Christmas: CNN presents The Shroud of Turin is REAL I tellz ya!!! REAL!!!

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3. Shroudies! The Shroud Crowd!

I'm assuming this thing was - much like the coming week's turkey many of us will be eating - a re-run. Of the CNN turkey "Finding Jesus" originally shown back in March 2015.

Great review of it:

Disappointing. This is, I believe, the most appropriate way to start my review of the recent CNN documentary on the Shroud of Turin. After 25 years of reading books, watching films and writing books and articles on this presumed relic of Christ, I am still surprised to listen to the very same popular quackery and pseudoscience passed off as rock solid scholarly researches...

The burial shrouds of Jesus number around 40. All of them were authentic, of course. The most famous shrouds were those of Aachen, Halberstadt, Hannover and Mainz (Germany), Arles, Besançon, Cadouin, Aix-en-Provence, Bayonne, Cahors, Paris, Reims, Annecy, Soissons, Carcassonne and Compiègne (France), Yohnannavank (Armenia), Constantinople, Enxobregas (Portugal), Saint John in Lateran (Rome), Einsiedeln (Switzerland).

And this comment explains why so many Buy-bull experts REALLY appear on these shows:

Having years of experience on the shroud question, tombs, and living here in Israel, I asked one of those academics involved, why he would become involved in such a thing in which every archaeologist knows it's medieval. His reply 'why not, its a free trip to the US'.

http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/2015/03/lom398011.shtml