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christians, isn't it more offensive to believe that jesus didn't get laid than if you face that he had....
relations with mary magdaline?
seriously, 30 year old virgins are the subject of ridicule and ostricised- and for good reason.
isn't it better to believe that your religious icon was at least getting some in a committed relationship than that he was a 30+ year old virgin?
Hebrews 4:15
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
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Walking down the 300 stairs, until the darkness of the earth's core, and then you reach the Wieliczka Salt Mine's "door." Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland ancient underground spectacle, but also the creation of mankind from the middle Ages an underground civilization. Since the accidental discovery in 1044 AD, starting with salt, there began a prolonged extraction, has not yet fully stopped.
Wieliczka "door" in the ground 100 meters deep, this is the first layer of salt, but said to be a total of nine-story, maximum depth of 327 meters, and its maze of tunnel length of nearly 600 years, long and winding rich like a city, in which spectacular underground churches, in particular, amazing.
White cauliflower-like crystal, transparent and black rock, green underground lakes, even with the dome of the building blocks, or iron tools occurred in a variety of bizarre variants, they are the most vivid form of salt. Of the parcels in the underground world of salt to walk before they suddenly realize that the original form of salt, and its physical sense, for those of us self-righteous tourists mediocre knowledge structure, made the most serious challenges, and even we cannot understand why salt looks like cauliflower so beautiful.
In ancient society, salt of course, is the country's "greatest asset." Accompanied by a friend of Poland, Mr. Darius said that before the widespread availability of mechanical cooling method for six centuries, thanks to the salt trade, term next term of Polish monarchs keep their wealth, prestige, and cultural achievements into Europe the forefront.
Mildly tortuous basement also displayed a few small salt mine museum, which had medieval scenes when the miners work and the then religious figures carved sporadic salt, while this layer also the rehabilitation of the medieval salt mining face, full of the wisdom of human and animal power plant, using two-way nature of pulley principle, both will be hanging up the salt mine, but also the building blocks of the above hung from the mines.
From the basement underground two-story or three, you can see more range from the size of the underground church, the use of salt, rock carvings, like the Virgin Mary or Jesus carrying the cross, as an embodiment of the sanctity of white crystals, manners sacred and solemn. In-depth 100 meters or more deep underground, it can be said that belief in the great wonders of humanity, but also the great architectural wonders.
Mr. Darius explained that the mining of salt miners in the Middle Ages had a high social status, but the exploitation of underground salt mine the cost is staggering. 16 to 17 century, the Wieliczka Salt Mine on average each year 10% of the miners died in landslides and gas explosions, so they have to go to find "God" blessing.
This well-known underground church ceiling with exquisite chandeliers, these chandeliers are also made with salt crystals, such as jewel-like crystal clear; similarly, the floor of the church is also a transparent salt rock carved with the pattern of squares is. There are a lot of the church altar and the icons, and they are all made of salt carving, including a Virgin Mary as the height of more than six feet, in the light under the holy and dignified. The carved reliefs on the wall, most of the content of the Bible stories, including an order to achieve - Vinci's famous painting "The Last Supper", Jesus and 12 disciples of the classic image of the language of the world where salt is incomparably exquisite.
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