Posted on 03/11/2002 3:23:31 PM PST by Madiuq
An American researcher who believes she has found the final resting place of Jesus Christ is campaigning to exhume a body at a Muslim shrine in Kashmir for scientific tests. Suzanne Marie Olsson, a New York-based researcher is currently in Srinagar, studying the Muslim shrine of Rozabal. While Muslims say Rozabal houses the tomb of Yuza Asaf, a Muslim saint, many researchers believe it contains the body of Jesus Christ. To put an end to speculation Olsson has suggested exhuming the remains at Rozabal for DNA testing and carbon dating. "This will trace him (the saint) to his origin ... and resolve the raging controversy over the identity of the place forever," she told the Sunday edition of Kashmir's leading daily, the Greater Kashmir. Olsson has already dug up a shrine at the Murree hill station in Pakistan under the supervision of archaeologists Ahmad Hassan Dani and Saida Rahman. Muree is believed to be the resting place of Jesus' mother, Mary (Marium). "The exhumed remains have been sent for the DNA testing and the report is awaited," she told the newspaper. "Now Rozabal holds the key. If the remains there are sent for testing and then tallied with the results of the Murree project, it will either establish the link between the two shrines as being of similar origin and thus authenticate the Marium-Jesus theory or prove it wrong for good." However, her project has run into trouble with the managers of the Rozabal shrine, who are strongly opposed to its "desecration". "We will never allow it," said Mohammed Amin, one of the managers. But Olsson, stressing the "purely scientific nature of her work" and her identity as a "seeker of truth", is pleading to be allowed to "verify the origin and identity of the saint" to put to rest wild speculation. She has even written to Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah for help. Olsson also believes Moses is buried in Bandipore in north Kashmir, the Islamic prophet Haroun at Harwan, on the outskirts of Srinagar, and Solomon at Takht-i-Suliaman in Srinagar. "You have more Christian holy sites than even Egypt or Israel," she said in her appeal to the chief minister. Olsson says she wants to unravel the truth about the shrines so that the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir, ravaged by a decade-long Muslim insurgency that has claimed 35,000 lives, can become a pilgrimage centre for Christians and Muslims.
Well, since it's phonetically transcribed from Hebrew, it could very well be 'aitch'. Definitely not 'eh'. 'ecce'? Qu'est-ce que c'est? Furthermore, scientists are almost certain it isn't 'Harry'!
Hillary Clinton is a United States Senator! (That's news enough to sober a drunken madman! Hopefully, it won't lead to a crying jag...
Hey! I'm a grown boy! I can take it (just so long as you don't post a picture of her!) LOL!
As is well known to serious theologians everywhere, The House of the Holy Family is in Loreto, Sicily. This archeotheologian is going to tell ME that JH Christ and the Virgin Mary would prefer curries and camel meat to the beautiful foods and wines of Sicily?
Tonight I go to Moretti's Restaurant, then I go to church and pray to St Anthony to help this woman find her mind. To St. Lucy to recover her eyesight, and to San Jose, where she shoulda never left.
In the future, this blasphemous science slut should restrict her activities to finding dinosaur feathers. Leave the religious stuff to me.
Wendover, Utah/Nevada.
Another keen mind willing to join the research team! Super!
P.S; Franchio, your cost of the "expedition" comes to $12,434.27 (cash payments only! ... I can make change for a dollar if that helps?)
Seriously, I think we're on to this "researchers" racket! (Why she picked Kashmir is beyond me though...LOL!)
Holy Cow! I think the Worthy Oriental Gentleman is attempting an insult!
Nonsense my friend! Nonsense I say! The culinary arts play no part in this expeditition! It's your money...err, your interst in TRUTH that is more important!
P.S. I have lived in Italy (proper) and I can assure you that the taint of a "Sicilian influence" will not be a road-block to this important project!
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT AN ATTORNEY...JUST SEND THE MONEY!
P.P.S. A "Theologian" will do you no good...as they are only in it for the "greater-good"...whatever that means!
Go hump your camel.
As to your incredibly gross remarks regarding the camel, PETA will be immediately notified. As to the suggested actions: why that apparently has been tried in your family and we are now corresponding with the results of that tragic experiment.
Please refer to the rules of engagement of this forum in future. In the meantime, Top 'o' The Morning to you.
It's deductible, right?
Revelation 1:13
And in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band.
14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire;
15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters;
16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength.
17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last.
18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
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