Prove Christ exists, judge orders priest

In today's news of the stupid, a judge orders a priest to prove the existence of Jesus Christ because of a silly lawsuit by an atheist.

AN ITALIAN judge has ordered a priest to appear in court this month to prove that Jesus Christ existed. The case against Father Enrico Righi has been brought in the town of Viterbo, north of Rome, by Luigi Cascioli, a retired agronomist who once studied for the priesthood but later became a militant atheist.

Believers and non-believers can have reasonable arguments over whether Jesus Christ was the Messiah, but his having lived is indisputable. Besides religious writings like The Bible, entries have been found in Roman records from that time frame that refer to Christ. I can not begin to fathom what "proof" the judge expects this priest to produce. The whole idea of faith is that some things are accepted without tangible evidence.