Whether the Shroud is real or not is (or should be) irrelevant to both the faithful and the secular. What is of import here is the incessant attempt by the secular/anti-God forces to denigrate and deny everything that has to do with the Christian faith.
It’s the constant chipping away at the basic foundations of our society and our faith that I got out of this, and hundreds of articles regarding various relics and icons of primarily Catholic possession.
In a way, I see the secular West doing the exact same thing to the Christian faith as the “palestinians” are doing to Jewish artifacts in the areas of the Holy Land controlled by the muslims.
I don’t see how this argument is linked to the Shroud. For example God fearing Protestants do not believe (or should not) in relics and the shroud as a relic would be meaningless to them and the Shroud being debunked would have zero affect on them since they don’t accept such things as the Shroud as objects of veneration in the first place.