Posted on 04/30/2024 11:08:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Actor Rob Schneider, who recently converted to Catholicism, announced he’s working on a new film about the Shroud of Turin.
A printing (right) and a negative (left) of the Shroud of Turin. Photo Credit: אסף.צ, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
If you are unfamiliar with The Shroud of Turin it is believed to be the burial shroud that wrapped the body of Jesus Christ after his Crucifixion. In 1988 a carbon dating test that was done on the shroud cast doubt that the Shroud was authentic.
According to Schneider the film will focus on research done by Shroud expert Joe Marino and his wife that showed that the carbon dating test was done on a piece of cloth that had been repaired by French nuns centuries after Christ’s Crucifixion.
Schneider shared he’s been working on the film for five years and “it’s a true story about Joe Marino and his wife who basically proved that the scientists tested the cloth in the wrong place and they didn’t put into their equation in the carbon dating that the French nuns had repaired this cloth with newer cloth and it is what the French called a ‘French invisible weave.'”
“And if you can imagine the dedication of these French nuns in preparing the actual burial cloth of their Lord, that they would dedicate absolute perfection in their work and they did. And that was where it was tested,” he elaborated. “And so they had new cloth and new strands of cloth that were weaved into this 2000-year-old Egyptian linen. And so that threw the carbon dating off. So each of the pieces that were cut, the deeper that it went in, the further it went back in time.”
Schneider concluded, “So this person Joe Marino was able to really come to a new understanding of why that dating was wrong.”
Comedian Rob Schneider performs for Joint Task Force Guantanamo Troopers at the Camp Bulkeley Lyceum, May 30, as part of a two-day tour hosted by Morale, Welfare & Recreation Guantanamo Bay. (National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Alexandria Hughes/112th MPAD/JTF GTMO PAO)
The actor then shared, “I’ve been trying to make this for years. It’s getting closer now. And I’d like to make it in 2024. It’s such a great story that hopefully it’ll bring more people into the faith or at least an openness to what this really is, the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. It really is. It’s actual tangible proof.”
“When I was working on that, it was working as an entertainment piece and a really interesting story and then it became a broadening of my faith and it became a powerful thing that, I don’t know how else to say it, it was breathed into me. … It’s a remarkable thing and like I said really the best description of it I’ve ever heard was, it’s the receipt. And that’s why it’s been tried to be destroyed many times,” he finished.
Earlier in the interview, Schneider expressed, “Hopefully, this movie about the Shroud will happen because I think it’s about faith. And I think we need that and to bring more people to it. Not to necessarily preach to them, but to just show the actual sacrifice and to talk about what the core of Christianity is, is loving others.”
Rob Schneider speaking with attendees at the 2023 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
What do you make of Rob Schneider making a film about the Shroud of Turin?
That should be interesting.
this guy?
Saturday Night Live alum Rob Schneider is refusing to apologize after recent reports claimed that his stand-up routine was cut short at a holiday gala in 2023 after Republican lawmakers found it “off-color and off-putting.”
“I’m not changing my material or apologizing for my jokes to anybody. Enough with this woke bulls‑‑‑. America’s sick of it,” Schneider told TMZ.
that said, i miss norm mcdonald.
I might finally go see a movie again. It’s been decades. Standing In the Shadows of Motown was the last one.
Among other things nearly or equally miraculous, the shroud in question documents the very moment of Christ’s resurrection.
Jesus...making shrouds...
The shroudenator...
The Lord!
God bless Rob.
Are you mocking the Shroud? I hope not. It is the actual burial cloth of Christ. I am not Catholic, but this is simply a fact.
The Shroud ‘failed’ the carbon dating tests, but it used an edge that could have been re-woven. Or, the resurrection process may have altered the makeup of the cloth.
Ok. While I agree he can make raunchy jokes about Asians because he’s part Asian, don’t come back and pretend to be a Christian and teach me about Christ. What kind of Christianity allows that sort of dichotomy?
I’m a devout Christian, but I doubt the authenticity of the shroud.
Oh, I really want to see that one. You liked it?
The samples used for the carbon dating were all taken from the re-woven area. AFTER everyone had already agreed that this was the one part of the Shroud *not* to take samples from.
Second, the testing was done at three different labs. All three labs gave different ages for their own sample: and the age given by each lab, was outside of the error bars of the other labs.
Can you say “systematic error”?
The shroouuuudd...you know the shroouuuud. It's a copyyyyy, you know the copyyyyyyy, of Jesus' faaaaaaccccce.
i did this in college...
“Mother Superior, I’ll give you $50 for that shroud”
It’s to prove a point... we’ll wash this half of the shroud in your detergent and this half in new Tide. to show new tide works better on getting out those supernatural impressions.
See? all clean
That is fine. Not required. I have read myriad books over the years on the Shroud, and there remains not a shred of evidence which suggests inauthenticity.
Paul had Christians KILLED. But he never made raunchy jokes, as far as we know. So, we can trust him, but not Rob? Follow the evidence. Nothing else matters.
Correct, all the evidence for in-authenticity has been easily debunked, although it took several years to debunk the radio carbon dating. The sample was just too contaminated.
Paul had Christians killed BEFORE he became a Christian, at which time his sins were forgiven, and he no longer had Christians killed. Schneider claims to be a Christian, having recently been converted, yet continues his raunchy, unchristian behavior. I question who his spiritual advisors are, who have not taught him the necessity of stopping pre-Christian sinful behaviors. We all sin, but we our souls are in danger when we deliberately continue our pre-Christian sins.
The former.
And, as you suggested, the portion selected for use in dating the shroud had been expertly, diligently, and reverently rewoven many centuries ago.
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