(August 21, 2021 at 11:29 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(August 21, 2021 at 9:53 am)Mashmont Wrote: The best evidence of God's existence are the incredibly great lives of His most ardent believers, which are the canonized saints of the Catholic Church.
You mean like Saint George when he killed that dragon - boy, was that incredible, or when St. Christopher carried baby Jesus over the river.
But the truth is most of the saints never existed and were just made up by Christians (lies, lies, and more lies)
Quote:St. Veronica
Ordinary people came to mangle the words “vera icon” into “Veronica.” In due course, “Veronica” came to refer, no longer to the cloth, but to the name of the woman who obtained it from Jesus.
St. Euphrosyne
It seems that medieval folk were fascinated by women successfully impersonating men to elevate their status in the sight of God. Modern scholarship dismisses Euphrosyne’s story as pious fiction and even concludes that St. Euphrosyne never existed.
St. Catherine Of Alexandria, St. Barbara, St. Alexius Of Rome, St. Eustace, St. George, St. Christopher...
And so on
https://listverse.com/2014/05/17/10-belo...ographies/
Let's talk about great saints like St. John Bosco who turned thousands of juvenile delinquent boys into productive citizens without using punishment as a tool. This is truly an amazing feat. And he did it through love, calm reasoned discussion, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and the Eurcharist.