"Laughing At Religion" Meme Thread

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Christianity has hundreds of "feast days" that celebrate ridiculous things that never happened.

When I was about 6, our class teacher told us all about St Lawrence. He was barbequed alive, over hot coals. At one point he said to his executioner: "You can turn me over no, I'm done on that side"   I had nightmares. Mum went over to see the mother superior, again.

My favourite saint is St Joseph of Cupertino, who levitated.  A "remarkably unclever person" (thick as a fucking brick), it was his best thing.

Joseph of Copertino (Italian: Giuseppe da Copertino; 17 June 1603 – 18 September 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. He was said to have been remarkably unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstatic visions that left him gaping.[1]: iii  Joseph began to experience ecstatic visions as a child, which were to continue throughout his life, and made him the object of scorn. He applied to the Conventual Franciscan friars, but was rejected due to his lack of education. He then pleaded with them to serve in their stables. After several years of working there, he had so impressed the friars with the devotion and simplicity of his life that he was admitted to their Order, destined to become a , in 1625.

Joseph of Cupertino - Wikipedia

The Italians are crazy about their saints. When visiting Italy, almost every church I saw had a body part of some saint. Some had an entire saint, mouldering away in faded finery in a glass case. Enough to puta bloke off his lunch. 

Whilst in Italy I learned that there are two churches claiming to have the head of St John The Baptist. The bloke who told me came over all unnecessary when I offered a perfectly reasonable explanation. (certainly as reasonable as claims of a levitating saint)  I said it was obvious to me; one of the heads was of John The Baptist when he was a younger man.