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

Trusting Our Own Worldviews

We trust whatever our worldview is and we intuitively trust whatever we hear or read that resonates with it. It is our view of the way things work in the world: the way things are and the way things have been. It may well be, at least in the Western world, that we are intellectually conditioned to be skeptical of the shroud by the largely-shared, modernistic worldview. The shroud just doesn’t make sense to many of us. Dead men, after all, don’t normally leave images of themselves on burial cloths. And we know only too well that Medieval Europe was rife with fake relics. We suppose, without much thought, that the shroud must be just another fake relic. And so we doubt that the shroud is authentic. It just doesn’t make sense.