Mudville Gazette quotes Michael Yon, a former Army Special Forces NCO and now almost certainly the most experienced and perceptive war correspondent working. Writing of troop morale, Michael observes: “If their morale could be bottled, it would probably sell like crack, then be outlawed.”

Just watch this video.

Yesterday I showed why the entire thesis of the Talpiot tomb containing the ossuaries of Jesus, his claimed wife Mary Magdalene and their claimed son, Judah, is at bottom a conspiracy theory: It completely depends on Jesus having been an anti-Roman agitator or wannabe revolutionary leader. But there is no historical evidence of that. In my own seminary studies I read or scanned through a large number of books that serious scholars had written, claiming that Jesus was a wisdom teacher, a sage, an apocalyptic prophet; a Jewish reformist, and so on. But I don’t remember even one claim that he was attempting to agitate against Rome.

No matter what the DNA tests show, no matter what the names on the ossuaries, if the claim that Jesus was an anti-Roman agitator cannot be sustained - and it most certainly cannot - then the entire edifice of the “family tomb” proposal falls into ruins, for that is the only reason the show presents for their claim of a secret marriage of Jesus and Mary Mag. and the secrecy of them giving birth to a son, Judah. As far as I know, I am the only person who has identified this flaw in the family tomb proposal.

I urge you to read pieces by two others. One is noted New Testament scholar, Professor Ben Witherington, at his blog. Start here, but there is a lot more on his site. Especially do read the comments.

The other is by RealClearPolitics contributor Jay Cost, “Examining the ‘Jesus Tomb’ Evidence.”