An Italian man is suing a Catholic priest for claiming in a parish newspaper that Jesus existed. Italy's version of Michael Newdow is basing his suit on laws against swindlers and impersonators. "I started this lawsuit because I wanted to deal the final blow against the Church, the bearer of obscurantism and regression," Luigi Cascioli explained to Reuters. Exibit A, Exibit B, Exibit C, and Exibit D support the defendant's case. What evidence will exist 2,000 years from now of Mr. Cascioli's existence?

All they have to do is prove the existence of Mary, and to do that all they have to do is bring up Fatima. If you've ever looked into these things before athiests/skeptics love to skewer people on the paranormal and the religious, however when it comes to Fatima all the skeptics can seem to muster is a two word dismissal: mass hallucination. To me it has always seem slightly disengenious to refer to the mass witness of a paranormal event by all stripes of people as a mere hallucination.

I think the existence of Jesus is pretty secure--that is, unless Italy has activist judges too.

Here's my thoughts on the whole thing: Could Jesus Suffer His Father's Fate?