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To: boatbums

Yes, I thought there were a lot of bits and pieces here and there. It puts in mind a comment by Mark Twain after a trip through the holy land...something to the effect that they had seen enough fragments of the “true cross” to build a cathedral. It seems to me these carcasses (or fragments thereof) are of little value other than as props for an organization or individual church to use in laying claim to the faith and any inherent authority resulting from that claim. That’s why I’m suspicious. It’s very convenient, and no doubt very powerful in an age of of pervasive illiteracy and superstition.


80 posted on 04/29/2013 5:06:18 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: Trod Upon; boatbums

Mark Twain is a comedy writer, — not a historian. The truth is that before the Protestant vandals and the Muslim vandals got to it, the Church possessed reasonably certain set of relics, as well as, of course, relics that could not be traced to the origin with certainty, and yes, relics build up our faith in the resurrection. This is why they are venerated.

The whole Protestantism is an exercise in buffoonery where the likes of Mark Twain serve as authority.


81 posted on 04/29/2013 6:46:50 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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