“You don’t read what I wrote...”
Check.
According to that which I do read, the shroud has been handled, fondled, minced and scorched by incompetent church officials, the benighted devoted, investigators, scientists and such since its mysterious appearance in the late 1300s. Granted, the shroudkeepers have been more careful with it as of late, but very little trustworthy material discovery on the shroud has been done, or will ever be done. It’s compromised as evidence, and as a subject of research because of a lost trail of custody, and because of its history of venerable display for venal purpose. And the recent radiocarbon dating, with either bungled or sabotaged sampling, or a medieval-source finding, is just icing on the cupcake.
Give it up Sword, or give up on me. You seem (to me) angrily irrational in your chapter-and-verse Shroud History recitations, and you’ll never change me, or even reach me. I believe you may be sometimes making yourself appear somewhat foolish trying to defend the church’s dirty linen, and trying to figuratively beat what you call sense into me. Give it up.
So, you admit YOUR dishonesty in discussion... And your trolling.