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The holy foreskin of Jesus
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The holy foreskin of Jesus
This is one of the craziest things I have read in a long time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreskin_of_Jesus Apparently people believe that someone had saved Jesus's foreskin when he was circumcised. They attribute miracles like that of a perfumed fog that overtook the village one day to this magical foreskin. They built a chapel for this foreskin and parade it around town from time to time. Confused Fall

What's even funnier is that quote "According to the author David Farley, "Depending on what you read, there were eight, twelve, fourteen, or even 18 different holy foreskins in various European towns during the Middle Ages."Confusedhock:

Boy am I glad I was raised in a predominately Jewish area.Cool Shades
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise

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RE: The holy foreskin of Jesus
What is even funnier is that the male jeebus freaks don't get circumcised ....so much for emulating christ *pfft
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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RE: The holy foreskin of Jesus
Ziploc Surprise Wrote:They attribute miracles like that of a perfumed fog that overtook the village one day to this magical foreskin

Makes sense.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: The holy foreskin of Jesus
Check out that pic! If that doesn't deserve to be turned into a demotivational, I don't know what does.

THE CIRCUMCISION OF CHRIST
BECAUSE EVEN JESUS WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOD
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."

-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
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