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The holy foreskin of Jesus
February 19, 2012 at 11:54 pm
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.
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."
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Boy am I glad I was raised in a predominately Jewish area.
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RE: The holy foreskin of Jesus
February 20, 2012 at 12:03 am
What is even funnier is that the male jeebus freaks don't get circumcised ....so much for emulating christ *pfft
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RE: The holy foreskin of Jesus
February 20, 2012 at 12:09 am
Ziploc Surprise Wrote:They attribute miracles like that of a perfumed fog that overtook the village one day to this magical foreskin
Makes sense.
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RE: The holy foreskin of Jesus
February 20, 2012 at 12:15 am
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
