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"The shroud is not an idol, and it is not worshipped."

Idol: n. an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.

Looks like to me that it is simply an extension of the little plastic Jesus statues and all the other paraphenalia that some rely on in their prayers to God and Christ.

If "evidence" such as the Shroud, is necessary then it seems to me that faith is hollow. True faith requires no proof.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"(Heb.11:1).

91 posted on 10/05/2009 12:12:49 PM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)

Idol: n. an image or other material object representing a deity to which religious worship is addressed.

Who is addressing worship to the Shroud of Turin?

98 posted on 10/05/2009 12:17:26 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)