Pliny's Tangent Du Jour: Where Nonsense Comes Alive...

3.03.2011

Tonight at 10 pm on the History Channel, experts from the Templeton Foundation discuss the secrets of the Shroud of Springfield.

pboyfloyd said...: Stuff like this, Shroud of Turin and the saint's blood which liquifies once a year, it seems to me at least buries the philosophical Catholic theories, proofs, and other 'bath-water babies' they wish to 'save'.

Seems to me that all the Thomist word-game proofs are just massacred by these same guys having to defend seriously ridiculous 'signs' like this.

I suppose if you're willing to believe that Jesus had to come back to life physically to prove that there is spiritual life and that the Shroud of Turn is a 'sign' from God, you might as well go the whole hog and be searching your toast for something resembling a hippie's face(Jesus) or a woman's face(Mary).; 6.3.11
Pliny-the-in-Between said...: What makes me crazier is that this stuff gets on the History Channel.; 6.3.11
mac said...: Tactfully absent is the cloth where the genitals should be... this is an omission of Homeric proportions.; 7.3.11
Pliny-the-in-Between said...: Mac, I'm not sure Homer's, manhood could ever be considered as having reached epic proportions...; 7.3.11
Pliny-the-in-Between said...: Plus, I'm sure someone resected that section during the middle ages - about the same time as they were painting cloths on the figures in the Sistine Chapel.; 7.3.11