Members MsAnn Posted March 1, 2015 Members Share Posted March 1, 2015 9PM ET/PT Not that any affirmative answers will filter through, but I still think it will be interesting TV. http://www.cnn.com/shows/finding-jesus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TampaYankee Posted March 4, 2015 Members Share Posted March 4, 2015 Seen lots on this in previous years. It seems to be an original fake or a fake original. Although 'ancient' by modern standards, it seems to be several hundreds of years younger than needed to be authentic, either created to sell the 'Jesus meme', original fake, or somehow created independent of the 'meme' but later adopted by believers or scammers, fake original. Bottom line, at least for me at this time: it is authentic but not Jesus, being created several hundred years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 One hypothesis that fits with the radiocarbon dating to an origin in the late 1300s was that it was created for use as a prop in one of the Easter Passion pageants popular at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MsAnn Posted March 4, 2015 Author Members Share Posted March 4, 2015 So far I found the first episode shallow and uninformative. More of a commercial trailer than anything else. CNN is going to get a lot of mileage out of this. Is it too late to delete a thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 So far I found the first episode shallow and uninformative. More of a commercial trailer than anything else. CNN is going to get a lot of mileage out of this. Is it too late to delete a thread? Not too surprising. If they outright said the thing is from the 13th century, they would piss off a lot of viewers. "Fair and balanced!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MsGuy Posted March 4, 2015 Members Share Posted March 4, 2015 Sprinkle the shroud with some Lourdes holy water and then have the Pope scratch it three times with St. Peter's knuckle bone. If it doesn't burst into flames, it must be authentic. Problem solved. MsAnn and AdamSmith 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 One dare not wonder what effect the Holy Prepuce would have. ...According to an unconfirmed 19th-century source,[9][10] in the late 17th century the Vatican librarian Leo Allatius wrote an unpublished[11] treatise entitled De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (A Discussion of the Foreskin of Our Lord Jesus Christ), claiming that the Holy Prepuce ascended, like Jesus himself, and was transformed into the rings of Saturn... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
