New dating methods result in a 2000 year old date for the Shroud of Turin

Reblogged from Theo-sophical Ruminations:

The Shroud of Turin – the purported burial cloth of Jesus which contains the faint image of a crucified man – was the subject of intense scientific examination in the mid 1980s.  Based on a carbon-14 dating of the fibers, scientists dated the shroud to A.D. 1260-1390.  For most, this was all the proof they needed to conclude that the shroud was a medieval forgery.

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The Shroud has been a point of personal interest to me, as a piece of history, art, and religion. New tests have come to some interesting conclusions... FYI Joshua / NAA

Will the grave of the human race be dug by apathy and silence?

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VIDEO: Was Jesus an Advocate of Blind Faith?

The Crusty Cork In the Ear of Christianity’s Critics

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Dedicated to all those “open-minded” people who are content with their mistaken understanding of the central message of the New Testament — Jesus. The crusty cork has long been embedded. Sufferers do not open themselves up to allow in any bit of fresh air (the results of nearly 2,000 years of intense scholarship). Instead, they remain content, maintaining that erroneous information, like fine wine, only improves with age. Consequently, their heads are filled with mere rotten liquid.

There is no grand new objection, no great new revelation that can defeat the ever-increasing, ever-clearing picture of who Jesus was and is — the Son of God and the Savior of the entire world.

An Alternative Explanation for the UFO Phenomenon

There’s an increasing level of buzz about some sort of “grand disclosure” coming to the world in the near future, a day of disclosure whose nearness depends on who you’re asking. Simply put it involves governments acknowledging the existence of aliens and UFOs and giving “evidence” of them. Even Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell speaks boldly and confidently about the existence of aliens in public! And many other people that believe in aliens think that the UFO phenomenon throughout the past 100 years is the result of aliens slowly making themselves known in order to prepare humanity for that day.

They fail to convince many of us.

However, why not entertain alternative theories? What if Earth, being near the center of the galaxy (as more and more scientific evidence points), is the final, ultimate destination of alien tourists?

One thing is sure, the reports involving alien interactions are almost universally negative, pardon the pun. The probes, the implants, the abductions, the abortions — these things seem to indicate that if aliens are real, they intend to hurt people, not help them, which may reveal to us their true identity. How appropriate then that alien should begin with “a lie”…

By the way, if you are ever abducted, call out to Jesus. Researchers have found it ends any abduction… immediately.

Time for a New Hobby

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End of the world date setting has been a hobby of some for some time. These misguided, ill-intended people (including some ignorant Christians) spend so much time focused on the end of the world that they forget to participate in it. In turn, they turn calloused and apathetic, giving their entire attention over to date phantoms, ignoring the real world and real problems that we face in it.

To them I say: Don’t hide behind another date and use it as an excuse to do nothing in the real world. The world needs your selfless participation, not your selfish withdrawal from it.

Besides, I don’t buy that the world will ever “end”. I’m firmly convinced by the words of Jesus that it will be changed, first for the worst and then for good for good. Furthermore, He said that the Master will be pleased to find his servant busy when he returns, not hiding in an underground lair, cheering for an apocalypse.

Pleasant Present from a Pro-Abortion Proponent

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It’s difficult to read the text at this low resolution, I know. But the proponent’s diatribe ends with the following sentence: “I wish you had been aborted.”

Short-lived Materialist Motivational Poster

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Qwerky Quotes for the Inquisitive: Militant Atheist

Ultimately, everything adds up to zero. Don’t you know that?”

- self-proclaimed “Militant Atheist”, Apologia Church street interview excerpt at the Reason Rally

The Nihilist Equation

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NAA Cartoon #100!

For the 100th NAA cartoon, I wanted something shocking and explosive. Here it is!

A Word of Thanks

Thanks to the thousands of people who’ve come here over the past two years and especially to those who were gracious enough with their time to leave messages.

Joshua of NAA