Shroud of Turin - made of whole cloth?

Would you believe it? The Shroud of Turin is a fake. Really!

Yep. Of course you already knew that. Way back in 1988 scientists, using radiocarbon dating, proved it was made sometime in the 13th or 14th centuries. It is a hoax! That did not, of course, dissuade "true" believers who are not bothered by facts or the truth.

You probably also know that this faux shroud is supposed to show "a crucified man, complete with blood seeping out of nailed hands and feet, and believers say Christ's image was recorded on the linen fibers at the time of his resurrection." (AOL News).

Hee, hee. All this from a man who most likely didn't exist in the first place!


Just recently, a team of scientists led by a chemistry professor at the University of Pavia in Italy, were able to duplicate the shroud using a variety of processes (materials and methods available in the 14th century).

In fact, the shroud was "discovered" somewhere around 1360. A French knight had possession. Hmmm. Where had it been before that? No one knows. It just appeared out of thin air.

Now the Vatican, that repository of ignorance and superstition, keeps the shroud locked away and brings it out only when it needs to entice a bunch of people to Rome to fill its coffers with Euros. It was last displayed in 2000 and over a million of the ignorant faithful showed up to pay their respects (pun intended).


The Roman Church has since its inception created phony saints, phony bones, and god knows how many other relics to keep the ignorant and superstitious in line and give them reason to continue to bow and scrape and send money.

These are people who "believe," and science be damned, they're gonna keep on believing the shroud is real.

But one wonders about this god in which they believe. Why couldn't he or she have put a name tag on the damn thing saying "Jesus was buried in this garment"? If god is omnipotent as the Roman church claims, that would have been a piece of cake.

Or, when the legendary Yeshua walked out of the tomb, why didn't this omnipotent god have some non-believing artists available who could have touched him and talked to him and drawn his portrait, noting on their work the date and time? The Roman authorities could have recorded the incident like they recorded every other incident. That would have better served to verify the resurrection than some old raggedy shroud that was created out of whole cloth in the 14th century!

Maybe Jesus didn't exist. Or maybe the Roman god is not really omnipotent. Maybe he's impotent.