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\u2026not a painting, not a scorch, not a photograph.<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s cuz it\u2019s the real thing. Challenge to Skeptics: If it\u2019s medieval forgery made by and for primitive suckers then get with the program. We live in the 21st century. There\u2019s nothing technological a medieval could do that we can\u2019t do ten times better and faster. So make another one. \u00a0But do it using the 14th century tech you say created this. \u00a0And don\u2019t give me this piece of carob on the right\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

$\"\"$ <\/p>\n

,,,and call it chocolate. \u00a0If that thing on the right is a \u201creproduction\u201d of the Shroud then Justin Bieber is Enrico Caruso.<\/p>\n

Of course, there may be a naturalistic cause for the Shroud, as Mike Flynn attempts to argue here<\/a>. \u00a0If so, I have no big issues with that. \u00a0I merely note that it is certainly a teensy bit\u00a0lucky that this purely natural thing only happened to the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth out of all the people who have ever died in the history of the world.<\/p>\n

Mike Flynn also does yeoman work tracing a route for the Shroud from the burial chamber of Joseph of Arimathea to 14th century Europe.<\/a><\/p>\n

Not that Catholic faith rests on \u00a0the Shroud. \u00a0Millions of Christians have lived and died never so much as having heard of, let alone seen, it. \u00a0But such grace notes are kindnesses from a God who, under carefully controlled laboratory conditions and despite advice from the finest ideologues money can buy, does whatever he feels like.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"