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Dear Mr. Chamish:
I have received your article regarding the Shroud of
Turin and its purported origins in Jerusalem, as the
actual burial cloth of Jesus. In the first place, the
Shroud has been demonstrated repeatedly to be a 14th
century fraud. In the second place, Jesus Christ is a
fictional character, as I demonstrate in my upcoming
book "The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever
Sold" ( http://www.truthbeknown.com/christ.htm ). The
original dissertation of my book may be found at
http://www.truthbeknown.com/origins.htm and relevant
links at http://www.truthbeknown.com/christcon.htm .
I have also included an excerpt below from my book
regarding the Shroud and other Church forgeries. It
would be very beneficial to the human species if this
information were widely understood and disseminated,
rather than the pablum currently being spoonfed.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
The Shroud of Turin and Other "Holy Relics"
In its quest to create a religion to gain power and
wealth, the Church forgery mill did not limit itself
to mere writings but for centuries cranked out
thousands of phony "relics" of its "Lord," "Apostles"
and "Saints." Although true believers desperately
keep attempting to prove otherwise, through one
implausible theory after another, the Shroud of Turin
is counted among this group of frauds:
"There were at least 26 'authentic' burial shrouds
scattered throughout the abbeys of Europe, of which
the Shroud of Turin is just one. . . . The Shroud of
Turin is one of the many relics manufactured for
profit during the Middle Ages. Shortly after the
Shroud emerged it was declared a fake by the bishop
who discovered the artist. This is verified by recent
scientific investigation which found paint in the
image areas. The Shroud of Turin is also not
consistent with Gospel accounts of Jesus' burial,
which clearly refer to multiple cloths and a separate
napkin over his face."
As Gerald Larue says:
"Carbon-14 dating has demonstrated that the Shroud is
a 14th-century forgery and is one of many such
deliberately created relics produced in the same
period, all designed to attract pilgrims to specific
shrines to enhance and increase the status and
financial income of the local church."
Walker comments on the holy relic mill:
"About the beginning of the 9th century, bones, teeth,
hair, garments, and other relics of fictitious saints
were conveniently 'found' all over Europe and Asia and
triumphantly installed in the reliquaries of every
church, until all Catholic Europe was falling to its
knees before what Calvin called its anthill of bones.
. . . St. Luke was touted as one of the ancient
world's most prolific artists, to judge from the
numerous portraits of the Virgin, painted by him, that
appeared in many churches. Some still remain, despite
ample proof that all such portraits were actually
painted during the Middle Ages."
And Wells states:
"About 1200, Constantinople was so crammed with relics
that one may speak of a veritable industry with its
own factories. Blinzler (a Catholic New Testament
scholar) lists, as examples: letters in Jesus' own
hand, the gold brought to the baby Jesus by the wise
men, the twelve baskets of bread collected after the
miraculous feeding of the 5000, the throne of David,
the trumpets of Jericho, the axe with which Noah made
the Ark, and so on. . . "
At one point, a number of churches claimed the one
foreskin of Jesus, and there were enough splinters of
the "True Cross" that Calvin said the amount of wood
would make "a full load for a good ship." The
disgraceful list of absurdities and frauds goes on,
and, as Pope Leo X exclaimed, the Christ fable has
been enormously profitable for the Church. Again, it
must be asked why force, forgery and fraud were needed
to spread the "good news" brought by a "historical son
of God."
Acharya S
Archaeologist, Historian, Mythologist, Linguist
Member, American School of Classical Studies at
Athens, Greece
Associate Director, Institute for Historical Accuracy
http://www.truthbeknown.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: barry chamish
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 8:11 AM
> To: Derrel Sims
> Subject: shroud
>
>
> SHROUD OF TURIN FROM JERUSALEM
> by Barry Chamish
>
> Research by Avinoam Danin of Hebrew University
and Uri Barach of the
> State Of Israel Antiquities Department appears to
shore the case that the
> Shroud Of Turin could well have been used to wrap
the body of
> Jesus. The two
> examined pollen grains collected from the Shroud in
the mid-1970s and
> discovered they could only be from plants unique to
the Jerusalem region.
> Most of the pollen found was from a thorny
thistle, Gundelia
> tournefortii, foundly only in Israel. This is the
same plant the
> Romans used
> often to make their crowns of thorns. The scientists
also
> detected an image
> in the shroud showing the leaves of Zygophyllum
dumosom, a plant found in
> the Jerusalem region. The sum total of the pollens
and plant images
> pinpoints the shroud's most likely origin in
Jerusalem. The
> growth stage of
> the plants coincides with the months March and
April, the date of the
> Passover Festival, during which Jesus was crucified.
> Says Baruch, "These plants lead us to state that
the Shroud Of Turin
> existed before the 8th Century and that it
originated in the vicinity of
> Jerusalem."
>
> end
>
>
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