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  That old bit of cloth no more shows the face of Jesus than my socks represent an advanced alien culture. But what it does show is just how blindly people are willing to believe whatever claptrap they're told in order to reinforce a religious doctrine. Let's assume a scientist shows the world a bit of metallic cloth with a strange impression on it and claims it is of alien origin. The amount of scrutiny, questioning, and suspicion it would have to go through to be "proven" would be immense - and quite rightly so. But yet again the religious are willing to swallow ANYTHING without the proof, and in fact any questioning or scrutiny is frowned upon. I saw that documentary too and remember the massive resistance that the scientific community faced when trying to obtain a sample for testing.
  
  Sorry guys but to me that shroud is just a worthless bit of old rag which is no more than an artistic curiosity at best. And it is just one more religious artifact that is accepted by believers without any need for proof. And just to push the point a bit further, there is no actual real proof that Jesus was even real in a historical context let alone a religious one, apart from a series of texts made many years after his apparent sacrifice by people who never even knew him. (Anyone wishing to challenge that view must at least present something which proves me wrong rather than simply disagreeing with it) And the shroud certainly does not constitute proof of anything other than the sheer gullibility of the religious.
  
  And as for time machines - if such a machine existed, just about every religious authority would ban / suppress trips to religious landmark moments because they would very likely be discredited. For example, it would be proven that Jesus (if he existed) never walked on water or whatever. You get the idea. Such events would be banned from exposure to truth-seekers with a time machine as it would undermine the mythology that all religion is founded upon.
  
  But hey I can't help being an atheist, it's the way god made me.

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