Posted on 09/13/2007 9:14:42 AM PDT by Between the Lines
And a malformed ping it was, too.
Occasionally, some HTML get's lost between my computer and FreeRepublic and I get the mess you see above. Dadburnit. (I've always wonder what Dad burned... I think I will go research it...)
LOLOL!
Whow. I cannot find the etymology of "dadburnit" on the internet... and only 3,330 pages that even use it! Well, now with this FreeRepublic thread, 3,331.
Trying "definition +dadburnit" got me only 89 hits on the entire WWW for sites that include both words... and "etymology +dadburnit" returned only 7!
Gollygee, goldang and geewhilikers, Alamo, this is a word that's in danger of extinction. We have to do something!
Do you the the Federal Endangered Species list would be interested???
Isn’t that the plot of a movie or something?
Ummm, I didn’t find a single anti-Roman Catholic swipe in the whole article. Some Romanists have a thin skin when it comes to Evangelicals perhaps?
From Wikipedia:
“It was the property of the House of Savoy until 1983, when it was given to the Holy See.”
From another shroud site:
“The Roman Catholic Church is the current owner of the Shroud of Turin. It was given to the Church by the House of Savoy, the owners of the shroud since 1453, in 1983.”
Before this time its ownership, like a lot of relics in medieval times, is universally agreed to have been in private (usually Royal) hands.
You might want to check your facts out before going on a rant next time.
Since the Bishop of Rome’s church claims to be the one true church, isn’t EVERYTHING technically, according to this doctrine, “under the authority of the (Roman) Catholic Church?”
Yoniping to #8.
My issue was with the word “authority.” The Shroud of Turin did not reside in some private chapel as has been claimed. While it remained the property of the Savoy family, it has resided in the Cathedral of Turin for the past 400 years. It was under no religious authority but the Catholic Church.
The claim therefore that the shroud has been something other than a Catholic relic betrays a bias against Catholicism. Apparently the author thought it important to distance this Catholic relic from Catholicism for his evangelical audience which would likely be dismissive of anything smacking of Catholicism.
I know whereof I speak. I grew up a Catholic in rural Virginia. I know well the evangelical mind which has a knee jerk negative reaction to all things Catholic.
If you are having trouble seeing how such a comment intended to distance the Shroud from the Catholic Church is related to an anti Catholic bias, then you demonstrate my original point that evangelicals are so deep in their antiCatholicism that that are blind to it.
Romanists???? Wow, your anti-Catholicism even expresses itself in Elizabethan era slurs. It's disgusting, but still, I'm rather impressed with the size of the rock your kin must have been under for the past 500 years.
Attributing motives and reading minds are types of "making it personal."
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Pfft. Allegory. People like allegories because one can read into them whatever one wants to read into them. And then voila! with the right person "unlocking" the mystery it magically fits a predetermined pattern! Amazing!
This "research" has red flags all over it, and it seems solely designed to prove a point of dubious worth. It is the artistic version of the Bible Code.
This theorist apparently understands very little about the personalities, goals and beliefs of the two main players in the Sistine Chapel projects, Michaelangelo and Pope Julius II. If we begin at the beginning, there’s no way to get to this ending.
Good point....there’s reason enough for skepticism right there.
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