Who, again, thought of cloning from the Shroud of Turin?
From Barstool Entertainment we see how strange it can get:
“Punk Rock Jesus”. hmmm… sounds interesting there are many connotations. Story could go either way. Could be a story of redemption, and absolution or it could be my worst fears. It turned out to be the latter after I read the interview inside.
Now DC has every write to publish this. They are doing so under their Vertigo imprint, since it is more “edgy”. And being a free speech absolutist of sorts, offensive speech is covered, and should be covered. But they also should be willing to suffer the backlash. Sadly the backlash hurts small business owners in the form of the local comic shop.
So who is DC? They are one of the largest and most successful comic book publishers. They are owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment. Their stable of super hero characters includes Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow and Green Lantern. Now there is this:
The story basis is they clone Jesus from the Shroud of Turin, he becomes the most popular star ever, but his show becomes corrupt, he becomes disillusioned, quits, years later he is the atheist leader of a punk rock band. Not too offensive. Been done before in many ways. The writer of the comic in the interview points out Christian violence in the form of Catholic/Protestant fighting in Ireland, and says that he understands there will be some controversy. Unfortunately the brave soul that he is probably would not be willing to . . . [you get the idea] But it is OK to offend Christians.
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Is the Shroud real? Probably.
The Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus. The carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless. Even the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial. Christopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. So do many other scientists and archeologists. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests. Chemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth. It was probably a mixture of older threads and newer threads woven into the cloth as part of a medieval repair. Recent robust statistical studies add weight to this theory. Philip Ball, the former physical science editor for Nature when the carbon dating results were published, recently wrote: “It’s fair to say that, despite the seemingly definitive tests in 1988, the status of the Shroud of Turin is murkier than ever.” If we wish to be scientific we must admit we do not know how old the cloth is. But if the newer thread is about half of what was tested – and some evidence suggests that – it is possible that the cloth is from the time of Christ.
No one has a good idea how front and back images of a crucified man came to be on the cloth. Yes, it is possible to create images that look similar. But no one has created images that match the chemistry, peculiar superficiality and profoundly mysterious three-dimensional information content of the images on the Shroud. Again, this is all published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
We simply do not have enough reliable information to arrive at a scientifically rigorous conclusion. Years ago, as a skeptic of the Shroud, I came to realize that while I might believe it was a fake, I could not know so from the facts. Now, as someone who believes it is the real burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth, I similarly realize that a leap of faith over unanswered questions is essential.
My name is Dan Porter. Please email me at DanielRobertPorter@gmail.com
Radical Muslims would know how to do deal with it. Ask Salmon Rushdie! Christians are too soft a target.
Christians aren’t people anyway, seems to be their message. Yet Jesus said it best. If they persecuted and hated me, they will persecute and hate you. Considering the message Jesus brought, I would have to disagree with daveb, respectively. I believe the willingness to suffer insults for the kingdom of God actually shows our greatest strength. To forgive is divine and Jesus has given us that power.