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Yes... I know what you're thinking, because I'm thinking it too. However it was claimed that it was 13 foreskins in a play I saw the other day. I think. Please don't question me on accuracy yet, I'm researching this bizzare claim.

According to the Bible, Jesus was circumcised, in keeping with Jewish law (“On the eighth day, when it was time to circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before he had been conceived.” – Luke 2:21).

The specter of a Jesus foreskin was too much for the Christians to resist: the monks of Charroux were the first to claim to have it, and who, as a proof of its genuineness, declared that it yielded drops of blood. [Calvin's Tracts, Vol. 1, pp. 296-304].

Actually, Jesus must have had a couple of penises, for his foreskin has been claimed by several churches, who coyly call it the "holy prepuce", including a church at Coulombs, France, the Church of St. John in Rome, and the Church of Puy in Velay! [John P. Wilder: The Other Side of Rome, Grand Rapids, 1959, p. 54].

Source (http://www.stormfront.org/archive/t-160961Bone_Boxes,_Flying_Houses,_Holy_Foreskins_%E2%80%93_Hopeless_Relics.html)
And if that's not enough for you - The Roman Catholic Church believes that the house in which Mary allegedly lived at Nazareth is now in the town of Loreto, Italy - having been transported there by angels.

By the way, the part of the play that mentioned the many foreskins of Jesus was a scene in which a tutor is telling students the type of things they ought to put in their Oxford entry exams, if they want to get in to read History.

As I've said before.......I learn something new here everyday. *shakes head*

As I've said before.......I learn something new here everyday. *shakes head*
No kidding ... oh well I love learning

Learning is FUNdamental! (some old commercial used to say that)

Its funny- I think we have 2 threads about Bible Biology. Mary's hymen and Jesus's foreskin. I hope we dont get struck down while discussing this.

There's probably enough "Pieces of the True Cross" to build a cabin, too.

Learning is FUNdamental! (some old commercial used to say that)

Its funny- I think we have 2 threads about Bible Biology. Mary's hymen and Jesus's foreskin. I hope we dont get struck down while discussing this.
well gravy already told me I am going to burn for the sheep as a sourogate mother comment :D

And would have to be a hell of a big lightning bolt ... I am in the basement of the building

Most of those are probably fake claims, let alone one being real.
In the middles ages, claiming relics to attract pilgrims is the same as the way tourism works today.

There's probably enough "Pieces of the True Cross" to build a cabin, too.
Aye, the Catholic Church admits that and the 'Catholic Encyclopedia' can explain why with indisputable fact.

The True Cross – Enough Pieces For A “Ship Load’

Take the “true cross” as a good example. This cross, the one on which Jesus was supposed to have been crucified, has been an object of fixation for Christians for centuries, and there are actually so many “pieces of the true cross” scattered throughout churches in Europe that the Protestant Reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) wrote that if all pieces were gathered together, they would form a good ‘ship-load.’

Christian Explanation: The Cross ‘Never Grows Smaller in Size’ !

Amazingly enough, the Catholic Encyclopedia actually concedes that there are enough pieces of wood from the cross to than would be expectd, but explains the great multiplying pieces of the cross by quoting St. Paulinus who spoke of "the reintegration of the Cross", - that it "never grew smaller in size, no matter how many pieces were detached from it"! [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 524] (online version: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04517a.htm )
Please don't get me wrong. I'm no Christian. I just find all of this rather amusing.

well gravy already told me I am going to burn for the sheep as a sourogate mother comment :D
And would have to be a hell of a big lightning bolt ... I am in the basement of the building
HA! But thats bound to be on an episode of Sally Jesse before too long...some nutso claiming..."I delivered Christ from a cow!"



he could always gobble you up by opening up the earth and swallowing you. :eek:

nah- he's got bigger fish to fry.

he could always gobble you up by opening up the earth and swallowing you. :eek:

nah- he's got bigger fish to fry.
Mmmmm frying fish!

