Do you spend more of your time contemplating the shroud than you do contemplating God?
Sure! But are we heading into a game of semantics or priorities machinations? We all have our talents.
I have a friend who is a Jesuit priest; a man of great faith, very pious and very devout. He says a brief mass every morning at 6am. He tells me that his final prayerful words as he leave the church each morning are: “I’ve got things to do now, God, so I’ll see you tomorrow if you can spare me a few more minutes.” The rest of the day he does God’s work and forgets about worship. He tells me he is so conditioned to doing what he does that he doesn’t even think about God until the next day.
That is sort of the way I am with the Shroud.
Dan