The Shroud of Turin

[Alcon]

Seriously, if the Shroud is real, that's lame.  It's supposed to be about faith.  If the Shroud is real, then obviously we should all be Christian.

I may be missing something obvious here, but why would that be?

It doesn't seem to me that the existence of a shroud would 'prove' Christianity either way.  Prove that Jesus existed, maybe...

what am I missing?

[Alcon]

Seriously, if the Shroud is real, that's lame.  It's supposed to be about faith.  If the Shroud is real, then obviously we should all be Christian.

I may be missing something obvious here, but why would that be?

It doesn't seem to me that the existence of a shroud would 'prove' Christianity either way.  Prove that Jesus existed, maybe...

what am I missing?

The idea is that his face was burned onto the cloth during the resurrection.  Since that's obviously not possible, if it happened anyway, apparently Christianity is true, so it defeats the purpose of faith.

A face couldn't have come to be imprinted on the shroud in some other way...?

And how would we verify it's Jesus's face?  It's not like "burned in by the force of GOD" is exactly something we can determine scientifically.

It still seems like it would require a lot of faith still, but Christianity has always been a little vague on the balance between "look at the obvious miracles of faith" and "ithat's the magic of faith" anyway.