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There was a point where like thirty different churches claimed to own Christ's foreskin.
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My favorite part of Catholicism is all the body parts of saints in shrines and reliquaries. Fascinating
It's all so metal
I know!!! I went to an awesome ossuary in Italy that was just all skeletons everywhere. I wonder if I could get my skeleton added after I pass.
Modern Churches are so boring and bland.
No, we don't have other gods or images we pray to. Those are, uhm, saints that we, uh, honor.
They are just the god's buddies. They are just his advisors.
...That people pray to
I love how controversial saints are in Protestant-majority Christian societies because here the idea of praying to a saint that can pray better on your behalf is absolutely banal.
I’m not particularly religious but the idea that there are different patron role models to pray to or take as an example for different aspects of life is pretty fun compared to the sterile, unrecognizable (to us) depictions of Christianity we see from other places.
Protestants hate saints because they hate the idea that the Bible and its derivatives hold value as allegory. Having a saint of making sure your bread isn't moldy so you don't infest the village with hallucinations is far too grounded for them. If it isn't so abstract that only an insane person would believe it then what's even the point of faith?
I'm not a Christian, but I was raised protestant.
My understanding is that praying to anyone or anything besides God (or Jesus since they're one in the same) was blasphemous.
Which makes sense to me given what I know about Yahweh and his petty jealousy.
Yeah of course. They are prayer multipliers.
I'm willing to spot them the difference.
"This is a regular dude who got to do a modicum of humorous magic for proselytizing, then died in a really fucked-up way. You should ask him to put in a good word with J-dawg about fishing, mycology, or testicular torsion."
Christianity was the original soulslike
I mean, Blasphemous prolly didn’t exaggerate much.
Cool game! Have you played the 2nd one?
I’ve watched my wife play them both! I’ve got mobility issues in my hands that make anything more action-y than a JRPG not work out.
I'm going to end up not being able to play games eventually. My hands will fail me, my spine is cutting into my spinal cord. I hope when that happens I'll have someone to play games for me.
Sometimes, when it comes to survival horror games (which generally play a lot slower), even though I can play them, they’re much more approachable as a commentary-less playthrough on YouTube. That way, I can’t keep chickening out.
But fuuuuck, to know it’s coming, that’s particularly brutal. I hope somehow you’re given some crazy good sort of boon to compensate. You’re a good kid.
Thanks man, i appreciate that.
They do like souls