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SarahD

(1,732 posts)
Fri May 31, 2024, 04:56 PM May 2024

Isn't the saint business getting a little awkward?

Some of the miracles attributed to candidates seem a little sketchy. And we eventually wised up to the fact that Mother Theresa was fundamentally a rather nasty person. I guess they need to keep on producing saints because it's just part of the deal.
https://m.jpost.com/christianworld/article-804505

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Isn't the saint business getting a little awkward? (Original Post) SarahD May 2024 OP
Father Sarduci always said "you needa three miracles!" captain queeg May 2024 #1
I finally began to understand that the saint business depends mostly on good publicity rurallib May 2024 #2
Only for the last 400 years. Voltaire2 May 2024 #3
Science makes the world and religion smaller edhopper May 2024 #4
Personally I think they should go to the alter of the newest Saint to pray. Saint Fu state of stupid May 2024 #5
In Scene 2 of George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" soldierant May 2024 #6

rurallib

(63,135 posts)
2. I finally began to understand that the saint business depends mostly on good publicity
Fri May 31, 2024, 05:02 PM
May 2024

Theresa had lots of publicity.

I often wonder if Jesus would have been promoted to gawd status had it not been for Paul

Voltaire2

(14,632 posts)
3. Only for the last 400 years.
Fri May 31, 2024, 05:18 PM
May 2024

Miracles got much rarer and less awe inspiring after science got in the way.

soldierant

(7,790 posts)
6. In Scene 2 of George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan"
Fri May 31, 2024, 10:16 PM
May 2024

there is an exchange between the Archbishop and LeTremouille (a high ranking soldier) about what a miracle is which is IMO well worth reading (or re-reading), regardless which side you personally are on.

(snip)

LA TRÉMOUILLE. Even when they are frauds, do you mean?

THE ARCHBISHOP. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

LA TRÉMOUILLE [scratching his neck in his perplexity] Well, I suppose as you are an archbishop you must be right. It seems a bit fishy to me. But I am no churchman, and dont understand these matters.

(snip)

And the Archbishop's argument actually gets even stronger from there.

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