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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Shroud exposed at early date (Tim O'Neill)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.174308.28098@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:43:08 GMT
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- In article <cass8806.221@elan.glassboro.edu> cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY) writes:
- }In article <59620@mimsy.umd.edu> biow@cs.umd.edu (chris biow) writes:
- }
- }>I remember listening to a ... member of one of the investigatory
- }>commisions on the Shroud ... It was his opinion that the shroud had to
- }>have been made with an actual crucified body
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- }[stuff deleted from above]
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- }>If he and the dating are right, it was produced by one very
- }>scholarly, very sadistic person in the 14th century, and should be
- }>an object of horror, not veneration.
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- }
- }i recall hearing in my medieval history class that there was a middle ages
- }painter or sculptor, who recieved permission from the pope to crucify, or
- }have crucified, several prisioners so that he could observe how the body
- }changed during the various stages of death ... for the purpose of course of
- }being better able to paint jesus' own crucifixion....
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- And I recall somewhere and somewhen hearing about the Easter Bunny. So?
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