The “Shroud of Turin” and the “Cult” of Relics

Purely on the basis of straightforward “consideration” of the “shroud of Turin” itself (as a physical object with certain characteristics), it is self-evident that the “shroud” is a manufactured object—made by a combination of processes, and produced in obvious sympathy with the long-standing anti-gnostic point of view of “official” (and, altogether, exoteric) Christianity.