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RE: Relic to return to Bethlehem in time for Christmas
November 30, 2019 at 11:02 pm
(November 30, 2019 at 6:33 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Thank goodness. That's the crucial missing piece to the Nativity Scene they haven't been able to put up in years. What a relief. Whew! Thank you Father Pope.
Now they just need the dinosaurs right, Ken Ham?
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RE: Relic to return to Bethlehem in time for Christmas
November 30, 2019 at 11:10 pm
(November 30, 2019 at 10:22 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: A fragment of wood believed to have formed part of Jesus' manger is set to be returned to Bethlehem after more than 1,000 years in Europe. ..
Pope Francis ordered the return of the thumb-sized relic from Rome's Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore as a gift.
The relic had been in Rome since the 7th Century.
It was briefly put on display in Jerusalem before continuing its journey to Bethlehem to coincide with the start of Christmas celebrations there.
Officials said it would now be kept in the Franciscan Church of St Catherine, next to the Church of the Nativity, where tradition says Jesus was born.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-50600025
I wonder if anyone has thought to have it carbon dated?
My favorite part of this is "where tradition says Jesus was born."
Not history, not facts, not etchings on tables buried in the desert, not the words of the local goatherder...but tradition.
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RE: Relic to return to Bethlehem in time for Christmas
November 30, 2019 at 11:31 pm
(November 30, 2019 at 6:38 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I don't doubt that, with a good enough cover story, I could convince the Church that one of the scraps from my woodshop is a bit of Jesus' first tricycle.
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I have a block of myrtle wood. Maybe we can join up and get possession of a golden chalice or something in trade?
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RE: Relic to return to Bethlehem in time for Christmas
December 1, 2019 at 12:09 am
And what about Jesus' manager? Where do they keep his bones?
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: Relic to return to Bethlehem in time for Christmas
December 1, 2019 at 7:22 am
The fragments of the True Cross are plentiful enough to build an Ark.
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RE: Relic to return to Bethlehem in time for Christmas
December 2, 2019 at 8:31 am
(December 1, 2019 at 7:22 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The fragments of the True Cross are plentiful enough to build an Ark.
Mark Twain said something to that effect.
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RE: Relic to return to Bethlehem in time for Christmas
December 7, 2019 at 5:48 pm
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Yea they must have also found virgin Mary's pee stick
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RE: Relic to return to Bethlehem in time for Christmas
December 8, 2019 at 7:52 am
Are they getting the holy turkey baster god used to knock up Mary?