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Related: About this forumKenyan lawyer seeks to overturn conviction of Jesus
As much as this sounds like something from the Onion, it's not. Gives "frivolous lawsuit" a whole new meaning.
Dola Indidis has one goal: get justice for Jesus, even if it comes 2,000 years later.
To that end, the Kenyan lawyer named quite the roster of defendants -- including Pontius Pilate, King Herod, the former Emperor of Rome, and the states of Israel and Italy -- in the lawsuit he recently filed with the International Court of Justice, media outlets report.
I filed the case because its my duty to uphold the dignity of Jesus and I have gone to the ICJ to seek justice for the man from Nazareth, Indidis told Standard Media, a Kenyan news website. His selective and malicious prosecution violated his human rights through judicial misconduct, abuse of office bias and prejudice.
Including modern-day states in the suit, Indidis explained to another news outlet, is the result of those countries having previous ties to the Roman Empire.
"The government for whom they acted still is answerable for their act," Indidis told Kenya's Citizen TV. "Pontius Pilate was acting under the government of Rome, which was headed by Caesar."
Indidis went on to tell the news station that he would be relying on the Bible for evidence and that he thinks he has a good case.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/06/dola-indidis-lawyer-overturn-jesus-conviction_n_3713610.html
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)It's just the "divine" stuff that's hard to swallow.
ScottLand
(2,485 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)If Jesus had lived to 80 and died of natural causes Christian mythology would be nowhere.
ScottLand
(2,485 posts)I always wonder how anyone can simultaneously be angry at a murderer while stating that it was all god's will and happened for a reason.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)What a Class A, Priority One asshat.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)The fact that the Bible gives us no reliable insight into a person, Yeshu, tends to imply they tacked on myths to them even if they had a specific, real person as a base.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Which one of the four mutually exclusive accounts are they going to put forward? Oh yeah, there are no contradictions in the bible. Haha
LostOne4Ever
(9,286 posts)Could just point to all the scripture saying the earth is a flat disk and that the sun and moon revolve around it to show that the book is fiction and would have the case thrown out for lack of evidence
brooklynite
(94,384 posts)...it came up in the Senate but got filibustered...
dimbear
(6,271 posts)functioning fire department, so this sounds like a good use of resources to me.
Uh, do I need this?
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)Why doesn't he try to feed the poor and shelter the homeless if he's twiddling his fucking thumbs?