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Originally Posted by wizhard
I disagree in part with what your saying here. *If* it can be proven that the mortal remains of JC are still with us then it throws into disaray one of the fundamental tenents of Christianity in that JC bodily ascended to heaven after his resurection. Secondly, ( and probably more importantly ), it would give us a starting point to begin a more thourough and scientific investigation of the real man behind the myth.
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personally, i doubt it would have ANY impact. Seventh Day Adventists gave up all their possessions believing the world would end in 1844. Mormons believe absolutely moronic things like the "fact" that native american indians are actually descendants from hebrews, in spite of the fact that its an impossibility. Jehovas Witnesses believe that dinasours never existed in spite of the obvious modern evidence to the contrary. Scientology, founding by a well known scam artist and convicted felon, teaches that an alien creature 75,000,000 years ago, brought billions of other alien creatures to die here on earth adn their souls are in our bodies causing any and all negative thoughts, feelings and emotions we have. Sun Myung Moon, convicted felon built a mulit billion dollar empire owning companies that were major defense contractors to major players in the global seafood industry by telling people he was the returning messiah until he died... at which point his son then of course, became the returning messiah. the list goes on. most religions are based on absolute absurdities that were easily disproven at one point or another. it never has any negative impact on their following or strength.