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PhilosopherJay · 08-01-2013, 08:51 AM

I woke up this morning to read about this amazing discovery, "A piece of Jesus' cross? Relics unearthed in Turkey"

I too have made an equally significant discovery which I will shortly reveal to the world. I have discovered a piece of wood from the hammer of Thor when he descended from Asgard and became Dr. Blake.

Warmly,

Jay Raskin

Toto · 08-01-2013, 09:16 AM

The journalist is more skeptical than the archaeologist:

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Turkish archaeologists say they have found a stone chest in a 1,350-year-old church that appears to contain a relic venerated as a piece of Jesus' cross.

There are many such relics, after all.

But the archaeologists appear to be off the deep end.

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“We have found a holy thing in a chest. It is a piece of a cross," the Hurriyet Daily News quoted her as saying.

Köroğlu, an art historian and archaeologist at Turkey's Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, said the team suspects that the chest served as a symbolic coffin for the relics of a holy person — and that the fragments within it were associated with Jesus' crucifixion.

outhouse · 08-01-2013, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

The journalist is more skeptical than the archaeologist:

Quote:

Turkish archaeologists say they have found a stone chest in a 1,350-year-old church that appears to contain a relic venerated as a piece of Jesus' cross.

There are many such relics, after all.

But the archaeologists appear to be off the deep end.

Quote:

“We have found a holy thing in a chest. It is a piece of a cross," the Hurriyet Daily News quoted her as saying.

Köroğlu, an art historian and archaeologist at Turkey's Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, said the team suspects that the chest served as a symbolic coffin for the relics of a holy person — and that the fragments within it were associated with Jesus' crucifixion.

Agreed

A old piece of wood does not indicate it was ever a cross.

James Brown · 08-01-2013, 01:27 PM

It's been said that in the Middle Ages there so many slivers of the cross of Christ being reverently displayed in churches throughout Europe that you could put them all together and reconstruct Noah's Ark.

bilby · 08-01-2013, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by James Brown

It's been said that in the Middle Ages there so many slivers of the cross of Christ being reverently displayed in churches throughout Europe that you could put them all together and reconstruct Noah's Ark.

And enough bones to make a couple of dozen John the Baptists too.

Tubby Lardmore · 08-01-2013, 03:40 PM

Can tourists still purchase a piece of the true cross in Vatican City?

mountainman · 08-01-2013, 11:38 PM

Hi Philosopher Jay,

When you decide to release this discovery to the world perhaps you may require an Australian agent. One of my qualifications in this matter is very close geographical proximity to the Valhalla Horse Riding stud, who have been looking after the earthly needs of the Viking Gods horses while the gods travel the heavens.

Best wishes.

εὐδαιμονία | eudaimonia

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Originally Posted by PhilosopherJay

I woke up this morning to read about this amazing discovery, "A piece of Jesus' cross? Relics unearthed in Turkey"

I too have made an equally significant discovery which I will shortly reveal to the world. I have discovered a piece of wood from the hammer of Thor when he descended from Asgard and became Dr. Blake.

Warmly,

Jay Raskin

Bronzeage · 08-02-2013, 07:02 AM

During the Crusades, there was a thriving business in Holy Relics.

Enough pieces of the true cross were sold to Europeans to have crucified a hundred Christs.

Jaybees · 08-02-2013, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Bronzeage

During the Crusades, there was a thriving business in Holy Relics.

Enough pieces of the true cross were sold to Europeans to have crucified a hundred Christs.

Aren't portions of Jesus' foreskin still in some of the relic collections in Europe? Feathers from the Holy Ghost? Drops of milk from Mary's breast?

Tenorikuma · 08-02-2013, 08:42 AM

I believe there are 17 or 18 holy prepuces.

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