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[โ€“] 98 points 1 year ago (10 children)

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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  • [โ€“] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [โ€“] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Was he Catholic? Or do protestants even have saints?

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] 12 points 1 year ago

    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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