[aruanan]

Um, are you Desdemona? Is she(?) your puppet? Why didn’t you jump in, all “Do my work for me” when blackpacific asked sonic109 for specifics on the churches’ many, many previous false relics and hoaxes? Shoe on the other foot now? And are you ignoring the last sentence of my first post?

You appear to be in the habit (no pun intended) of overlooking things. I was responding to a single post I saw under "recent posts." I wasn't reading through the entire thread to get to that post and, therefore, aware of everything everybody had said in response to everything else everyone else had said up to that point.

[oldfart]

This post is from another thread on the same subject. It wasn’t answered there and it probably won’t be answered here either.

First, let me assure everyone that I do believe the Shroud to be authentic.

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Second, let me ask those who doubt: Who benefits from faking such a thing? Someone, somewhere had to make something off such a monumental forgery, otherwise there’s no reason to do it. If some talented painter faked it, who paid him, and why? Even if some medieval artist painted it (which I doubt) why would he do it and why not take credit for his work?

Once the doubters answer those questions I’ll entertain suggestions that the Shroud is a fake - not before.

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Anyone?

[flowerplough]

Right, you don’t always read the thread, got it. You were responding to a single post you saw under “recent posts”, but I should have known that. My fault. I’m apparently in the habit of overlooking things like that, eh? And are you also still overlooking the last sentence of my first post?

Doubledown throwdown, yo. C-14 Retest,

Winner

Takes

All.

Too bad Turin Cathedral, once bitten, twice shy, won’t risk their precious Shroud again.