Why an Atheist Thinks the Shroud of Turin is the Real Deal

The List the Boggles the Mind

For one thing, the mention of the linen wrappings is among a list of items that boggles the mind of those with a modern worldview: the head of John the Baptist complete with hair and beard, fragments left over from the five loaves and two fishes, a large piece of the true cross, the pillar to which Jesus was tied during his scourging and the whip that was used. Either we have a whole bunch of relics with some of them being fake or somebody is making all this up. It doesn’t matter if it was Alexios who did so, if it was an enhancement to a real letter, or if it was in its entirely a drummed up advertising piece. If reference to linens is real, its repute is tarnished by association.