Damn it now you got me hungry (well maybe I should not say damn it lol)

Learning is FUNdamental! (some old commercial used to say that)

Its funny- I think we have 2 threads about Bible Biology. Mary's hymen and Jesus's foreskin. I hope we dont get struck down while discussing this.
I guess there's nothing else for it but to start up a third discussing Joseph's prostate. ;)

There's probably enough "Pieces of the True Cross" to build a cabin, too.
And bones from Jesus fingers, sold in boxes of 10.

I guess there's nothing else for it but to start up a third discussing Joseph's prostate. ;)
sure ... I am betting he and mary tried that "male g-spot" thing more then once

lol @ hamster....

sure ... I am betting he and mary tried that "male g-spot" thing more then once

Holy moly! :eek:

Holy moly! :eek:

Boy, did you look shocked.

Good job nobody mentioned the fact that they got to a new town, and rented a room with an en-suite donkey...

Bad Grave... I turn you into a frog.... a frog... drat.

Mmmmm frying fish!

Damn it now you got me hungry (well maybe I should not say damn it lol)

Yeah - I'll take some of that, too...

Curse YOU NationStates... for making me stay up all night!!!

Boy, did you look shocked.

Good job nobody mentioned the fact that they got to a new town, and rented a room with an en-suite donkey...

Bad Grave... I turn you into a frog.... a frog... drat.
Wow mary was kinky! donkey no less ... (Well technicaly was it an ASS or a donkey? there is a difference ... If I remember right ASS = mule and donkey is a donkey but I could have that backward)

Holy moly! :eek:
Lol that guy STILL reminds me of a smurf giving head (and I know I know dont bother asking how I know ...)

If you turn into a frog, then UT or myself will have to kiss you to bring you back to your Grave and Idle self ;)

If you turn into a frog, then UT or myself will have to kiss you to bring you back to your Grave and Idle self ;)
Ohhhh I wouldent mind fluffling him a bit!

If you turn into a frog, then UT or myself will have to kiss you to bring you back to your Grave and Idle self ;)

Really?... I AM working on it.... a frog, I tell you.... a FROG....

(Come on, there's a lot riding on this)

:)

Wow mary was kinky! donkey no less ... (Well technicaly was it an ASS or a donkey? there is a difference ... If I remember right ASS = mule and donkey is a donkey but I could have that backward)

To be honest... I'm not sure a donkey or ass is ever actually mentioned... I think it is one of those little things that gets 'added to the story'.

But, he was born in a manger... in a town busy with the census taking, which means the manger was PROBABLY actually for camels... which doesn't necessarily make this any better... :(

To be honest... I'm not sure a donkey or ass is ever actually mentioned... I think it is one of those little things that gets 'added to the story'.

But, he was born in a manger... in a town busy with the census taking, which means the manger was PROBABLY actually for camels... which doesn't necessarily make this any better... :(
I hear cammels like to hump ....

Uh

Oh Wait HAVE a hump!

I hear cammels like to hump ....

Uh

Oh Wait HAVE a hump!

BAD man!

I'll have to turn YOU into a frog, this keeps up... :)

I hear cammels like to hump ....

Uh

Oh Wait HAVE a hump!

And I though Grave and I were the cheesiest ;) ....you get the cheddar award today UT :fluffle:

I'd think that that's a relic no one really needs...

*reads 1st post*
*starts snickering uncontrollably*

And I though Grave and I were the cheesiest ;) ....you get the cheddar award today UT :fluffle:
oh and what can I buy with a cheddar award?

oh and what can I buy with a cheddar award?
Melt it over some bread and you have grilled cheese

Melt it over some bread and you have grilled cheese
precisely

Okie .... if you have a foreskin laying about the house and it's 2000 years old, that's not pious ... it's just nasty ... I don't care who's foreskin it was. That's like saving a hershey stained pair of boxers cuz they were worn by Elvis.

WWJD? He'd tell you to throw the damn thing away and call you a sick fucker.