(January 16, 2012 at 2:45 pm)Chuck Wrote: I am certain the archives of any nation that ever amounted to anything over many centuries would reveal vast quantities of skeletons whose revelation would shatter the reputation of that nation. But as the Catholic church trades on false reputation to much higher degree than any nation, I am sure Vatican archives would be the death of catholicism in the modern world to fully release.
As to weather they actually hold any material shattering the myth of the historic Jesus, I kinda doubt it for the same reason I doubt any one holds any material that might shatter the myth of the historic Hercules or snow white. Myth of Historic Jesus is to far removed from any whift of reality for reality to stoop to bother refuting it.
I have heard that somewhere in the Vatican there is a chest full of penises (peni?) Apparently,about 100 years ago a pope had the penises removed from all Vatican statues.
If one were to do some digging in the Vatican gardens, I'm fairly confident more than a few real skeletons would be found. A lot of Popes were really evil bastards.
