"Are you up to date on anything?"
Yep. Up to date on the numerous 'relics' used by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages to sucker dumb believers out of their money. They've all been found to be fake, or in the case of the 'incorruptible' mummies that were claimed to be 'saintly', a result of natural processes occurring in the geographic region around them.
I was raised Catholic, btw, so save your 'you're an anti-Catholic' bashing.
God isn't going to use a bunch of dumb trinkets to convey His message nor to prove His existence anyways. Sending his Son to be crucified and Resurrected was more than enough proof.
If you are familiar with Medieval relics then you should be familiar with how poor the quality of many, of not most, were. One of the best cases for the Shroud being legitimate is that it's far more accurate than it needs to be and far more accurate than it should be. It includes fine details not only of the effects crucificion and other wounds on a person but also details of a Jewish burial. If a Medieval forger created this relic out of wholecloth, so to speak, why is it so quirky and accurate? Why aren't there more relics like it?
"God isn't going to use a bunch of dumb trinkets to convey His message nor to prove His existence anyways."
LOL!
Like you would know what God thinks!