...the blue eyes...


Just sayin'

The news story mentioned specifically that Boy Jesus was a blond, blue-eyed child.

So maybe there is something to that ancient gossip about Mary and a Roman soldier...

And all this, from that absolutely gen-u-wine, unimpeachable historical source...the Shroud of Turin.

Suggestion for their next historical project: I've read that, at one point in the Middle Ages, no less than 42 churches claimed to own the foreskin of Jesus.

Researchers, go and find the real one.

5 teams, 1 real foreskin, 30 days across Europe.

to not accept the results of the dating done in 1988. The blonde/blue eyed thing really makes me laugh.

The Shroud of Turin was proved to be a fake using radiocarbon dating... which the Vatican then contested in so many different ways.

In 1988, scientists at three separate laboratories dated samples from the Shroud to a range of AD1260–1390, which coincides with the first appearance of the shroud in France in the 1350s.

Of course, of course... you are right to point out that I'm lacking in faith... I shall go self-flagellate now to bolster my failing faith.

(that's what we are supposed to do right?)

The Shroud of Turin is a Real Fake. Not a Fake Fake.

Because they NEED to believe, you see. Guess their faith is just fragile.

My father is religious, but he's also smart. He doesn't believe that the Shroud of Turin is real and still manages to believe in god. He just doesn't need to believe that an object is somehow proof of his faith. It's possible that this is because he's Baptist, though... Martin Luther changed a lot in the break away from the Catholic church... including belief in "relics".

If you can't be religious without having to have physical proof (as in relics), then are you really "faithful"?

It's best just to drop the whole ancient superstition thing altogether.


Re-channel all the mountains of energy it takes to keep such ancient guesses viable into something like...oh ..art, music or...I know Science!

Howcome all I see is a naked emperor?

What ridiculous bullshit.

Can I be President of the Xenu, the Dictator of the Galactic Confederacy Project?

What's the salary? What are the hours?

I know what he looks like, there's a BBC picture!:



(He could have blue eyes. How much is it worth?)

it's like he doesn't exist at all or something?

I'll give it a try.

I tried that and my computer just sank into the swamp.


Besides, I know Yodda hates me and has been eating my stuff out of the break room fridge!