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...rating Christian relics: In the Catholic Church, "there came to be three distinct kinds: first class, second class, and third class, with further scales of value evident but less formally defined within each class. First class relics include any object that may have had contact with Jesus Christ during his life, death or resurrection: wood from the stable where legend says he was born; pieces of the cross or nails used for his crucifixion; the Shroud of Turin, which the faithful believe wrapped his body before it was set in the tomb ... Had John the Baptist worn a watch...
...renaissance of relic forgery ... Many of these forgeries are convincing to all but the most seasoned experts in the field, and even a few of them have been fooled," Manseau writes, adding, "The problem of fake relics goes well beyond bones. Throughout the 1980s and '90s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was shaken by the exposure of forged documents related to its founding. The counterfeiter responsible for the fakes was a disgruntled Mormon missionary ... He created and sold titillating documents - including one that purported to show that LDS founder Joseph Smith practiced magic. In [Mark William...
Only six months ago, we thought we might be on the verge of a remarkable new era - thanks to the possible election of Obama. It is bizarre how secondary that epochal change now seems. It's as if Jesus had returned - but just afterward extraterrestrials landed, and as a result everybody stopped paying much attention to the holy dude. But it's also a perfectly apt and gratifying turn of events: candidate Obama positioned himself as a smart, steady character who happened to be black, and the economic emergency that helped ensure his election has pushed the fact...
...hidden things. But they're very arbitrary, even those things. So they have to be in concert with something else. And typically what priests look for is what they call the aversion to the sacred, which is a person's inability to pray, to say the name of Jesus or Mary, to even look at the priest. Typically, when the person comes to see them, it's the last thing they want to do. They tend to have gone to see many doctors in search of a medical cure for whatever is afflicting them. They don't believe that...
...goes against the Judaic exhortation to "go forth and multiply." Says Elior: "It doesn't make sense that you have thousands of people living against the Jewish law and there's no mention of them in any of the Jewish texts and sources of that period." (Read "Is This Jesus's Tomb...