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Amos likes to make her voice heard. In person she's a wisp--a mere 5 ft. 3 in. with pale strawberry hair--but she is given to big technicolor pronouncements, especially on the subject of Christianity: "At five I really believed Jesus and Mary [Magdalene] were in love, and there was this whole thing going on," and "When you really think about Christianity, it is a religion without a penis...
...from prophecies about Christ's Second Coming. By the reckoning of early Christian scholars, human history would end after 6,000 years, each thousand years corresponding to one day of creation. Some believed that there were 2,000 years between Adam and Abraham and 2,000 between Abraham and Jesus, and that after 2,000 more (constituting the Christian era) Jesus would return and reign in glory for 1,000 years--hence the millennium...
...Jesus appreciated the need of modern man for solid evidence of the Resurrection. The shroud is that evidence and a basis for our faith." BENJAMIN A. WIECH North Tonawanda...
...Jesus were as tall as the Shroud of Turin seems to indicate, about 6 ft., don't you think Matthew, Mark, Luke or John would have mentioned his majestic height--far above average for the time--as evidence of his divinity? The shroud belonged to somebody else or is a hoax, but just try to reason with believers. IRA LEVIN New York City...
...physical anthropologist working in Israel for the past 25 years, I have devoted much of my research to clearing ancient Jewish graves in Jerusalem. In this century alone, we have uncovered more than 1,000 ancient burial sites from the time of Jesus. As a result, there is a tremendous amount of information about these funerary practices. Jesus lived, died and was buried according to the Jewish practices of the time. The Shroud of Turin is in total nonconformity with all that is known about Jewish burial practices, making it a clear case of medieval forgery. It is simply...