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...incarcerated editor a few probing questions. I confess I had some reservations. The famous professor had always been more a distant phenomenon than a close friend. Previous attempts at encounters had always seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...
Criticism of the Jesus Seminar's open and offensive debunking of Christianity is clearly justified. However, credit should be given to those who would, in an honest and inoffensive manner, examine the historical events surrounding the origins of this religion. The legacy of Jesus, whether he existed or not, has had a tremendous influence on the social and political histories of the past two millenniums. Only a fool of a historian would base his knowledge of this critical period on a single, possibly inaccurate source. More research must be done into the events of the early New Testament. One thing...
...prove beyond a doubt that Jesus existed and that the events in the Bible actually took place, and no way to prove that they didn't either [RELIGION, April 8]. If it weren't so frustrating, I'd find it amusing that the members of the Jesus Seminar, who call themselves scholars and experts, are arguing about events that took place 2,000 years ago. Christianity and all other religions are in the realm of faith alone, and the best we can do is exercise the freedom to decide for ourselves what is right and believable. MELISSA R. WEBER Atlanta...
Your article contained far more about the reaction of Christian believers to the Jesus Seminar than about the Seminar. The report abounds with condescension and sarcasm about this important quest for historical accuracy. Beginning with "Judas didn't do it. Or at least the charges wouldn't stick," and "Well, the Jesus Seminar is at it again," you poke fun at the event and the scholars exploring the origins of Christianity. Jesus Seminar critics, on the other hand, are quoted with more respect. This subject deserved a more serious treatment. What were you afraid of? Angering the Christian political establishment...
...Jesus Seminar said in its Santa Rosa, California, meeting, "Belief in the Resurrection of Jesus does not depend upon what may or may not have happened to his corpse." But your report noted that in the eyes of a Lutheran layman, the group "said the Resurrection of Jesus Christ was not essential to the faith; and that, in fact, the Resurrection may not have occurred at all." In my view, your readership is ill served by the inability to understand the difference between these statements. I find that most readers do grasp this distinction quite easily, and many appreciate...