Eric Vanden Eykel
Ph.D. Christian Origins, Associate Professor of Religious Studies @ Ferrum College. Black Lives Matter. Views expressed here are my own, and do not reflect the views of my employer.
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- I wrote a piece on the Shroud of Turin in 2024, and it's proven to be one of the more enraging things that I've written. At least once a week I get some variety of hate mail about it.
- For the record, I consider arguments for this artifact's antiquity to be on the same level as arguments for the flatness of the earth. They are nonsensical, and they only appear to make sense if you are willing to ignore or dismiss the findings of actual scientists and historians.
- What’s striking isn’t disagreement (which is expected and necessary in scholarship) but the refusal to engage actual evidence. Radiocarbon dating, textile analysis, and provenance are not “opinions.” Treating them as optional because they’re inconvenient is the antithesis of critical thinking.
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