[HerrBlucher]

I’m surprised by the Christians who seem excessively skeptical in light of the large number of disinterested witnesses, and the amount of documentation.

Its an interesting phenomenon. When I showed a video to a group of Christians that documents the very compelling scientific evidence of the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin and the supernatural event associated with it, at least half of them behaved the same way. They simply rejected it out of hand without any counter explanation of the evidence. A few claimed that the scientific evidence was somehow harmful to faith...huh?????

Weird.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— Weird -—

They’re probably conflicted between scientific naturalism, which is taught in school and which is in the air we breathe, and religion, however that term is defined in their minds.

In their minds, faith, or the supernatural, and “science,” or the natural world, are completely separated, and cannot overlap, the miracles recorded in Scripture, and existing miraculous phenomena (like the Shroud) notwithstanding.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It seems that someone who is a metaphysical materialist, by the very definition of the term, is incapable of accepting the evidence of his or other people's senses.

Another case of "the Narrative" trumping "stuff that actually happened." Rather a paradox.

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