Stupid things religious people say

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The Catholic display of corpses is creepy, but when it's a kid's body, it seems particularly morbid to bring schoolkids to see and pray to it.

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized on April 27.

https://apnews.com/article/italy-saint-c...3733fd671d

When I was in sixth grade, my first year in Catholic school, most of our music class was learning funeral dirges.  If a family wanted a children's choir to sing at their loved one's funeral, we were marched across the schoolyard to the church and sang those dirges from the balcony.  Quite festive and a hell of a way to learn the ins and outs of Catholic school life. 

Wakes were a big thing in town too.  I was marched past more dead bodies than I care to think about, some of them people I didn't even know when they were alive.  Then there was the sitting in the funeral home for a couple days when my grandparents died because our family was so small we had to bring in the grandkids to meet the mourners.

Super creepy but also expected.