Oy, the Sting of Criticism

So, did everybody watch Jim Cameron's Discovery Channel documentary on the supposed burial box of Jesus and clan and the panel discussion afterwards? Yeah, well, me neither (Jesus is cool, but he's not Battlestar Galactica, after all). Apparently the post-game breakdown was not kind:

For those of you who did not catch the 1-hour roundtable discussion of the Jesus Family Tomb that immediately followed the documentary, you missed a bloodbath. The panel included Simcha Jacobovici, the producer/writer/director of the documentary, UNC-Charlotte Professor James Tabor, and five other scholars not involved with the documentary. All five scholars were not just critical of the program, but harshly critical. Professor Jonathan Reed went so far as to call it "archeo-porn." Ouch.

Ouch, indeed. Apparently Cameron and crew have taken a page from the Rove playbook and decided to argue that anyone who doesn't think their evidence is solid is simply delusional and not able to face the truth. Sometimes that might be true. But sometimes when everybody tells you your theory is a crock of shit, it's just a crock of shit.