From the Department of Ersatz Relics, a new development:
The Shroud of Turin has been reproduced by an Italian scientist in another attempt to prove that the cloth bearing an image of Christ’s face is a fake.
A professor of organic chemistry at the University of Pavia said he had used materials and techniques that were available in the Middle Ages.
These included applying pigment to cloth and then heating it in an oven.
Tests 20 years ago dated the fabric to between 1260 and 1390, but believers say it is an authentic image of Christ.
This reminds me of 1991, when two men revealed that they were responsible for making all those crop circles. If anyone doubted them, they went ahead and demonstrated how they’d done it, using ropes and boards. By showing how they could have faked the crop circles, they essentially discredited the alien hypothesis in the minds of most people. Occam’s Razor and all that.
If anyone still believes that the shroud is authentic, I suppose this won’t convince them. But now it’s been shown that it dates to no earlier than medieval times, and could have been made with the technology of that time. Occam’s Razor suggests that this is the most likely scenario.
h/t to Jessica
7 October 2009 at 2:08 am
I am really and truly sick of those who look for whatever excuse they can to deny the fact that God exists and he is real. This tops the cake with their asinine thinking of how the Shroud of Turin is fake because they were able to make a mockery [replica] of it. I hope that Italian scientist enjoys his 15 minutes of fame and the money he was paid to utter horrible blasphemies. I would not even be a bit surprised if he's one of the scientists involved in making a body/clone for the Antichrist.
I encourage anyone who has ears to hear and eyes to see with to get a copy of the book called Antichrist: The Cloned Image of Jesus Christ by Joye Jeffries Pugh. The book discusses the Shroud of Turin and the coming Cloned Antichrist. The greatest deception that the world has ever seen is coming.
7 October 2009 at 7:37 am
It's simple, CB. Making a fake shroud doesn't mean that the original is fake. But for anyone who claims that there is no way it could have been faked, this removes that argument.
The antichrist book sounds interesting. I wasn't able to find much information about it besides this link. (I have to say, when I searched for that book, Google had changed its graphic to a bar code — in honour of the invention of same — and it kind of freaked me out.)
Can you tell me more about it? I'm wondering if the Antichrist has to be cloned, or can it come the normal way like Antichrists usually do.
8 October 2009 at 5:47 am
CB, an Italian scientist discovered that it was possible to fake the Shroud of Turin. Can you tell me how this links in any way to creating a Clone of the Antichrist?
And just another question which I've always been curious about… How has the Shroud of Turin been kept intact after 2000 years? It's just a piece of cloth.
13 October 2009 at 1:18 am
The shroud remains intact because it is an artifact of Christ. It's not 'just a piece of cloth', it's a piece of cloth that has touched holiness. One that remains specifically for the purpose of gracing the faithful.
This mockery of the shroud is obviously possible only because it is necessary to test believers, sorting the faithful from the faithless. God kindly gives us these opportunities to see people for what they truly are.
As for the Antichrist – clearly he's already here, and they just gave him a Nobel prize! Yet another example of the learned liberals aligning themselves with Godlessness and Satan.