**Did Christ End Up in India? **
Did Christ End Up in India? | Letters | Chicago Reader
The staff of the Reader should know that the significance of Professor Sheehan’s “revelations” pertaining to the historicity of Jesus Christ goes far beyond what he has revealed [April 21]. And one wonders whether or not Professor Sheehan is as “radical” as he would like us to believe or whether, in fact, Professor Sheehan is no more than a very willing “spokesman” for a church which appears to be crumbling to the dust, and needs someone like Sheehan to keep the boat afloat by offering a new “interpretation.” An interpretation, on the one hand, “radical” enough to withstand the onslaught of the growing body of evidence regarding the post-crucifixion life of Jesus Christ, but “conservative” enough to keep the “taffy” (borrowing Sheehan’s metaphor) from breaking, by offering all that is left of Church-Christianity–the essence of Christ’s teachings