Agreed. The surface nature of the phenomenon. The photonegative properties of the image, the coin over the anatomical right eye including the rare but historically documented misspelling of “Caesar,” (frankly I can’t see the purported coin over the left eye,) the depiction of Christ nude when he was never depicted nude in art, the wounds in the wrists vs in the hands as usually depicted but which could not support a crucified body, etc etc etc. the blow off line “it’s art” can’t withstand any good faith analysis of this extraordinary artifact
Yep. I’m not Catholic and I think all relics are foolishness. But once you become familiar with the very unusual characteristics of the shroud you really begin to wonder.
One of the NASA researchers who got to inspect the Shroud is a Jewish guy who certainly had no dog in the fight. And IIRC he became so convinced of its authenticity that he set up the website where all of the info on the Shroud gets collected.