“people would just read and believe the Bible, they would not so easily be duped by such falsely purported artifacts as the Shroud of Turin being Jesus’ burial cloth.”
1. In RC, the Bible (a) isn’t read much and, if it is, (b) takes second or third place, behind words from men.
2. All of the shroud stuff: More fantasy. Probably started as a revenue-generating scheme.
“1. In RC, the Bible (a) isn’t read much and, if it is, (b) takes second or third place, behind words from men.”
Actually, we wrote the New Testament. And we know the Bible better than you do.
“2. All of the shroud stuff: More fantasy. Probably started as a revenue-generating scheme.”
Except there’s no evidence it’s a fantasy. It exists. It’s pretty darn hard to explain away. Just the evidence about the coins alone is hard to explain away: https://aleteia.org/2017/04/26/shroud-of-turin-coins-may-finally-have-been-identified/
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