Are Jesus & Mary buried in Pakistan & Kashmir?
March 13, 2002 8:36 AM   Subscribe

Are Jesus & Mary buried in Pakistan & Kashmir? Hmm. Suzanne Marie Olsson, a New York-based researcher, claims that the earthly remains of Jesus lie under a Muslim saint's tomb in Kashmir. She is using DNA testing on remains from the Pakistani town of Murree that she believes to be those of Mary. Olsson also believes Moses is buried in Bandipore in north Kashmir and Solomon at Takht-i-Suliaman in Srinagar. "You have more Christian holy sites than even Egypt or Israel," she said in an appeal for help from Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah. (Via alt.muslim)
posted by laz-e-boy (27 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Fitting name laz-e-boy! ;)
posted by anathema at 8:40 AM on March 13, 2002


Wow, the collective memory grows shorter and shorter.
posted by jkaczor at 8:40 AM on March 13, 2002


Has anyone heard about that researcher that claims Jesus and Mary are buried in Pakistan and Kashmir?
posted by rodii at 8:46 AM on March 13, 2002


No, no, no, that's the Jesus and Mary Chain.

"Please! Please dig us up! Hurry!" came the muffled Brit cries from under a large cairn, "We have a gig at Chili's tonight!"
posted by Skot at 8:47 AM on March 13, 2002


Mary's body went directly to heaven.
Jesus's body also disappeared and then he showed up with wounds and then he also went into heaven (ie. his body)
They can't be burried anywhere
posted by goneill at 8:50 AM on March 13, 2002


Has anyone heard about that researcher that claims Jesus and Mary are buried in Pakistan and Kashmir?

No rodii, I haven't heard a thing about it! Maybe someone should post it on Metafilter. I bet interesting conversation would ensue.
posted by dogmatic at 8:51 AM on March 13, 2002


Even when they analyze the DNA, how on earth are they going to prove anything with it? How do they know what Mary's DNA should be?
posted by aacheson at 8:51 AM on March 13, 2002


Mary's body went to heaven? really?
posted by tomplus2 at 8:56 AM on March 13, 2002


Mary's body went to heaven? really?

That's just an assumption. Hahahaha!
posted by rodii at 9:03 AM on March 13, 2002


ROTFL, rodii
posted by rushmc at 9:16 AM on March 13, 2002


?^^?
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posted by clavdivs at 9:17 AM on March 13, 2002


Mary's body went directly to heaven.
Jesus's body also disappeared and then he showed up with wounds and then he also went into heaven (ie. his body)


No they didn't.
posted by jpoulos at 9:22 AM on March 13, 2002


Yes they did.
posted by kfury at 9:30 AM on March 13, 2002


Truthfully this only overlaps 25% the previous thread. Though one must indeed wonder why all these people from Palestine trekked to the Hindu Kush to get buried, even if it is a nice vacation spot. Was it the ancient world's Ozarks?
posted by dhartung at 9:32 AM on March 13, 2002


Yes they did.

touche, mon ami. We just summarized life in six words!
posted by jpoulos at 9:53 AM on March 13, 2002


Dig him up! Dig up that corpse! If you really love Jesus Christ, you'll haul his bones out of the ground to prove my daughter wrong! Dig up his grave! Pull out his tongue!
The above original post on this topic was so shrieky and hysterical that I never bothered to read it. At least laz-e-boy began his post with a sentence telling us in clear, simple language what the heck he was getting at. I mean, the story's so weird it doesn't need embellishment.
posted by Faze at 10:07 AM on March 13, 2002


Olsson says she wants to unravel the truth about the shrines so that the scenic Himalayan region of Kashmir, ravaged by a decade-long Muslim insurgency that has claimed 35,000 lives, can become a pilgrimage centre for Christians and Muslims

Unfortunately if they do happen to find THE BODY OF JESUS, it will mean THE END OF CHRISTIANITY. Duh.
posted by drinkcoffee at 10:18 AM on March 13, 2002


drinkcoffee: you say that like it's a bad thing.
posted by signal at 11:44 AM on March 13, 2002


Every year I go the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final. My team won't be there this year, but I will still be there singing a song about Jesus wondering about south-western England with no shoes on. Bloody barmy I know, but that's me.
posted by vbfg at 12:18 PM on March 13, 2002


Unfortunately if they do happen to find THE BODY OF JESUS, it will mean THE END OF CHRISTIANITY. Duh.

Unless you're a Socinian.
posted by thomas j wise at 12:29 PM on March 13, 2002


The above original post on this topic was so shrieky and hysterical that I never bothered to read it.

If you had, rather than choosing to wallow in ignorance, you would have realised that it's nothing more than a quote from the Simpsons.

"Dig him up! Dig up that corpse! If you really love Jebediah Springfield, you'll haul his bones out of the ground to prove my daughter wrong! Dig up his grave! Pull out his tongue!" - Homer Simpson.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 2:12 PM on March 13, 2002


I have a feeling of deja vu
posted by semmi at 4:17 PM on March 13, 2002


Nah - deja vu had a menu tree down the left side.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 4:49 PM on March 13, 2002


Just go with it, obi. It's the new fashion: thanking the double poster for bringing something to one's attention and insulting the original one to boot. ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:32 PM on March 13, 2002


Double posters are victims. They deserve our compassion not our enmity.
posted by mikhail at 8:24 PM on March 13, 2002


if a body disappears and reappears thousands of miles away in the ground, it's a miracle. and should be celebrated. perhaps Kashmir is heaven. the cloth is nice anyway ;)
posted by wantwit at 8:39 PM on March 13, 2002


Who watches the Simpsons? Isn't that some kind of cartoon program?
posted by Faze at 7:12 AM on March 14, 2002


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