Maker of Titanic movie uncovers amazing truth after 2000 years !
Yes. It doesn't ring true, does it.
One the one hand we have James Cameron. He's an excellent movie maker, but if you want to know the truth about the Titanic disaster nobody ever suggests you watch Leonardo diCaprio's antics and take them seriously.
On the other hand we have the scholars and academics who say that the names on the ossuary are common, the place is wrong and the inscription can be read to say other things anyway, it is so bad.
Like the daVinci Code, it raises the whole issue of what our society believes and where it gets its information from.
I like TV and film, but they are entertainment media. That colours and controls the way they present things and what they choose to present.
It's a bit like the way the media present evangelicals. Of course they will present the people who do crazy stuff, writhing and falling and screaming and so on. Five people going bananas is far more viewable than a thousand people listening calmly to someone explain something. Of course, the sad thing is that so many of our newspapers and magazines have sold out to entertainment, too (and so many evangelicals.....)
To find out the truth about the Titanic disaster you need to read the eyewitness accounts and the analysis of careful historians. And whaddayaknow ! You can do just that for the truth about Jesus in the gospels.
When you want to know the truth, you don't go to the movies. Sorry James.
One the one hand we have James Cameron. He's an excellent movie maker, but if you want to know the truth about the Titanic disaster nobody ever suggests you watch Leonardo diCaprio's antics and take them seriously.
On the other hand we have the scholars and academics who say that the names on the ossuary are common, the place is wrong and the inscription can be read to say other things anyway, it is so bad.
Like the daVinci Code, it raises the whole issue of what our society believes and where it gets its information from.
I like TV and film, but they are entertainment media. That colours and controls the way they present things and what they choose to present.
It's a bit like the way the media present evangelicals. Of course they will present the people who do crazy stuff, writhing and falling and screaming and so on. Five people going bananas is far more viewable than a thousand people listening calmly to someone explain something. Of course, the sad thing is that so many of our newspapers and magazines have sold out to entertainment, too (and so many evangelicals.....)
To find out the truth about the Titanic disaster you need to read the eyewitness accounts and the analysis of careful historians. And whaddayaknow ! You can do just that for the truth about Jesus in the gospels.
When you want to know the truth, you don't go to the movies. Sorry James.
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