PeaceNikki created a digital image of what Jesus looked like as a child.

[PeaceNikki]

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In case you haven't seen it, the Italian police did this and the Pope is totes excited: http://abcnews.go.com/International/police-create-image-jesus-child-shroud-turin-computer/story?id=30823820

Without forget ado, here's my rendering of our Lord and Savoir Jeebus:
































Wow, right???

[NeoGreen]

1. I think they forgot...

...the blue eyes...


Just sayin'

[onager]

2. HAHAHA! Saw that on the news last night.

The news story mentioned specifically that Boy Jesus was a blond, blue-eyed child.

So maybe there is something to that ancient gossip about Mary and a Roman soldier...

And all this, from that absolutely gen-u-wine, unimpeachable historical source...the Shroud of Turin.

Suggestion for their next historical project: I've read that, at one point in the Middle Ages, no less than 42 churches claimed to own the foreskin of Jesus.

Researchers, go and find the real one.

[PeaceNikki]

3. Ewww. Christians probably ate it cuz they think Jesus is so tasty.

[Lordquinton]

21. Sounds like a reality TV show.

5 teams, 1 real foreskin, 30 days across Europe.

[kdmorris]

4. It's incredible to me that they keep fighting

to not accept the results of the dating done in 1988. The blonde/blue eyed thing really makes me laugh.

The Shroud of Turin was proved to be a fake using radiocarbon dating... which the Vatican then contested in so many different ways.

In 1988, scientists at three separate laboratories dated samples from the Shroud to a range of AD1260–1390, which coincides with the first appearance of the shroud in France in the 1350s.

From the wiki page.

[PeaceNikki]

5. Have faith, kd!!!

[kdmorris]

12. What was I thinking?

Of course, of course... you are right to point out that I'm lacking in faith... I shall go self-flagellate now to bolster my failing faith.

(that's what we are supposed to do right?)

[onager]

7. Experiment in Sophisticated Theology

The Shroud of Turin is a Real Fake. Not a Fake Fake.

[kdmorris]

13. Of course, of course! n/t

[trotsky]

14. Well, there are devout believers right here on DU who believe it's real.

Because they NEED to believe, you see. Guess their faith is just fragile.

[kdmorris]

15. That's pretty sad

My father is religious, but he's also smart. He doesn't believe that the Shroud of Turin is real and still manages to believe in god. He just doesn't need to believe that an object is somehow proof of his faith. It's possible that this is because he's Baptist, though... Martin Luther changed a lot in the break away from the Catholic church... including belief in "relics".

If you can't be religious without having to have physical proof (as in relics), then are you really "faithful"?

[AlbertCat]

19. If you can't be religious without having to have physical proof (as in relics), then are you really

It's best just to drop the whole ancient superstition thing altogether.


Re-channel all the mountains of energy it takes to keep such ancient guesses viable into something like...oh ..art, music or...I know Science!

[Iggo]

6. Hey!

Howcome all I see is a naked emperor?

[PeaceNikki]

8. Perhaps you're not getting enough Holy Spirit in your diet?

[Iggo]

11. Oh, I'm definitely not getting enough of that good shit.

[mr blur]

9. There's a Shroud of Turin PROJECT? With a PRESIDENT?!

What ridiculous bullshit.

Can I be President of the Xenu, the Dictator of the Galactic Confederacy Project?

What's the salary? What are the hours?

I know what he looks like, there's a BBC picture!:



(He could have blue eyes. How much is it worth?)

[PeaceNikki]

10. I know. The money on that project is far better spent there than on the stupid poors and dumb sick

[edhopper]

16. I don't see any image

it's like he doesn't exist at all or something?

[PeaceNikki]

17. Use the force, Luke!

[edhopper]

18. alright,

I'll give it a try.

[AlbertCat]

20. Use the force, Luke!

I tried that and my computer just sank into the swamp.


Besides, I know Yodda hates me and has been eating my stuff out of the break room fridge!