There are reports coming out already (the linked story above being one) that Cameron's flick has logical and/or factual flaws, so I'm not going to address those. I'm no archaeologist, so I'll leave that business to the experts.
Hi, Tim,
You don't need to be an archaeologist to know that the presentation is flawed, both factually and logistically.
If Christ rose from the dead, body and soul, then it is not logically possible for His bones to have remained on earth.
That Jesus Christ rose from the dead is a historical fact.
To suggest otherwise, which is what the presenters are doing, is to suggest that Christianity is folly, which is a factual error.
And I must gently question your assumption that "when they think of Christians, the first people they think of are guys like Falwell and Robertson."
Televangelists were not around when the attack of the one holy catholic church began...after the Resurrection, when erroneous reports were spread that the body of Jesus was taken away by His disciples.
This is simply a rehash of a doomed-to-failure attack that began a couple of thousand years ago.
This is not, in my opinion, an unfortunate albeit understandable backlash against judgmental preachers.
It's a deliberate attack -- however feeble -- against Jesus.
It won't succeed, of course, but it is an attack against Him.
And that's my judgment, harsh as it may seem. 
This is not, in my opinion, an unfortunate albeit understandable backlash against judgmental preachers.
It's a deliberate attack -- however feeble -- against Jesus.
Of course, and I think that goes without saying. I just found that particular quote in that particular story, and I thought it was a generally true statement - not just about the whole "Jesus' tomb" fiasco, but about Christians and skeptics/atheists in general.
But my point was, how much do we add to that animosity? Falwell and Robertson (and you can make a list of lesser-known guys just like 'em) make these pronouncements about God's judgment as if God has whispered personally in their ear. And because they call themselves Christian, the average run-of-the-mill non-Christian visualizes all of us together in one ugly little pile.
I recall an illustrative story that one previous pastor told. Seems that Alexander the Great went into a fierce battle one time, and as sometimes happens, he had a few cowardly deserters in the heat of combat. After the battle, one of them was caught and brought before him to face justice. When asked his name, the deserter revealed that his name was also Alexander, whereupon Alexander the Great told him, "You need to either change your name or change your attitude."
People who go about describing themselves as Christians while publicly acting in a way that is contrary to Christian teaching, and promoting that behavior as Christian behavior, does nothing for the reputation of Christians. As you pointed out, the animosity against Christ and Christians goes way back. We don't need to add fuel to the fire by allowing such behavior to go uncontradicted.
That's all I was trying to say.
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