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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on November 25, 2006, 04:20:57 AM

Title: the International Crusade for Holy Relics
Post by: Plane on November 25, 2006, 04:20:57 AM

Last month, Serafin's group, the International Crusade for Holy Relics, opened a new front that's truly worthy of a David and Goliath metaphor: a call to boycott eBay.

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/crusader-takes-on-ebay-over-sales-of/20061123142709990001

Title: Re: the International Crusade for Holy Relics
Post by: Xavier_Onassis on November 26, 2006, 12:12:11 AM

I pretty sure there is no way I am going to boycott e-bay over this. But I am not planning to buy any body parts or reliquaries, holy or otherwise, either.

Somehow, I doubt that a bone or dried part of a saint would be miraculous, anyway. Most likely it would be either an animal part or the part of someone why wasn't a saint.

There have been hundreds of thousands of Egyptian mummies dug up over the years, complete with bones. How could you tell the difference between a bone from one of these are St. Augustine? I suggest that without some saintly DNA this would be impossible.


E-Bay is obviously not at fault, since there was a statement that no body parts were included, and no evidence that they were.

These things have been bartered between varoius churches for centuries, by the way.