• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 days ago

    they are going to try and make him a fuckin Saint? I wonder which white nationalist religious wacko will try to have him canonized …

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      I saw some Republicans in Congress were calling him the 13th disciple of Jesus. There’s definitely an attempt to infuse religion into the mythology being constructed around him.

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        no and yes. I think the Christians that do it use the same rules for recognition but don’t require the Pope’s declaration

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          I can’t imagine most protestant denominations have the organizational and bureaucratic capacity for catholic sanctification. It looks like Anglicans kept the pre split saints and then created a new category of heroes and they seem to do their own thing for it. That’s the most similar protestant denomination to catholicism.

          It’s really hard to imagine a scenario where the baptists are organizing enough to do a trial where evidence for and against sainthood are presented. Also the concept of saints is entirely Tradition so it violates sola scriptura

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        He was an evangelical christian, and was very much against the previous pope. He called him a marxist, a heretic, etc.

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      He saw the people before him were thirsty and so He performed the miracle of becoming a fountain. Truly inspiring.