Jesus Christ

2007-04-02T01:06:17Z

David the Gnome:

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The name '''Jesus''' is simply the name "Joshua" translated first into Greek, then English. The name '''Jesus''' almost always refers specifically to '''Jesus of Nazareth,''' accepted by [[Christians]] as the Son of God. The life of Jesus is recorded in the Bible in the [[Gospel]]s of [[Matthew]], [[Mark]], [[Luke]], and [[John]]. As recounted in the Gospels, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and was subsequently crucified for His work and teachings. Jesus voluntarily accepted this fate and delivered over His spirit on the cross for our sins. Three days later He rose from the dead and appeared to others.

The first time John saw Jesus, he said, "Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world!"
<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201:29&version=31;</ref>

==Other people in the Bible named "Jesus"==

The author of ''Ecclesiastius,'' a book which Catholics include in the Douay Bible, but Protestants place in the Apocrypha, is known as ''Jesus of Sira.''

==The Historical Jesus==
[[Image:Santa.jpg|right|thumb|The image depicts a hypothetical construction of what someone from Jesus' time and location might have looked like.]]
Occasionally someone denies the existence of Jesus, but few scholars take this seriously. Tacitus, the Roman historian, wrote about Jesus in A.D. 115<ref>http://www.digisys.net/users/ddalton/evidence_of_jesus_outside_the_bible.htm</ref>, and Josephus, a Jewish historian who did not believe in Jesus' divinity, wrote about Him. <ref>http://www.christian-thinktank.com/jesusref.html</ref>.

Many of the descriptions in the Gospels have been proven true with modern archeology. Skeptics challenged the existence of Pontius Pilate, for example, about whom there is almost no historical evidence outside of the Gospels. But in 1961, the only known inscription of Pontius Pilate was discovered, confirming his existence.<ref> http://www.bible-history.com/empires/pilate.html</ref>

[[Lee Strobel]]'s book ''The Case for Christ'' contains a number of interviews with experts on the historical Jesus, and is a good resource on this subject.

==Christ's Second Coming==
On '''Saturday''', '''March 24th''', '''2006''', a small note appeared on Wikipedia.org's [[Second Coming]] article, wherein 21-year old jobless drifter '''Christopher Hopkins''' offered an argument for [[Christ's Return]]. Initially deleted out of Wikipedian skepticism stemming from [[fear]], [[doubt]], and [[insufficient disprovability]], Christopher's [[meme]] propagated across the [[internet]] as the first step in a fulfilled [[Messianic prophecy]]. MySpace.com, Wikipedia.org, and SomethingAwful.com served as the initial battlefronts in the [[War for Peace]], previously referred to as the [[last judgment]].

As of '''Sunday''', '''April 1st''', '''2007''', Wikipedia.org refuses to even allow discussion of the meme, claiming that any argument for Jesus Christ's return was "ridiculous neoconservative propaganda" and a "hoax."

==References==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hopkins_meme
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Bill O'Reilly

2007-03-31T03:46:02Z

David the Gnome:

[[Image:Bll.png|thumb|right|Bill O' Reilly On The O' Reilly Report]]
'''Bill O'Reilly''' is a popular commentator and host of the show ''The O'Reilly Factor'' on the [[Fox News Channel]], which he calls the "No Spin Zone." His interviewing style is aggressive, and he never lets guests spin the facts. O'Reilly often remarks that his personal political viewpoint is not captured by the modern [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] and [[Republican Party|Republican]] archetypes and would rather call himself a "traditionalist." In this vein, he has expressed support for some positions not traditionally associated with his political supporters including anthropogenic climate change and civil unions for both heterosexual and homosexual couples. The hosts who fill in for him when he is not hosting, however, are all standard conservative Republicans, such as [[John Kasich]]. ([[Tony Snow]] also had filled in a few times prior to becoming White House Press Secretary).

On March 28th, 2007, O'Reilly announced via in-house memo that he would be filming the rest of his show from a secret location due to numerous death threats directed at FOX News Headquarters in New York, NY. A spokesman for FOX News called the threats "ridiculous hyperliberal propaganda" and assured the "hoax" would be "punished" to the "fullest extent of the law."

His show is the highest rated cable "news" program in the world.

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