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How a 15-Year-Old Gamer Became the Patron Saint of the Internet (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by oleorun to c/weirdnews

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“It’s a beautiful thing that for the first time in history you can see a saint dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sweatshirt. That’s a great message,” Father Carlos Acácio Gonçalves Ferreira, the shrine’s rector, said at the time. A Franciscan monk based at the tomb, noted that “many young people” were visiting.

Now get rid of the homophobia, sex abuse scandals, sexism, and anti-choice bullshit, mmkay?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Umm, Aaron Schwartz is the patron saint of the internet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah this is weird. If anything I just feel bad the kid never lived a full life. It seems weird to me you could pray to some dead person, and then something good happens, that person is automatically blessed after like the 3rd incident? Is God not a jealous God in Catholicism?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

something good happens

Specifically, a miracle, a term reserved by the Catholic Church basically only for the most inexplicable good medical outcomes, which ⅔ of independent experts must agree on. Two miracles must happen (or 1 for martyrs) for someone to qualify for sainthood, and it's still quite a process after that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but doesnt that sound like a system rife with holes? What happens if I pray to my dead dog Snickers and get 3 miracles? Is she a saint? Maybe its just culture shock

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The Catholic Church gets final say to what a miracle is and who becomes a saint. They prefer "false negatives" to "false positives" because their reputation could be compromised. As a result, the investigation is surprisingly rigorous. A ⅔ majority of diverse doctors, including atheists, must agree that there is no possible medical explanation.

There is a recent video by Half as Interesting about this, and many other sources. Please don't bother me with this; I'm not comfortable defending the church I have happily exited.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

*Voluntarily defends catholic church

"Please dont bother me with this"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You replied to a decent explanation with a dumb proposition instead of looking anything up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't drag you into this comment section