Pellegrino Ernetti (1925-1994) was a Roman Catholic priest and a Benedictine monk who in 1972 claimed to have invented a time machine called the Chronovisor.
Ernetti had a photograph for which he claimed was of Jesus Christ dying on the cross which he had taken using the device.
He also used the Chronovisor to view historical events such as the trial and crucifixion of Jesus; speeches by Napoleon, Mussolini, and others; a performance of a long-lost play by the Roman poet Ennius; and more.
Ernetti also told reporters that the Chronovisor no longer exists. Fearful of such a powerful technology falling into the wrong hands, Ernetti disassembled it and hid the pieces away.
The alleged photo of Jesus, which was published in the 1972 magazine article, was quickly recognized as a closeup of the face of Jesus on a known wooden sculpture.
The text of the supposed play by Ennius contains a number of Latin words that had not yet existed at the time Ennius wrote the play; meaning that whatever the source of this text, it was written at least 250 years after Ennius.
Ernetti had a photograph for which he claimed was of Jesus Christ dying on the cross which he had taken using the device.
He also used the Chronovisor to view historical events such as the trial and crucifixion of Jesus; speeches by Napoleon, Mussolini, and others; a performance of a long-lost play by the Roman poet Ennius; and more.
Ernetti also told reporters that the Chronovisor no longer exists. Fearful of such a powerful technology falling into the wrong hands, Ernetti disassembled it and hid the pieces away.
The alleged photo of Jesus, which was published in the 1972 magazine article, was quickly recognized as a closeup of the face of Jesus on a known wooden sculpture.
The text of the supposed play by Ennius contains a number of Latin words that had not yet existed at the time Ennius wrote the play; meaning that whatever the source of this text, it was written at least 250 years after Ennius.
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"
