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The famous John Calvin quote about relics comes from 1543, and many of the other quotes come from before 1000, while that catalogue is from the 1870. In betwee
by TheCoelacanth 4y ago
The famous John Calvin quote about relics comes from 1543, and many of the other quotes come from before 1000, while that catalogue is from the 1870.
In between comes the Protestant Reformation, more than a century of religious wars across all of Europe where one side in many cases actively sought to destroy relics and the gradual conversion to Islam of many densely populated Christian areas.
A catalogue from the 1870 is next to worthless for telling us how many relics existed in the early 1500s.
- Archelaos 4y agoBut everyone knows, that the number of relics increases over time. For each one lost, two new ones appear. So if we had 2% of the true cross in 1870, perhaps we had only 1% in 1543. Someone needs to update the catalogue. When we see how much we have today, we can estimate, when the cross crosses 100%. In the year 3451? (The Hobbes theory.)
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- Aeolun 4y ago> A catalogue from the 1870 is next to worthless for telling us how many relics existed in the early 1500s. I thought we were talking about how many are on display? What does the number of fragments that existed in the 1500s matter?
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoThe claim that you could build a house out of the fragments comes from the 1500s, so that's the number that matters if you're checking the veracity of that claim. There are far less now that Protestants spent a century destroying purported fragments.