Sep 13
Pardon Jesus: crucifixion goes to appeal
Thanks to Libby Purves I was directed to what must be one of the more bizarre stories around. What’s the point in satirical news sites like The Onion when people do things like this?
On August 29, 2007, the Friends of Jesus, acting through Mr Dola Indidis, a Christian, lawyer and also the spokesman for the Judiciary, filed a petition in the Constitutional Court in Nairobi against the States of Italy and Israel and a host of characters featured in biblical accounts of the events leading to Jesus’ crucifixion.
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The Petitioners are challenging the mode of questioning used during the trial, prosecution, hearing and sentencing of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the form of punishment meted out against him and the substance of the information used to convict him. They also challenge the law that was used to convict him and claim that the trial was a nullity in law because all proceedings in the Roman Courts in 42 BC-37 AD “did not conform to the rule at the material time”.
Read it, and weep.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Are you sure this isn’t a spoof? Or at best a publicity stunt?
I think the real defendants should be the Vatican City State (legal heirs of the Roman Empire at least according to their claimed Decretals of Constantine) and the Kingdom of Jordan (since the Israeli occupation of the Old City of Jerusalem is not recognised by international law).
September 14th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Peter, I have no idea whether this is a publicity stunt. Unfortunately, so many Christians (and others, of course) to such plainly insane things that it’s hard to tell