[Northern Yankee]

What I find amazing is that the Shroud is there for those who choose to believe.

If there are those who don't, so be it. But why would those who don't believe want to ridicule something others in the Christian faith see as sacred?

[Victoria Delsoul]

But why would those who don't believe want to ridicule something others in the Christian faith see as sacred?

Perhaps, we reflect our shortcomings through comments like that - at the end, it says more about us than about the subject in question... who knows.

[Conservative til I die]

If there are those who don't, so be it. But why would those who don't believe want to ridicule something others in the Christian faith see as sacred?

Because the usual arguments against the Shroud, even when they posit that it may be real, are just an excuse to bash Christians in general, and/or Catholics specifically, depending on what their particular agenda is.