‘relics linked to him’ sounds strange for a boy that died 18 years ago
The whole thing is rather strange. I assume that there are many Catholics self aware enough to know that he clearly didn’t perform any miracles but just go along with it anyway.
This is just how it’s always worked. It was just easier to convince people to believe in miracles when we didn’t have explanations for everything and video cameras. The church is reaching for coincidences and calling them miracles because that’s the best they can do. I’m just surprised they are still trying to make saints and not just settling for Saint Classic.
Wait, do we think the other saints clearly performed miracles?
We’re talking about a religion where the son of God walked on water and fed five thousand people with five fish and two loaves of bread.
I think it’s easier to buy in to the fantasy when there are several hundreds of years between you and the so-called miracle though.
You have to remember that religious people don’t use the scientific method and that they see faith as a very virtuous characteristic.
Not that you didn’t already know it intellectually, but shit like this really pushes home how much of a scam Catholicism, and Christianity in general, really are. I mean they’re claiming this guy healed people? Over the internet? What’s the difference between this and those Faith healers that scam people all over the world?
I mean is this really a case where a bunch of old people think a kid is Magic because he can make the internet work?
There’s a local saint here and one of her “confirmed” miracles is that a guy with somewhat bad eyesight, but not so bad he couldn’t live a basically normal life, prayed to her and got 20/20 vision. Seriously.
Why are there all these middlemen to pray to? Why does Jesus need to delegate the power to cure mild astigmatism? Lol
Religion, flat earthers … humans. Fuskibg weird
