Let's say (because of present good reason to) the Shroud Of Turin is and always has been a whopping big fake (if such a GOOD fake nobody can be accused since its day of taking it as authentic).

There is no Bible prophecy or word of God or Christ or anybody else in Abrahamic faiths that such a Shroud or "convincer" after the earthly time of Christ would come as a "sign". Could be why for about 1400 years before any Shroud, people heard from, of, or about Jesus and decided to follow His teachings or at least not be upset by them...on the strength of all arguments to His existence and credibility before, during, and after ANY real or imagined "relic" well afterward.

Thank you Italian atheists (for real!) who funded the current Shroud study; nothing to shake the bedrock of Abrahamic faiths, Christianity in particular...especially since other scientists especially atheist keep proving the first-of-first matter could not have created itself anyway.

Now, I chuckle at and pray for peace for atheists and others demanind that relgion be boiled in oil once and for all, or that the concept of "evil" wouldn't exist for anyone if we could boil away all God talk, and the like...our current times show what happens when that mentality is plied regardless of its popularity or deconstruction of all economic/social paradigms there when faith ISN'T ransacked, and the poor people telling us why we should hate God in any reference, allow evil to rule us body and world, blah blah...such people NEVER tell us what's going to be better for us once such goal is completed. It's like the poor misguided souls don't even notice the societal circular logic attached to their zeal to end religious, or in fact any, standard of ethics.