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Christmas: CNN presents The Shroud of Turin is REAL I tellz ya!!! REAL!!! (Original Post) Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2015 OP
Silly scientests and their evidence... nt uriel1972 Dec 2015 #1
Ugh. progressoid Dec 2015 #2
Shroudies! The Shroud Crowd! onager Dec 2015 #3
That's the special all right.... Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2015 #4
Well neither was he... uriel1972 Dec 2015 #5
I guess he figures Jack Van Impe was there.... Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2015 #6

onager

(9,356 posts)
3. Shroudies! The Shroud Crowd!
Sat Dec 26, 2015, 10:14 AM
Dec 2015


I'm assuming this thing was - much like the coming week's turkey many of us will be eating - a re-run. Of the CNN turkey "Finding Jesus" originally shown back in March 2015.

Great review of it:

Disappointing. This is, I believe, the most appropriate way to start my review of the recent CNN documentary on the Shroud of Turin. After 25 years of reading books, watching films and writing books and articles on this presumed relic of Christ, I am still surprised to listen to the very same popular quackery and pseudoscience passed off as rock solid scholarly researches...

The burial shrouds of Jesus number around 40. All of them were authentic, of course. The most famous shrouds were those of Aachen, Halberstadt, Hannover and Mainz (Germany), Arles, Besançon, Cadouin, Aix-en-Provence, Bayonne, Cahors, Paris, Reims, Annecy, Soissons, Carcassonne and Compiègne (France), Yohnannavank (Armenia), Constantinople, Enxobregas (Portugal), Saint John in Lateran (Rome), Einsiedeln (Switzerland).

And this comment explains why so many Buy-bull experts REALLY appear on these shows:

Having years of experience on the shroud question, tombs, and living here in Israel, I asked one of those academics involved, why he would become involved in such a thing in which every archaeologist knows it's medieval. His reply 'why not, its a free trip to the US'.


http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/2015/03/lom398011.shtml
 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
4. That's the special all right....
Sat Dec 26, 2015, 01:28 PM
Dec 2015

Meanwhile, I have to put up with a guy who thinks he's a scholar because he watches Jack Van Impe.

It was a, "You weren't there! You don't know!" argument.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
6. I guess he figures Jack Van Impe was there....
Sat Dec 26, 2015, 02:14 PM
Dec 2015

This guy acts like you have to respect people with money.

"They obviously know more than you because they're rich."

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