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| Another Bogus ‘I-recreated’ the Shroud Story |
| Once again someone has made the bogus claim that they have “recreated” the Shroud.
Once again, the media has given its typical one-sided account of the story. An account that screams in headlines that the Shroud has been proven to be, in their false belief, a “fake” or medieval in origin. Nothing could be further from the Truth. And when the claims of the one who says he has “recreated” the Shroud are examined from a scientific standpoint, the entire story falls apart. In discussing how he “recreated” the Shroud, the so-called “scientist” stated that he first aged the cloth by baking it in an oven and “then added bloodstains.” Not so fast, Sherlock. The real Shroud received the bloodstains on it first -- BEFORE the Image was created. Scientists, unlike this bogus Sherlock, who actually examined the Shroud and did physical tests on the cloth know this for a fact. [continue story below] |
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| The real Shroud [left] vs. this poor imitation. |
| Wherever there are bloodstains on the Shroud, there is NO Image, proving the bloodstains were on first and interfered with the Image-making process.
This makes perfect sense in the fact that Jesus’ real burial cloth would have first wrapped His dead bleeding Body on Friday with the Image then being created during the Resurrection at midnight on Sunday. Also important is that these bloodstains soak through the cloth, whereas the Image resides only on 1/500th of an inch of the Shroud’s fibers, equivalent to approximately the root of one’s hair. These fibers have not been “baked,” but have had all the water and oxygen removed from them in a process true science doesn’t understand nor can duplicate. In other words, this cannot be done by baking a cloth in an oven, but apparently the Sherlock professor in question, Luigi Garlaschelli, does not understand this or has not studied these irrefutable peer-reviewed facts gained through actual experiments with the Shroud. Therefore, in order to “recreate” the Shroud, a true replica would have to first have the bloodstains placed on the cloth ANATOMICALLY CORRECT, and then proceed to create the image around them by removing oxygen and water from the fibers. |
| An impossible feat for any human.
In addition, one could not use just any blood. A significant portion of the bloodstains would have to be post-mortem. Post-mortem as in the Blood and Water from the Body of a dead Victim as is obviously found in the Heart wound area on the Shroud. This is just one major setback for the current claim that the Shroud has been proven to be “made by human hands.” Indeed, we noted with interest that, once again, in the Great Spiritual Battle that surrounds us all everyday, it just wasn’t any day that professor Sherlock announced his false claim to the world: it just happened to be October 5, the Feast of the Secretary of Divine Mercy, St. Faustina. The very one who wrote of the Blood and Water gushing forth as a Fountain of Mercy for us. The very one who saw the Image of Christ opening His Heart to wounded mankind. The very one who wrote of Jesus’ return (see the Prophet for Our Times below). For us it is never an accident when the evil one continues to distract the world through one of his kingdoms -- this one involving the extremely powerful media -- to keep people from knowing the Truth. To set a snare that they might believe that Christ is not King, not God so that the disbeliever can fall back on the preposterous claim that this lie has been proven scientifically by debunking the one ultimate witness to the Resurrection: the Shroud of Turin. In this unbelieving, secularized and pleasure-focused world, it is not a hard trick for the devil to play on the distracted minds of those who do not worship Christ. But we will not let him get away with it. Let us see professor Sherlock not just bake his cloth at a low temperature in an oven, but let us see if his replica can survive a 960-centigrade fire or be rescued from a bomb-proof case as in the case of the real Shroud. We could go on with hundreds of other objections, or as Dr. Keith Propp stated on reviewing this latest so-called claim of recreating Jesus’ true burial cloth, that it fails to mimic the real Shroud because the current bogus product is “not consistent with what the actual Shroud shows us.” “It’s nowhere near as sophisticated as the Shroud,” Dr. Propp told reporters (you know, the ones who look to balance a story with expert input), because the bogus creation “misses out on the accuracy and subtleties that are in the actual image.” Yeah, “subtleties.” Little things, like pollen from plants that only grow in Israel that are missing on the bogus recreation but which have been found embedded in the fibers of the Shroud; or the inability to get an anatomically correct 3-dimensional image from the phony cloth, while the real Shroud easily produces such. And, just by looking at the darkened areas of the hands on the photos of the bogus recreation, one can see there is no X-ray information; whereas in the real Shroud, the metacarpal bones in the hands can be clearly distinguished in a negative Image of the cloth. Alas, there is a real reason behind so many making so many failed attempts to recreate the Shroud and “prove” it is a “fake,” or of medieval origin. It really is quite simple. Because if the Shroud is real, then surely Jesus is real and everything He said is True. And if that’s the case, then one must make a real assessment of one’s life to spiritually see which pathway one is on. A path skeptics and critics of the Shroud do not want to examine. For to examine one’s life in the Light of Jesus is to comprehend that we all need to make serious adjustments. One cannot, therefore, as the current so-called “scientist” who is making the current bogus claim does, espouse atheism as their belief system. For that belief will not, ultimately, hold up before the Throne of Judgment. In the final analysis, we must always remember that Jesus was controversial. In this Truth, the Shroud is only a reflection of His great Light. Thus, what else can we expect but that the Shroud will continue to generate controversy for it is another proof of the fact that it is the real thing. And as a parting shot to the shoddy “journalism” of the MSM which has run this phony claim up their flagpoles, their statements that the Church does not take a stand regarding the Shroud are bogus as well. They should do their research (if they do any at all) a lot more carefully. No less than 15 popes have endorsed the authenticity of the cloth; and the Shroud, as we love to point out, has been surrounded by Saints in its long history. Indeed, no less than a doctor of the Church, St. Francis de Sales, called the Shroud the “Standard of our Salvation!” As for the current pope, one asks? Well, it is Benedict XVI who has approved the unusual exhibition of the Shroud that is scheduled for April 10 (the Saturday before the Divine Mercy Feast) through May 23, 2010. Why? Because the Shroud, he believes, helps an individual to be “oriented towards a more attentive contemplation of the Passion of Christ.” And when one gazes upon the Shroud, Pope Benedict states, it provides “an appropriate moment to contemplate that mysterious Face, which silently speaks to the hearts of men, inviting them to recognize therein the Face of God!” That’s something professor Garlaschelli obviously is, at this point in his life, incapable of doing. “I am an atheist,” he declared. So he would rather spend his time debunking that which is real to ease his conscience and then make another false claim to a gullible reporter that he did not do this for money because “money has no odor.” Sorry, professor. Money does have an odor. And in this case, since you were paid by the so-called “Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics,” it stinks. |
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