Shredding the Shroud

The Shroud of Turin has been a tourist attraction since the 13th century when a few towns claimed to have it.

Eventually one landed at the Vatican, which was relic and indulgence central until Luther nailed his puritanical papers to the door.

 

In any case, this cloth, which is not like anything from the 1st century but fairly common a pattern and material in the 13th has been the object of a lot of attention in a grey area of being presented as proof but not actually claimed as such.

 

In any event, you don’t need a lot of science to debunk it. Just look at the silly thing.

 

 

A really excellent explanation about the body proportions being of a deformed person at best and as I noted, apparently with no depth to them at all – is here:

http://www.gaydeceiver.com/religion/turin/

and here: http://infidels.org/kiosk/article/the-shroud-of-turin-the-great-gothic-art-fraud-because-if-its-real-the-brain-of-jesus-was-the-size-of-a-protohumans-815.html

 

as for how it was made

 

an acid and then toasted

 

like kids using lemon juice to write secret messages and using a candle to brown and reveal the text

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/10/07/italy.turin.shroud/

 

 

I think the most annoying thing is the fallacy of appealing to the ancients.

like people centuries ago were not as brutal, cruel and out for themselves as we continue to be today

 

and clinging to ancient beliefs like religion, keeps us that way

 

 

money for nothing and your altar boys for free