RE: Incorruptable bodies
December 18, 2016 at 8:22 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2016 at 8:24 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Several explanations fairly leap to mind:
1. Deliberate fraud.
2. Tannins.
3. Embalming.
4. Adipocere.
5. Anaerobic environments.
It is important to remember that NO bodies are 'incorruptible'. Due to conditions of burial or entombment, a (very) few select bodies may remain more or less incorrupt for a greater or less amount of time. But the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox belief in the incorruptibility of the body of particularly 'holy' people is simply a holdover from a more ignorant and credulous age.
Boru
Then why was the question about 'incorruptible corpes ' [sic]?
Boru
1. Deliberate fraud.
2. Tannins.
3. Embalming.
4. Adipocere.
5. Anaerobic environments.
It is important to remember that NO bodies are 'incorruptible'. Due to conditions of burial or entombment, a (very) few select bodies may remain more or less incorrupt for a greater or less amount of time. But the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox belief in the incorruptibility of the body of particularly 'holy' people is simply a holdover from a more ignorant and credulous age.
Boru
(December 18, 2016 at 8:16 am)RetiredArmy Wrote: I think it was an attempt at humor (worked?). You often hear the term "incorruptible bodies" in media, meaning a group of people which cannot be corrupted (BULLSHIT!). The question, I assume, is to poke fun at the term itself.
Then why was the question about 'incorruptible corpes ' [sic]?
Boru
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