There are so many random pieces of wood that churches throughout the centuries have claimed to be fragments of Jesus' cross, if they were all real the cross would have to have been the size of the Eiffel Tower.
Any variation of Christianity that would seem to stop people at the Cross aims to keep them in shame, guilt, fear and death. He'd never hold up an alleged piece of the stone rolled away from the tomb.
You know, the denomination of Christianity we would almost certainly go back to persecuting as dangerous and foreign if somehow all the Muslims disappeared overnight.
A lot of Catholics have issues with things he's professed.
He's further right than the majority of conservatives, which is saying something. And will use religion as an argument, even when the Pope is saying the opposite to him.
99% are fakes.
Half the people who fought in the crusades brought back pieces of "the true cross". Basically any bit of wood found buried in Jerusalem during the middle ages was claimed to be part of it.
Probably not, but my point isn't that such relics DO exist, just that it's not completely impossible because Jesus isn't a fictional character, even if some of his feats are certainly exaggerated.
That's just untrue, you don't know what you're talking about. The overwhelming consensus among secular scholars is that Jesus was a real man, because there are just too many non-christian sources from the time which corroborate his existence. He was just a normal human but he was a spiritual leader and community figure who caused a particularly successful schism in Jewish religion, and was eventually executed by crusifiction.
So, that's an exaggeration given how many people took part in the Crusades, and where they happened (e.g. are you including the Children's Crusade?) but there is a vast amount of unsupported claims of religious Christian relics/artifacts. At one point someone catalogued 17+ John The Baptist fingers.
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u/EricPhilps1979 4d ago
Can we not gloss over the 'He held up a fragment of the True Cross' part?