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Piers Morgan Wanted My Opinion on the Shroud of Turin

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

For some reason, Piers Morgan Uncensored asked me to debate the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. I'm not remotely qualified, so of course, I said yes.

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0:30.6

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0:36.6

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0:39.4

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0:42.1

This is the Thinking Atheist podcast, hosted by Seth Andrews.

0:51.6

I was just asked to be part of a debate about the shroud of Turin on Pierce Morgan uncensored.

1:05.8

Now, I can see you rolling your eyes because I did the same thing.

1:09.5

Peers Morgan. Really? Peers Morgan. I wrote a

1:14.6

substack about this which kind of addressed it all much more formally but I wanted to freestyle it

1:21.4

here on the show and talk about it and maybe play some sound bites so you can hear what it was all

1:25.8

about. But imagine me, I get up in the morning and I open my email and it's a producer with

1:32.7

Pierce Morgan uncensored, reaching out and saying, we would like an atheist's perspective on

1:37.7

the shroud of Turin.

1:38.7

Now, there's this resurgence of the story in the news after a Brazilian digital graphics expert to analyze the shroud,

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