Is the Shroud of Turin the Face of Christ?

While I dont think there is sufficient evidence to say with any confidence that the Shroud in question had to do with Jesus, this author does a very lackluster job argueing this from the scripture, missing the best arguement for not venerating relics; that it is a form of idolatry. He believes that Jesus facial and head hair would not have matched the image in the shroud. He gives a very stretched train of logic as to why, but does not reference any scripture that gives a description of jesus head or facial hair at the time of burial, and I dont think anyone who believes the shroud nonsense are going to come around because of a short, hasty blog post. It is not right to say "..this or that would be a certain way.." as if it were a fact, when it is only what we think is likely from incomplete information, about an ancient context, using a modern paradigm. It is as dangerous to read more than is really there as it is to leave out what we cant resolve.

The author makes inaccurate assumptions against the validity of the shroud, and then argues as if his assumptions were fact. For example: his claim that Jesus wouldn't have had long hair because it would have been a shame for a man to have long hair. Thus on this assumption he declares the shroud invalid. Has the author not seen pictures of the Chasidim with their long peyers (sidelocks)? Those sidelocks on Jesus would have appeared as long hair in an image like the Turin shroud.

I haven't read the whole article yet but it looks promising.