>Tell us, Reverend. What have you done to inspire the hearts of men?
>Uh...I had the vestibule re-carpeted.
>I've appeared in over eight thousand visions and that's the lamest reply I've ever heard!
>Tell us, Reverend.
>Tell us, Reverend. What have you done to inspire the hearts of men?
>Uh...I had the vestibule re-carpeted.
>I've appeared in over eight thousand visions and that's the lamest reply I've ever heard!
always fun when something actually bothers to parody Christians on reasonable terms instead of just jumping for the boring old "religion le bad because uhhh look we made the priest a nonce" and leaving it at that
amen
if their church is Protestant why the fug do they have saints images on the windows?
To make the joke work
Either they're a branch of protestantism that venerates the Saints, or the writer was Catholic and indulging in some wilful chauvinism.
>or the writer was Catholic and indulging in some wilful chauvinism.
Was a guy named Donick Cary, but I have no idea if he was Catholic or not.
do protestants not have saints?
The saints is one of the biggest disagreements between Protestants and Catholics. Protestants view it as worshiping false idols and Catholics see it as asking a chosen friend of God to help them.
Isn't that the Pope's job?
The Pope leads the Church and is believed to be the man closest to God on earth. But I think what you’re talking about is confession. Any priest is believed to also be in close communication with God and that admitting one’s own sins is vital for forgiveness by God. Protestants don’t believe this at all and think their sins are only between them and God.
People don’t really confess to Saints. They more or less pray to them to hit up God for stuff. Saints are also known for certain things and need to preform 3(I think?) miracles on earth to become Saints. What they preform is what they’re known for so people pray to specific Saints for specific things.
Religion is weird. Interesting, but weird, and it's weird how some branches have ideas that make sense to me and also ideas that sound dumb.
Not all protestants have a problem with saints. Presbyterians, for instance, technically honor saints even if they don't care that much about them, in my experience. A lot of their churches are named after one.
Most of the original Euro-Protestant denominations don't have an issue with them, but they don't hold them up as highly as Catholics.
Anglicans have them, and Episcopalians and Methodists since they came out of Anglicansism, and I think Luthrans sort of have them. Also obviously the Church of Latter-day saints (aka Mormons) have them but I don't know if they are considered protestants.
most Springfieldians practice a made-up sect of protestantism based around wanting the right to go to church with wet hair.
which they latter rescinded
>Bartholomew as beheaded
But Bartholomew was the one who was flayed alive.
I seriously don't understand people when they say Christianity is boring, it's a metal as frick religion.
Since its one of the most popular, its sorta seen as the vanilla choice at a surface level. Never mind the fact that one of their core values is drinking the blood of their most important figure.
Most of the hardcore shit in Christendom was watered down by rubes and puritans in the 1800's responding to heavy drinkers and individualistic cowboy types, though most relligions are changed from their original meaning when going to different civilizations anyway.
most occult works worth a damn come from christian or christian inspired sources, the philosophers stone was what newton spent most of his life trying to make. Wiccan are made up hippy bullshit and the church of Satan are reddit atheists.
according to Simpson's wiki Presbylutheranism broke away from the Catholic Church in the 20th century which is pretty late all things considered. So they probably keep a lot of Catholic stuff