Italiani pazzeschi (crazy Italians)

This is strange. Silvio Berlusconi has sworn off sexual relations until April 9, 2006.

Also in Italy a man is suing a priest for asserting that Jesus Christ existed.
It is also strange.

Cascioli filed a criminal complaint in 2002 after Righi wrote in a parish bulletin that Jesus did indeed exist, and that he was born of a couple named Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem and lived in Nazareth.

Cascioli claims that Righi's assertion constituted two crimes under Italian law: so-called "abuse of popular belief," in which someone fraudulently deceives people; and "impersonation," in which someone gains by attributing a false name to a person.

"The point is not to establish whether Jesus existed or not, but if there is a question of possible fraud," Cascioli's attorney, Mauro Fonzo, told reporters before the hearing.

Cascioli says the church has been gaining financially by "impersonating" as Christ someone by the name of John of Gamala, the son of Judas from Gamala.

Doing some further research, it turns out that this guy wrote a book, “The Fable of Christ.”
I am not going to post his website because frankly it disgusted me. But if you want to read his garbage, I trust you know how to use Google.

Anyhow, Cascioli knows and admits he has pretty much no chance of winning his case.

He has said he has little hope of the case succeeding in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Italy, but that he is merely going through the necessary legal steps to reach the European Court of Human Rights, where he intends to accuse the church of what he calls "religious racism.

Hmm. Say what you want about the European Court of Human Rights, Luigi, but I smell a rat. It seems pretty obvious to me that this joker is trying to create a media buzz about him so he can sell more copies of his filthy book. At a cursory glance at his website, he appears to suffer delusions on par with Jack Chick. They must take a class somewhere, “Anti-Catholicism 101: Trying to Discredit the Roman Catholic Church for Fun and Profit”

Thanks to former roommate Chris who randomly sent me the Jesus article.