+Big Surprise, There+

Oh, the Irony... I love how when I'm writing about things that are a little controversial that my internet explorer always freezes up and I lose whatever it is I am writing about. It kind of makes a girl wonder. So, I'll try to rewrite exactly what I said, but my mind is a little fuzzy. I can never write the same exact thing twice. It's slightly problematic, I'm not going to lie. So, here goes;

I find it interesting how certain things always appear and reappear during certain time cycles. I'm not sure how these cycles happen to take place, but they do. They will go out of the public eye for quite a while and then reappear like a light in the stiffling darkness. I realize this is pretty obscure, but bear with me for a few moments.

Here's how this all started, I grabbed an issue of one of my favorite magazines at random and it just happened to be the issue about mystical relics. As if it wasn't random enough that I picked that one up out of the eleven or so issues I have, only to have it come up again a few days later. Anyway, of course along with the Holy Grail, Ark of the Covenant, and Spear of Destiny/Longinus, was the Shroud of Turin.

So, I was flipping through the channels trying to find something on tv that could keep my attention for more than about a second, which is continually difficult as I can't handle brainless chattering. So, I eventually land on the discovery channel on a documentary involving the Shroud of Turin, The DaVinci Shroud.

It was talking about whether or not the whole thing was a hoax. It was discussing whether or not it was all the work of DaVinci and how it was done. Supposedly the new theory is it was one of the first ever photographs. Using a design of davinci's, and soaking a cloth in silver nitrate (it's a light sensitive material) what was used in the first cameras, and then exposed to light which would make the cloth appear to have an image burned into it.

Surprisingly enough, the face of jesus on the shroud happens to match perfectly with the portrait da vinci did of himself as a young man. Also, it matched da vinci's sketch of the perfectly symetrical face ever, as does his self portrait match the Mona Lisa. Which is all fine and dandy, but most of it is still purely speculation. The one thing stopping the acceptance of the hoax or the denile is, of course, the catholic church. Way to go again, Catholic Church. You, for about the hundreth time, fail at life. You can't even let scientists test the shroud for remnants of silver nitrate. You let them carbon date the shroud, but not test it for silver nitrate?

The carbon date is 1260 to 1390 A.D. That's already a long time after Jesus!? How is that not threatening to the shroud's authenticity, but testing it will ruin everything?

What the hell do you care if the shroud is a hoax or not? It was in a French family for years, besides why would you continue to make your people kneel before a false relic? Oh wait, that's pretty much what you're great at. This is why organized religion fails, all you care about is keeping people in control and not about the truth.