Why didn’t I think of suing the Church for falsely claiming that Jesus existed?
Cascioli, a lifelong atheist, claims that Righi violated two Italian laws by making the assertion: so-called "abuse of popular belief" in which someone fraudulently deceives people; and "impersonation" in which someone gains by attributing a false name to someone.
Cascioli says that for 2,000 years the Roman Catholic Church has been deceiving people by furthering the fable that Christ existed, and says the church has been gaining financially by "impersonating" as Christ someone by the name of John of Gamala, the son of Judas from Gamala.
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And this in Italy too, one of the bastions of Christianity. I hope it goes all the way to the Hague, as the article says, it’ll be a spectacle indeed. I wonder what’ll happen if they decided that Jesus never existed, and it becomes legal fact. Will millions of religious lawyers be torn asunder?