing?
2006-08-13 09:22:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