OK, so let's say that someone finds an authentic Shroud of Turin, is a genius geneticist, and clones the blood on it
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Catholics believe she died a virgin because the mother of Christ had to be so pure she would never engage in sex
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Catholic tradition says Joseph was an old man when he married her and he married her as a favor to make sure she'd be taken care of
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Protestants, because they reject "Marianism" and the veneration of Mary, reject this doctrine
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So they generally believe "James the brother of Jesus" was literally his (half) brother and not a cousin
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But, given that we can find in any given town several dudes named Joshua with brothers named James, the finding of that tomb is... dubious?
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Oh the tomb was a fake, but the guy James the brother of Jesus is in the Bible, he wrote one of the books
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FWIW the reason the tomb was supposed to be a big deal is you wouldn't label the ossuary w the brother's name unless the brother was famous
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It said "Yakov son of Yusuf brother of Yeshua" which in that context makes it really clear who it's supposed to be
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But yeah there's a lot of Jameses, which is part of the problem here
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Catholics believe James the brother of Jesus is the same guy as one of the 12 Apostles, James the son of Alpheus
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Because they believe "brother" means "cousin"
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Protestants think James is literally his brother by way of Mary and Joseph fucking
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