A Kenyan lawyer, Dola Indidis, has filed a petition at the International Court of Justice to challenge the unfair trial and death of Jesus Christ.
The former spokesperson for the Kenyan Judiciary intends to sue the emperor Tiberius, Pontius Pilate, the state of Israel, the republic of Italy and several other individuals involved in the trial of Jesus. He believes that as a “friend of Jesus of Nazareth” it is his duty to uphold the dignity of Jesus.
In this incredible video, Indidis details to an interviewer the thinking behind his petition and tells us he believes he has “a good case with a high probability of success”.
The video does not seem to question the idea that these events occurred, rather the practicality of investigating something that ‘happened’ over 2,000 years ago. The interviewer seems to have no issue with the bible being used as evidence, and the description we are given of the ‘holy book’ is ‘a story as told by somebody who witnessed it’. Indidis considers it ‘evidence you cannot discredit’. The problem, as seen in the video, is that anybody involved in this incident is already dead, and therefore unavailable for suing.
His pursuit of the case is what calls his sanity into question, though he has a response prepared for this claim. It’s as if he expected people to think he was insane for suing the emperor Tiberius (42BC-37AD).
“When one day somebody said the world was round, people said he was mad,” reminding us “even Archimedes had the same problem.” People tend to claim someone is mad, he says, when they do not understand them. People also tend to claim someone is mad when they file petitions against the long-dead oppressors of a religious founder who may or may not have existed.
According to Kenyan website SDE, the registrar of the International Court of Justice has assembled a panel to consider the petition, but a spokesperson from the ICJ denied these claims, saying “It is not even theoretically possible for us to consider the case.”
Indidis sees the trial as a violation of Jesus’ human rights, yet also clearly believes that he was the son of God. Can the laws that apply to everybody else also apply to the messiah, when mortality does not? If we are expected to believe everything written in the bible, then perhaps he was sentenced wrongly to death, as Indidis believes, but the sentence didn’t stick. It remains unclear as to how he intends to argue this point, but as is said in the video, “It will make an interesting reading whichever way it goes”.
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