Atheist Wages War On Easter
Posted on April 11, 2006
Via WND
A media company that produced a best-selling documentary asserting that Jesus Christ never existed today launches its “War on Easter,” encouraging volunteer atheists to plant copies of the film “The God Who Wasn’t There” in churches across the United States.
Dubbing the effort “Operation Easter Sanity,” Brian Flemming, a self-described “former Christian fundamentalist” and president of Beyond Belief Media, hopes to covertly place 666 copies of the documentary in churches by Easter Sunday, April 16. The number 666 is the biblical mark of “The Beast,” which also is the name of another film by Flemming set for a 06-06-06 release.
“People go to churches to hide from the truth,” Flemming said in a statement. “At no time is this more apparent than Easter, when Christians get together to convince each other that a man died, stayed dead three days, rose from the dead and then flew into the air above the clouds.
“Our nonviolent campaign sends the message that nowhere in the country is safe from the truth. Wherever Christian leaders are indoctrinating children with 2,000-year-old fairy tales, the truth may just find its way there.”
Continued the former Christian: “Our ‘War on Easter’ is of course completely without violence of any kind. Christians believe that beating a man to a pulp and nailing him to a cross somehow solves all the world’s problems. Beyond Belief Media does not.”
“The God Who Wasn’t There” is currently No. 5 on Amazon.com’s list of best-selling documentaries.
Fleming claims to have planted copies of the DVD at Our Lady of the Angels Catholic cathedral in Los Angeles Sunday morning.
“I put the DVDs in my right inside jacket pocket,” he explained on the War on Easter website. “It was a gorgeous Palm Sunday. The kind of day that makes you want to ride on a donkey and get hit with palm fronds. …
“As soon as the Mass was over, I got to work hiding DVDs and flyers in hymnals and the like.”
Fleming posted a photo of Cardinal Roger Mahony and himself allegedly taken after the Mass.
Responded “Eric” on the site: “Why do you feel the need to spread hate? Just because you are miserable doesn’t give you the right to lash out. Listen, you need some professional help. You remind me of Hitler and what he was trying to do. Are you proud of that?”
It’s a free country for this guy to spread hate, I won’t deny him that. But it sure is ridiculous and pitiful.
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If I’m not mistaken, just recently an atheist in Italy tried to sue a Bishop claiming that Christ never existed. And if I remember correctly the atheist lost that court battle.
I’m sorry, he was a Parish Priest and the case was dismissed.
Here is the evidence presented in the case:
THE EVIDENCE
• The Gospels say that Jesus was born to the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem, grew up in Nazareth, preached and performed miracles in Galilee and died on the Cross in Jerusalem
• In his Antiquities of the Jews at the end of the 1st century, Josephus, the Jewish historian, refers to Jesus as “a wise man, a doer of wonderful works” who “drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles”
• Muslims believe Jesus was a great prophet. Many Jewish theologians regard Jesus as an itinerant rabbi who popularised many of the beliefs of liberal Jews. Neither Muslims nor Jews believe he was the Messiah and Son of God
• Tacitus, the Roman historian who lived from 55 to 120, mentions “Christus” in his Annals. In about 120 Suetonius, author of The Lives of the Caesars, says: “Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, Emperor Claudius expelled them from Rome.”