A propos the latest claim that the Shroud of Turin may (or must) be authentic. The mysterious face on the Shroud looks too "familiar" or "classical" to be the actual face of a historical person known as Jesus. And indeed, according to the YouTube video above (which is based on scholarly research), Jesus wasn´t originally portrayed with long hair and a beard. That came later (it´s actually a "pagan" thing), so what are the chances that an apocalyptic Jewish preacher looked like a Stoic philosopher or Roman god? Bracing myself for another round of unproductive polemix...
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