atheism took a humiliating blow in an Italian courtroom this month.
Providing the watching world a ringside seat, 72-year-old militant atheist and former seminarian, Luigi Cascioli, had his precedent setting case tossed out of court.
Curmudgeonly Cascioli was attempting to criminalize teaching on the existence and divinity of Jesus Christ by litigating against a former schoolmate.
Not only did the presiding judge toss the case out of court, he recommended prosecutors to investigate the possibility of slander against atheist victim, Fr. Enrico Righi.
In this suit, it would have been incumbent upon elderly parish priest Enrico Righi to prove the historical reality of Jesus.
Left to one parish priest to prove that the Son of God walked the earth, the case alleged that Fr. Righi, and his Church, were guilty of "abuse of popular credibility" and "impersonation", with criminal charges that were meant to protect the gullible people from financial swindles.
Cascioli, a former classmate of Righ's, was going to take his case all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, where he vowed to charge the Church with "religious racism".
"The suit, had it been taken seriously," said LifeSiteNews.com, "would have proposed that all of Christian culture and history, an entire political cultural and economic order guiding hundreds of millions of people over 2000 years was the construction of a cynical conspiracy, a fraud of a nearly unimaginable magnitude."
With his case thrown out of the courts of the land, Cascioli is left to promote his theories in a self-published, anti-Catholic book entitled, The Fable of Christ.
The end of the Jesus Conspiracy trial preceded by one day the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Catholic Church celebrations of St. Bernadette's visions of the Blessed Virgin, honoured each year on February 11.
amid world media paying close attention to the Viterbo courtroom were Moscow's Pravda and al Jazeerah.
Meanwhile, South africa's Mail Guardian that ran the headline, The End of God? will have to call off celebrations.
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