One of the things that astounds me about the human animal is our stubborn will to believe, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Case in point: the Turin “Shroud.”
Dating to the mid-14th century, the so-called shroud is a 14-foot piece of linen displaying what appears to be the imprint of a man's naked body, fore and aft. As a quick web search will show you, many, many people continue to believe that this is the actual burial cloth of Jesus of Nazareth.
They continue to believe this in spite of the fact that three separate C-14 tests performed in three different laboratories in 1988 proved the cloth to be of medieval origin.
They continue to believe this in spite of the fact that, counter to all historical likelihood, the figure shown on the cloth looks exactly like conventional Western representations of Jesus.
They continue to believe this despite the fact that an actual human body laid out on a cloth wouldn't produce an imprint looking anything like what we see on the “shroud.”
Take a look at the image's “butt,” (lower right). Looks like a (skinny) butt, right?
(“I've seen Jesus' butt. Now I can die happy,” a Christian friend recently quipped.)
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Here it is: http://witchesandpagans.com/pagan-culture-blogs/paganistan/stories-that-tell-themselves.html
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...who, as he was burning at the stake, turned his face toward the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, beneath which (as we now know
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In "The Second Messiah" by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas the authors argue that the figure on the shroud is actually Jacques d
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