Let's conveniently forget the religious frauds that have been discovered to be frauds by - science!
Like the cloth that Jesus was supposedly wrapped in? Fake!
Examples of faked religious icons:
The Shroud is merely the most prominent of Western relics, which prior to the French Revolution included
* around 14 versions of the Holy Prepuce (at Antwerp, Coulombs, Chartres, Charroux, Metz, Conques, Langres, Anvers, Fécamp, Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne, Hildesheim, Santiago de Compostela and Calcata)
* three Holy Umbilical Cords,
* four Spears of Longinus,
* three Crowns of Thorns,
* a large number of Holy Toenail clippings,
* the rods used by Moses and Aaron,
* leftovers from the feeding of the 5,000,
* three arms of St Francis Xavier,
* the shirt of John the Baptist (and a mere three of his heads),
* phials of milk from the Virgin Mary,
* quantities of Christ's blood,
* His milk teeth
* some 204 bits of babies massacred by Herod
and what Calvin in one of his more irascible moments described as enough authentic nails from the Crucifixion to fill several barrels.
