Mug on a Mug: Arizona Artist Jephyr selling Shroud Of Turin Mugs
I don’t know about this. What is the “one of a kind design” here? Red coloring? I would need a morning cup of coffee before encountering this cup:
Jephyr Art [Jeff Curtin] has taken an amazing photograph of the original shroud and created a photo-enhanced, unique, one of a kind design.
Now you can own this conversation inducing, thought provoking creation on a mug from the Jephyr Art! Zazzle Store!
And it is only $15.95 ($12.95 each if you buy 100 or more).
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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
The word is “kitsch”! It will be purchased by the blind, the tasteless and the ignorant. I bet he doesn’t do one of Mahomet – he’d be in trouble!
Dave,
The artist has no imagination. How about a mug with a picture of the Shroud that turns into the “Real Face of Jesus” when you filled it with coffee and then as you drank it down, the face would revert to the Shroud. Now that would be kitsch. I’d love to send one to Richard Dawkins. (Along with a needle point or screen printed Shroud. Anyone tried that yet.)
(By the way, Mugs that change pictures or illustrations when filled with hot coffee are not miraculous, they are here now.)
That would be a cool effect. But wouldn’t it diminish the image and the man portrayed thereupon?
I’d rather say the word is “Krischt”!
If Christ is preached, I don’t care how…
I wonder from where the image was taken?