Talk:Mystery:Did Jesus Build the Loretto Spiral Staircase?

That is a mighty big claim

The fact that it is a engineering marvel doesn't mean that someone didn't do it.

This boarders on, but being a Roman Catholic chapel makes it directly relic veneration and tourism (from which Rome has historically benefited immensly); at one point relic veneration and tourism single handedly saved the city after it had near vanished off the map with its population decimated by disease and economy in tatters).

Edward Gibbon records:

"The Romans were attracted to the tombs of the martyrs and apostles; and the bishops of Rome converted the pious offerings of the pilgrims into a source of wealth and magnificence."

"The claims of superstition were transformed into the instruments of policy and interest; the object of religious pilgrims was to visit the tombs of the apostles and martyrs..."

If we simply assert everything that should attract enquiry and scientific processes into a matter of faith, the mind is dulled by the abrigation of due processes. It is also sufficient at times to simply say: "I don't have enough data."

The question I would like to ask is: "Who benefits from this claim?" and the answer is vasty similar to the history above.

In some ways it is little different from the Muslims telling the story of Abraham levitating on a stone near the Kabbla as he used it to aid his construction of the temple. And no, none of us were there to say what actually happend and perform scientific processes, but some skepticism is healthy.

Regards, --AnthonyPvanDuyn (talk) 22:02, November 9, 2026 (EST)