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    "There seems a general belief that the facts of the Shroud prove more than they really do and You Know Who lies at the end of the trail of breadcrumbs. Fearing this, some believe it is highly rational to deny the breadcrumbs. We need only ask ourselves what the reaction would have been had the Shroud been discovered in the modern era, and came with no religious claims at all attached to it. We might treat it no differently than we treat the weirdly-preserved bodies of the ruins of Pompeii."

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    • Coming down squarely in the We-don't-know camp is of course the Catholic Church.  She points out quite reasonably that an object need not be factual to be useful in focusing the mind on veneration.
    • But neither is she prepared to dismiss the Shroud tout court.  Even if it is a weird work of art, it is still a valuable and important indicator of a lost technology.
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