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There was a point where like thirty different churches claimed to own Christ's foreskin.
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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.