(September 26, 2023 at 2:46 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Next.
for example, historian from Turin, Andrea Nicolotti, says:
no. it is not really the burial shroud of jesus christ. that is in fact the opinion not only of myself but most people who study it.
there are three ways that we can say it is not really the burial shroud of jesus christ:
1 there is no testimony of the shroud that dates from before the middle ages and in fact those that do exist from the middle ages say that the shroud is a fake it is not a real relic.
2 textile itself the type or style of weave of the shroud is typical of the middle ages and does not exist back in antiquity at the time of jesus christ.
3 in 1988 the shroud was carbon dated and the results of the carbon dated verified what we already knew which is that the shroud derives from the medieval period
also, if someone can do an experiment by actually putting some paint on their own face then pressing a cloth against it and what you would see is something very deformed, not at all like what we see on this on the shroud of Turin.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
