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Saint Peter's Bones
September 13, 2015 at 5:29 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2015 at 8:57 pm by rexbeccarox.)
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"
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RE: Saint Peter's Bones
September 13, 2015 at 6:54 am
Drowning men will grasp at the slenderest of reeds.
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RE: Saint Peter's Bones
September 13, 2015 at 8:00 am
No argument that Pius was a terrible human being, that the myths regarding Peter's bones are just that, and that the Church has long perpetuated this (and other) deliberate frauds. HOWEVER...
That doesn't excuse you, FM, for copying verbatim someone else's work and passing it off as your own. You lifted this from 'God's Bankers', by Gerald Posner. Shame on you.
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RE: Saint Peter's Bones
September 13, 2015 at 7:18 pm
The pope know's there is chicken bones inside of that box
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RE: Saint Peter's Bones
September 13, 2015 at 7:22 pm
When will they find the talking donkey's bones?
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RE: Saint Peter's Bones
September 13, 2015 at 7:59 pm
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Nice to see you're back, Randy.
And how would you go about proving these to be the bones of Saint Peter? Is there any kind of Peter DNA analysis I'm not aware of?
And no, I'm not looking up what John Evangelist Walsh wrote in 1982. That's a lot of water under the bridge since then. And the name hints at just a little bit of bias. There were up to 18 prepuces attributed to Jesus. So either Jesus had a prick to make an elephant proud or the whole relique business is just what it looks like - a lucrative way to rip people off.
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RE: Saint Peter's Bones
September 13, 2015 at 8:43 pm
What about St. Peter's Boner?
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