“Is your beef with the inauthenticity of this particular relic or with cherishing of relics and heirlooms of any sort, including authentic relics?”
Find where I didn’t say I would be thrilled if the shroud could be authenticated.
“Find where I didn’t say I would be thrilled if the shroud could be authenticated.”
Then why the blanket statement that my point about the natural desire for tangible heirlooms is invalid because such heirlooms are fakes from China?
And why do you refuse to engage the actual evidence and hide behind generalizing bluster about “the best evidence shows it’s a fake.”
If you’d be pleased to know it was authenticated, you are going to need to refute the immense evidence that it is authentic rather than merely repeat your belief that it is fake.
You are not really eager to see it authenticated when reveal such a hopelessly unsophisticated awareness of the evidence on both sides. Prove me wrong. Offer your evidence for it’s inauthenticity. Give me some actual facts that support your conviction.