Reciprocating Bill
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| Quote (sparc @ Feb. 11 2011,22:29) | | [Sayeth Batshit]: The Shroud of Turin clearly points out a fact that sets Christianity completely apart from all other religions of the world. The fact is that, as I’ve heard said by many preachers before, you can go to the graves of all the other founders of all the other major religions of the world and find the remains of a body, yet, as the Shroud of Turin stubbornly testifies despite many attempts to refute the Shroud’s authenticity, if you go to the tomb of Jesus you will not find the remains of a body because Jesus has risen from the dead. |
Batshit attempts to link to a Wikipedia article concerning the burial places of the founders of all the world's religions. In the article we find:
"Bodhidharma (early 6th cent. CE) is generally regarded as the founder of Zen Buddhism...Soon after his death, someone supposedly witnessed Bodhidharma walking back towards India barefoot and with a single shoe in hand. His grave was later exhumed, and according to legend, the only thing found in it was the shoe he left behind. Because of uncertainty about the precise physical location as well as ambiguity about what might be left of Bodhidharma at his burial site, no burial site has been venerated in the Zen tradition."
"Hinduism is a religion of approximately one billion adherents representing the third largest religion of the world, yet it has no single 'founder'."
"Taoism was founded by Laozi, the author of the Tao Te Ching...He is believed to have lived out the rest of his days in communion with Nature, and some Taoist traditions hold that he achieved immortality. Whether he underwent death or not is not made clear by all parts of the tradition, and if he did, it was in some remote area, far from civilization at that time."
"Zoroastrianism was founded by Zoroaster. There is no consensus as to where Zoroaster lived, much less where he died or what became of his remains. Most believe that he died in Balkh while he was praying. When he died, his entire body became a flame, as fire in Zoroastrianism is very important." The article on Zoroastrianism itself notes that it was "formerly among the world's largest religions."
"The exact location of the grave of Moses is unknown..."
"Many other religions like the old Celtic religion, Shinto in Japan, the Bon religion in Tibet, and indigenous religions of Africa, Australia, and the Americas — have traditions that extend back before the recorded history of those places. It is unclear whether any of these had founders; more likely, they were modified by several and evolved over the course of millennia."
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