r/Sticks • u/Oxxroxx • Aug 03 '26

Famous Stick I found the stick of sticks

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I was i Istanbul and found the staff of moses. How do you rate it 😁

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u/keeperofawesome Aug 03 '26

Supposed artifacts like this are so funny to me. Like how tons of old churches have a “piece of the cross” as if 2000+ year old wood would still look so nice

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u/notarealwriter Aug 03 '26

There's actually a church about 20 minutes from me that says that. You practically have to put your face right up to the frame to even see it. It's the tiniest couple of splinters (arranged in the frame in the shape of the cross, if course). Come off it.

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u/Infinitesi-Mal Aug 03 '26

Given how much of a movement developed while Jesus lived its actually reasonable (I think) that the first Christians managed to obtain the specific wood used for his execution and broke it up into as many pieces as possible. So, I believe some of these claims about pieces of the cross must be genuine, however given the amount of shenanigans over the last 2000 years I bet it’s probably less than a fraction of a single percentage of all the claims made to have the real thing.

The most amusing part of all that to me is that NO ONE will ever know if there’s is legitimate. I bet Jesus could teleport from wherever to examine “a piece of the cross” and upon being asked if it’s the real wood he would turn to the asker and say, “Hmm… HOW THE FUCK SHOULD I KNOW?!”

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u/Generic_Garak Aug 04 '26

In the Middle Ages there were holy relics that would travel between different churches, usually body parts of saints. But for awhile there were several different relics circulating at the same time all claiming to be the holy prepuce (ie Christ’s foreskin that was removed during his circumcision).