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Originally Posted by radditsu
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Holy shit, did G13 post something about the Shroud of Turin? Bwahaha. BTW, the dates arent the only thing that point to a fake.
-Draping the cloth under and over the body is a practice from the Middle Ages.
- No record of this particular shroud can be found before it showed up in Lirey, France, around 1350
-Two succeeding bishops from the area pronounced the shroud a fake when it was first discovered, the second purportedly producing the artist who created it.
-"No examples of complex herringbone weave are known from the time of Jesus when, in any case, burial cloths tended to be of plain weave. In addition, Jewish burial practice utilized — and the Gospel of John specifically describes for Jesus — multiple burial wrappings wrapped tightly around the body with a separate cloth over the face" -
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
- "none of the gospels make any mention of any miraculous burial cloth after Jesus's resurrection. Curious that the most holy relic in all of Christendom doesn't even get so much as a word in its holy texts, isn't it?" -
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
- There are also claims of "bloodstains" on the cloth, but Hebrew law dictated cleansing of the corpse before wrapping and bodies don't bleed after death. Chemist Walter McCrone identified the substance as a "combination of red ochre and vermilion tempera paint." -
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
- "Dr M. M. Baden, a pathologist, pointed out the blood trickles from the scalp are evidence of forgery, on the ground that blood from a scalp wound does not flow in rivulets but mats the hair." -
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin
- "Also of note is the lack of wrap-around distortion. For a shroud that was supposedly wrapped around the body of Christ, the lack of wrap-around distortion across the torso, thighs and legs is striking." -
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin