That’s what * they* want you to think. He is in fact an integral member of an elite intellectual cabal known as the “Top Men”. “Professor Henry Jones Jr.” is simply a facade created to indoctrinate the masses of the next generation into unquestioning acceptance of “rationality” while at the same time allowing a cover for world traveling to coordinate with other secret groups within the organization and gather the artifacts the allow the continued manipulation of the world. But keep being a sheeple if you wish.
Also A Scandal in Bohemia. Holmes only admits to being beaten by four people, and the only one that’s identifiable is Irene Adler from ASiB.
What supernatural things has Dr. Jones actually seen?
- A man’s heart pulled from his chest–but this was actually at a distance and could’ve easily been a sleight-of-hand trick, especially since the corpse was burned, eliminating all evidence.
- The Sankara stones burn their way through his bag, which can be explained easily enough from the Indian heat and a bag that had already been subjected to snow, water, and a fall from great heights
- A group of Nazis are there one minute, and then are completely gone the next. Indy’s eyes were closed, so he saw nothing supernatural, and his evidence as an earwitness wouldn’t hold up in any court of law
- An old man in a knight suit claims to be a few hundred years old. Not verifiable.
- Donovan chooses poorly. This is the closest thing to a supernatural experience because the incident happens in close proximity of Indy and could not simply be explained as a response to poison or some other allergic reaction.
- Henry Sr.'s bullet wound is “healed”, but since Indy did not examine the wound closely, it could’ve been a superficial one and his father’s reaction was more out of shock and old age.
Of course, any incidents with a certain Crystal Skill happen while he’s still a professor, but by then, he has tenure and is likely suffering from a significant concussion from being in close proximity to a nuclear testing ground, so who’s going to believe him at that point anyway?
If any of his students asks a question that he isn’t sure how to answer, he just busts out the whip. Problem solved!
I guess he teaches his students how to loot and vandalize ancient man-made structures. Because that’s what he spend most of his time doing.
Welcome to archeology in the 1930s.
Ah, like feminist studies in the 1970s.
He’s a professor of archeology, expert on the occult, and…how does one say it…obtainer of rare antiquities.
I don’t think Indy was really religious even after the Ark was found.
Possibly after the events of the third movie. Early on he’s speaking to Marcus Brody and refers to Brody’s religious faith, as something Marcus, but not Indy, is a believer in.
But watching your father saved from death by water from the Holy Grail may have changed him
I like to think that he was a practicing Hindu, after having seen first hand evidence that Shiva exists at the end of Temple of Doom.
Well, he was mind-controlled by the Blood of Kali until Short Round burned him with a torch.
He teaches very little, he hardly ever shows up for class, so mostly one of the TAs handle lectures. Fortunately he tests right out of the book, so the class is an easy A.