Atheists & Agnostics
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No, I didn't forget an l. I just started reading a story that involves a church in Scotland that has a piece of the Cross.
Of all the idiotic ideas people have come up with throughout history, this is the champ. I could sooner believe in unicorns than this nonsense.
Here's an excerpt from Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad
From the cistern we descended twelve steps into a large roughly-shaped grotto, carved wholly out of the living rock. Helena blasted it out when she was searching for the true Cross. She had a laborious piece of work, here, but it was richly rewarded. Out of this place she got the crown of thorns, the nails of the cross, the true Cross itself, and the cross of the penitent thief. When she thought she had found everything and was about to stop, she was told in a dream to continue a day longer. It was very fortunate. She did so, and found the cross of the other thief.
Iggo
(48,464 posts)Warpy
(113,131 posts)which is why his brief correspondence with my grandfather likely went sour. Considering the Europeans got everything wrong, especially about the shape of the cross (it would have been an "x," not a "t" and used rope, not nails), Helena wouldn't have known it from any other scrap lumber even with a note on it, since she didn't read Aramaic.
Yet people still lap this shit up. I can't figure it out. I guess flying without a net isn't for everybody.
progressoid
(50,784 posts)I don't think I've heard of this story.
Do tell.
Warpy
(113,131 posts)We think he must've destroyed the letters because we couldn't find them after he died.
progressoid
(50,784 posts)My brother was a big fan of Twain. He read just about everything he could get his hands on. If he were alive today, I'm sure he would be pouring over all 2300 pages of Twain's autobiography.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)We could build an Ark from all the wood and nails of the true cross.
Freelancer
(2,107 posts)Since it's all about belief, what does it matter if it's truly a Golgothan nail or splinter?
NeoGreen
(4,033 posts)New(er) and Improved!
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)fewer Muslims.....
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)about 10 minutes from my work: