(July 28, 2018 at 10:17 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(July 28, 2018 at 9:55 pm)Graufreud Wrote: Well, there are numerous relics of saints. Why can't we have fossilized foreskin of Jesus? 

and sorry chimp, Jesus is more special than you will ever be.

Several reasons why we don't have the fossilized foreskin of Jesus:

1. Soft tissues rarely fossilize, except under very special circumstances.

2. Desert environs don't promote fossilization very well.

3.  2000 years isn't enough time for anything to be fossilized.

4. Jesus' foreskin is about as likely to be discovered as (for example) King Arthur's nose or Gilgamesh's pinky finger.

And - for the record - chimp is far more special and valuable than Jesus.

Boru

What small minds you have.   Do you truly think the god will allow his own foreskin to molder in the sands of Judea?   No, like Hercules of old, the holy foreskin has its place in heaven!

Quote:In the late 17th century the Vatican librarian Leo Allatius wrote an unpublished[16] treatise entitled De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba (A Discussion of the Foreskin of Our Lord Jesus Christ), claiming that the Holy Prepuce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.

As an aside, what else could a theologian think of when looking through an telescope than parts of the virile organ?

He was probably stroking his organ while he was looking through the telescope.

(July 29, 2018 at 11:11 am)Minimalist Wrote: He was probably stroking his organ while he was looking through the telescope.

Where was the altar boy?

Quote:What small minds you have.   Do you truly think the god will allow his own foreskin to molder in the sands of Judea?   No, like Hercules of old, the holy foreskin has its place in heaven!

There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the foreskin of Jesus and that of Hercules met with precisely that same fate.

Boru

(July 28, 2018 at 10:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: On his travels throughout Europe and the Holy Land, Mark Twain observed that, if all the pieces of the 'True Cross' he encountered were genuine, Jesus was crucified on a cross about ninety feet high.

Holy relics deserved to be viewed with more than a modicum of skepticism.

Boru

Or He was crucified twice on 45' crosses . . .

Heck, God was playing favorites with Cain and Abel:

Genesis 4 (KJV)
4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Churches have lightening rods. You don't really have to go any deeper than that.