Saints in Alters?

[ThatMuslimGuy]

Thanks for all the replies. And that st.catherine picture is creepy as hell.

[Minimalist]

I've been there. Went to Siena during a trip to Italy in 1996. You should see the fucking thing in person. THAT'S creepy.

Xtianity is a death cult. What can I say.

[jonb]

So what would you say to these






http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/09-05/...urope.html

[pocaracas]

Ah, we have one of those here in Portugal... Been there, done that... and yes, it's creepy.

I guess the church (under which people were buried - there were no cemeteries) just ran out of space to put dead people, so they... err... refurbished.

As for the relics, I guess they mostly arise due to people desiring to be close to actual saints, or something like that. Hoping some of that sanctity rubs on to them. People are weird.

[The Grand Nudger]

Plague cathedrals, gorgeous.

[jonb]

Most old churches have an Ossuary to store bones. Because christians believed at the second coming the dead would arise in the flesh from their bones.
And you thought Zombie Jesus was a joke!

[Darkstar]

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Fun fact:

From the 12 apostles, there were 16 burried in Germany during medieval times.

And 23 burried in France.

That`s because the catholic church could demand massive cashfunds from those who made a pilgremage to these places.

Capitalism creates saints bitches!!!

One of the reason why Luther started his reformation.

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Nail (relic)

Relics that are claimed to be the Holy Nails with which Christ was crucified are objects of veneration among some Christians, i.e., among Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox.

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Very little reliance can be placed upon the authenticity of the thirty or more holy nails which are still venerated, or which have been venerated until recent times, in such treasuries as that of Santa Croce in Rome, or those of Venice, Aachen, Escurial, Nuremberg, Prague, etc. Probably the majority began by professing to be facsimiles which had touched or contained filings from some other nail whose claim was more ancient. It is conceivable that imitations in this way may have come in a very brief space of time to be reputed originals.

Bolding mine

Well, a lot of faith is already required to be religious, why not just make the delusion that much more obvious? They could all be real, I mean, with god anything is possible, right?

[catfish]

I still haven't found specific verses, but I did come across this:
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/l...recnum=645

"You can't store Grandma on the mantel or scatter your father's ashes across the 13th green of his favorite golf course," advises Father Peter Polando, canon lawyer and pastor of St. Matthias Parish in Youngstown, Ohio. "The Church has strong feelings about the fact that this body has been a temple of the Holy Spirit and requires a proper burial as a result."