Religion in the News

It has been a bad week for religious conservatives.

First they found out that praying for people they don’t know, even if the recipients know someone is praying for them, has no bearing on whether the prayees recover from illness without complications.

Then a scientist, who previously had identified wind blowing on the Red Sea and dropping the sea level as the reason the Israelites were able to cross and not drown, has now concluded that ice had formed in the Sea of Galilee, and therefore, Jesus had walked on ice rather than water.

Next the long sought ‘missing link’ has been found. Scientists discovered a fossil that was a fish, but with a head that moved separately from its body, that could drag itself on land. It is approximately 375 million years old (sorry creationists, not less than 6,000 years old) and is evidence of evolutionary thinking that life started in the oceans and moved to land.

Finally the Judas Gospel has been translated and reveals that instead of being the heinous betrayer known to mankind, he actually was doing what Jesus asked him to do and is to be considered a hero, although in the process casting into doubt the previous inviolable Bible story.