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I have spent years watching scientists justify massive grants and useless research results with the same line used by James Cameron, but this is the first time I've witnessed the downright lunacy of Hollywood in this fashion. 'The Lost Tomb of Christ' is getting a great deal of ill-deserved attention. Reactions from religious leaders have been well, reactionary instead of contemplative.

The 'Lost Tomb of Jesus' Exposed

Cameron is no different than a scientist who claims to have discovered some compartment, or area, or center of the brain. They get away with it on account hardly anyone bothers to catch single word and short phrase meanings. How many times have you heard someone say, 'I could care less', with great conviction, knowing full well they mean they could not care less?

The average person accepts the phrase as what it is intended to mean and they miss what it really says. In science the terms are no different than it would now appear Hollywood uses.

'The Lost Tomb of Christ' is really nothing more than The Davinci Code Part Deux.

From common names of the era, Cameron and his 'experts' decided to believe in something for once. They surely do not hold the belief that the birth of Jesus was holy. If they did they would listen to themselves in what they claim to have found. A claim. They believe in their perception, their theory, not in the religious theory or even their own words.

Just imagine someone from the 23rd century walking through a soon to be black-topped cemetery in the heart of America's birth and coming upon a George, a Martha and their family? Chances are, they might find quite a few. It was pretty popular at the time.

Cameron screams 'I've found it', while the Discovery Channel speaks the truth: "could have once held" is the term they use. 'Could'. It ranks right up there with 'maybe', 'might', 'potentially', and the ever present scientific and now Hollywood-ism: 'could'. I always kinda thought those only counted in horseshoes.

Oh he's found it alright. His belief in the gullibility of the human species to follow the hype, has shown him a sequel to a movie he didn't even make can be made a success if the facts are ignored and the claims are adored.

Of course the last 'ancient' ossuary was hailed as divine until it was determined to have been made by some guy in his basement in Hoboken, or something.

Scientists make claims based on 'could' and that theory is accepted by a jaded press as fact as the real words say right up front the whole thing is a guess. People tend to miss the obvious.

A movie maker has a theory and sells it as fact with the most fought over real estate in history as the backdrop.

The details are always the devil. The parts show the truth when they are taken as a whole, not when the whole is mixed with the perception of the observer. Interpretation has a habit of biting back. Even if it is only a theory, or a guess.

So please, faith is not challenged by marketing. Just because Cameron needed income by making a movie, the self-styled king of the world, didn't have to make a true movie. You really think the story in front of the pictorial Titanic disaster was real?

Don't buy the hype.