By you. If you exalt it above any other piece of cloth, if you revere it as a holy relic, then you are worshipping it.
Absolutely false. Why would you falsely claim I worship something?
“If you exalt it above any other piece of cloth, if you revere it as a holy relic, then you are worshipping it.”
Uhhhh, NO. You’re wrong. Do a little theological study on the meaning of the words “revere” and “worship”.
Stuff and nonsense.
Then John the Evangelist is by your definition an idol-worshiper. The passage in the Gospel of John about the empty tomb darn sure “exalts” the burial cloths. It gives more space to them than it does to Joseph the adoptive father of Jesus or to thre-fourths of the apostles.
Maybe you ought to start reading your Bible. It suggests that the earliest Christians venerated the burial cloths of Jesus.
That doesn’t prove that the Shroud in Turin is one of those burial cloths—plenty of other evidence supports that claim.
But it blows out of the water you claim that exalting a piece of cloth is worshiping the piece of cloth.
Your quarrel is with the Gospel-writer. Take it up with him, if you are such hot stuff.
“It gives more space to them than it does to Joseph the adoptive father of Jesus or to thre-fourths of the apostles.”
Correction. There is more space given to Joseph. But the cloths receive more space than many of the apostles. Indeed, more space than Peter’s wife (who is never mentioned but whose existence is properly inferred from the mention of Peter’s mother-in-law. Yet, on the basis of the existence of Peter’s unmentioned wife, an immense edifice of married apostles has been built.
I’d say the mention of the burial cloths exalts them, compared to a lot that never gets mentioned in the gospels. What happened to Joseph after Luke ch. 2?